CCJS 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Randomized Response, Critical Role, Flight Controller

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 300
• Professor: Alan Lehman

Document Summary

Structured interviews: consists of check-off responses to questions that are factual and easily fit an expected pattern. Disadvantage: limited response patterns because of close-ended questions. Disadvantages: may not provide the depth and quality needed. Depth interview: more intensive or detailed interviews that are particularly useful in life histories or case studies. Advantages: discretion and flexibility for interviewer, good for hypothesis generating or exploratory research. Personal contact between the researcher and the subject. Allows interviewer to make use of audiovisual aids. Interviewers can use their discretion when asking questions. Randomized response technique (rrt): means of coping with resistance to sensitive questions by using indeterminate questions, ones in which the actual question answered is known only to the respondent. Survey research organizations play a critical role in taking a pulse of the american public"s opinion regarding public policy. Wording of survey questions can produce differing results.