Suppose We Are Interested in Investigating the Crime of Personal

question 2

Multiple Choice

Suppose we are interested in investigating the crime of personal larceny with contact, which generally involves pocket picking and purse snatching. Because elderly citizens are disproportionately victimized by this crime, we would want to make sure we have enough elderly victims in our sample to make comparisons to younger cohorts. What type of sampling method would we use?

• A) availability sampling
• B) quota sampling
• C) multistage cluster sampling
• D) purposive sampling

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