Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Population Health Data Programs Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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5 Asking Criminal Justice Involvement Questions
5 Asking Criminal Justice Involvement Questions
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It is a challenge to craft sensitive questions that will obtain the desired information without offending respondents. The workshop session covered in this chapter responds to the objective of developing ideas for potential survey questions that can be included in the household surveys of the U.S.
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they cause concern for respondents about the threat of disclosure and repercussions if they respond truthfully; or (3) they raise social desirability concerns as respondents want their answers to reflect societal norms, which leads to overreporting of socially desirable answers and underreporting of socially undesirable answers.
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Disaggregating survey responses by characteristics of people who participated in the survey, the researchers found that people who graduated with honors were more likely to participate in the survey than those who did not graduate. On questions of the students' status at graduation, the researchers found that survey respondents overreported graduating with honors and underreported dropping classes.
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To see its effect on reporting of academic cheating, vandalism, shoplifting, littering, illegal drug use, and drinking and driving, Holtgraves and colleagues (1997) used the following forgiving introduction: "Almost everyone has probably committed vandalism at one time or another." The forgiving introduction improved reporting of academic cheating, illegal drug use, drinking and driving, vandalsm, and littering; it did not change the reporting for shop i lifting.
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(2013) Number of sexual partners ACASI vs.
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Such a list makes the respondents speculate about the mean answer and rank order their answers relative to the mean, which improves the chances of getting a truthful answer as respondents believe they are doing better than average. Indirect Techniques Indirect techniques that are helpful in understanding population sizes include randomized response techniques, crosswise models, and item count techniques.
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, and the NLSY all contain questions about criminal justice contact, but the questions vary greatly. • Add Health asks respondents if they have ever been arrested or taken into custody by police.
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Since you were 18, have you been locked up for at least 30 days to punish you for breaking the law? Timing: recent versus Specific calendar periods are often difficult for respondents to lifetime remember, as people tend to store life events in their memory by their significance.
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