Chapter 9: Analyzing Context

Question 1

Research that seeks to understand how national systems work and the factors related to their operations

Answer 1

Analytic Comparative Research

Question 2

A very large data set (e.g., contains thousands of cases) that is accessible in computer-readable form and is used to reveal patterns, trends, and associations between variables with new computer technology

Answer 2

Big Data

Question 3

Research comparing data from more than one time period and/or more than one nation

Answer 3

Comparative Research

Question 4

A research method for systematically analyzing and making inferences from text, visual images, or other sources

Answer 4

Content Analysis

Question 5

Geographical mapping strategies used to visualize a number of things including location, distance, and patterns of crime and their correlates

Answer 5

Crime Mapping

Question 6

Research that seeks to understand the structure, nature, or scope of a nation’s or nations’ criminal justice systems or rates of crime

Answer 6

Descriptive Comparative Research

Question 7

This federal law stipulates that all persons have a right to access all federal agency records unless the records are specifically exempted

Answer 7

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

Question 8

The software tool that has made crime mapping increasingly available to researchers since the 1990s

Answer 8

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Question 9

A method proposed by John Stuart Mill for establishing a causal relation in which the values of cases that agree on an outcome variable also agree on the value of the variable hypothesized to have a causal effect, whereas they differ in terms of other variables

Answer 9

Method of Agreement

Question 10

Frequency graphs produced by Google’s database of all words printed in more than one third of the world’s books over time (with coverage still expanding)

Answer 10

Ngrams

Question 11

Uses data from several sources to predict the probability of crime occurring in the future using the underlying factors of the environment that are associated with illegal behavior

Answer 11

Risk-Terrain Modeling (RTM)

Question 12

Analysis of data collected by someone other than the researcher or the researcher’s assistant

Answer 12

Secondary Data Analysis

Question 13

Explores how cultures and nations deal with crime that transcends their borders

Answer 13

Transnational Research