Assignment:
1. How does research design control for rival causal factors? Describe, for example, how the classic experimental design controls for history and maturation.
2. Find a recent journal artide that employs an experimental, preexperimental, or quasi-experimental design. Name, describe, and illustrate the design, and discuss any rival causal factors controlled for in this design.
3. Why are time-series designs particularly useful in criminal justice studies?
4. Design a hypothetical study, and discuss how your design controls for many rival causal factors.
5. Discuss the Kansas City gun experiment. What type of research design was employed, and what were the major findings of the project?