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Think About Crime on Your Campus

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Think about crime on your campus. What research question interests you the most about crime on your campus? Taking what you learned in Chapter 5 about sampling, who would you need to sample? How would you gather your sample? Would your sample be nonprobability or probability? Which particular type of sampling method would you use (e.g., quota, availability, simple random). Based on the sampling method, how generalizable would your findings be to your campus and to other campuses?


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