Pager's Research, Described in "The Mark of a Criminal Record

question 1

Multiple Choice

Pager's research, described in "The Mark of a Criminal Record,"

• A) used a panel study design to follow the same group of individuals over a period of approximately 20 years, from schools to jobs and beyond.
• B) took an ethnographic approach, with Pager and her students going to the research site and spending many hours over several months with the people they were studying.
• C) was an audit study that sent "testers" into the field to obtain and record the responses of select people to different "tester characteristics."
• D) analyzed statistical data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Statistics data file.

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