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Secondary analysis |
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Data collected by other researchers are often used to address new research questions |
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Content analysis |
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Systematic study of messages – can be applied to virtually any form of communication |
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Crime hot spots |
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geographic areas and times of data that signal concentrations of various types of crime |
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Manifest content |
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Latent content |
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Hybrid source |
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| combines the collection of new data – through observation or interviews – with day to day criminal justice agency activities |
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What are the three different types of agency records? |
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- Published statistics
- Nonpublic agency records
- New data collected by agency staff
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Units of analysis should be in what form? |
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| aggregate form. can go from individual to aggregate but not aggregate to individual. |
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