Answer all questions in complete English sentences and use proper APA citation when appropriate

Paper 3 (MilDVE Secondary Analysis 2014)

Sherman, L. W. and Harris, H. M. (2014). Increased death rates of domestic violence victims from

arresting vs. warning suspects in the Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment (MilDVE). Journal of

Experimental Criminology.

Instructions: Answer all questions in complete English sentences and use proper APA citation

when appropriate. Questions 1 to 6 are worth 16.7 points each.

1. In your own words, state the main research questions in Sherman and Harris (2014)?

2. State the main independent variables? Were any of the independent variables manipulated? Were there any unbalanced covariates and what are they? (Hint: see table 1, look for p-values < 0.10)

3. What are the main dependent variables? Discuss how they were measured.

4. Discuss in detail the data corpus that Sherman and Harris (2014) employed in their secondary analysis.

5. What is the role of random assignment in their study? Please discuss. Define Intention-to-Treatment (ITT) analysis. Try your best to explain why, Sherman and Harris employed ITT analysis in their study.

6. Discuss in detail the findings of the Sherman and Harris (2014) study.