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1. Stop-and-frisk is a controversial tactic in which police approach persons on the street who appear to act suspiciously, “frisk” them for weapons or contraband, then ask some questions.  Reseach in New York City has shown that young males of color are more often stopped than older people, females, or whites.  Briefly describe two approaches to sampling subjects for a research study on people’s expeeriences of stop-and-frisk.
2. Discuss possible study populations, elements, sampling units, and sampling frames for drawing a sample to represent populations from:
3.  Large city police officers
4. Persons incarcerated in county jails.

5. Crime

    

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   Crime hot spots are areas where crime reports, calls for police service, or other measures of crime are especially common.  Police in departments with a good analytic capability routinely identify hot spots and launch special tactics to reduce crime in these areas.  What kinds of validity threats should researchers be especially attentive to in studying the effects of police interventions on hot spots?

6. Drunk Driving

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   The textbook authors describe three specific criteria for causality.  For this writing assignment, describe the cause/effect of drinking alcohol and driving and vehicle accidents.   You are to describe the relationship to meet all three criteria and support each.