Relibility, Validity, Ethics

Question 1

Define reliability

Answer 1

Whether the method of collecting information gets the same result if someone else does it.

Question 2

Define validity

Answer 2

Whether the statistics give us a true picture of the amount of crime.

Question 3

Define ethics

Answer 3

Whether the data on crime is breaking any morals, like breaching the right to privacy or anonymity.

Question 4

What are ethics in general?

Answer 4

Issues of morality, or right and wrong.

Question 5

What are ethics of crime research specifically?

Answer 5

Offender and victims right to privacy; protection of anonymity.

Question 6

Summarise reliability.

Answer 6

• production of consistent, replicable outcomes.
• substantiation based on past data.
• use of limited number of objective variables.
• minimization of judgement.
• avoidance of the possibility of bias.

Question 7

Summarize validity

Answer 7

• production of outcome that meets objective.
• substantiation based on future events.
• use of a broad number of diverse variables.
• integration of judgement.
• acknowledgement of the reality of bias.