Chapter 12: Child Abuse Reporting, Besharov & Laumann

3 Factors That Influence Child Abuse Reporting

1. Mandatory Reporting Laws

2. Public Awareness Campaigns

3. Changing Definitions of Child Abuse

2 Problems with  Child Abuse Reporting

1. Unreported Cases:

2. Unsubstantiated Reports:

2 Reasons for Unsubstantiation

            a. Unfounded:

            b. Unprovable:

Chapter 13: Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans, Laumann et al.  

Sample Design

Types of Sampling

Sample Size

Subpopulations

Gaining Cooperation: The Response Rate

Losing Subjects

The Advance Letter

Modes of Administration

1. Face to Face: (Advantages and Disadvantages)

2. Telephone: (Advantages and Disadvantages)

3. Self-administered: (Advantages and Disadvantages)

Recruiting and Training Interviewers

The Questionnaire

Standardization

Language

Chapter 14: Researching Dealers and Smugglers, Adler

5 Elements of Drug Dealing Research

1. Getting In

2. The Covert Role

3. Developing Trust

4. Overt Role

5. Cross-Checking

3 Ways to Cross-Check

A.    Test information against common sense and general knowledge of the scene.

B.     Check information against a variety of reliable sources.

C.    Check out accounts against hard facts.

Problems and Issues in Conducting Drug Dealing Research

1. The Effect of Drugs on the data-gathering process

2. Assuming risks while doing research

3. The cultural clash

4. Ethical problems

Chapter 15, The Social Construction of Drug Scares, Reinarman.

Seven Elements of a Drug Scare:

1. A Kernel of Truth:

2. Media Magnification:

3. Politico-Moral Entrepreneurs:

4. Professional Interest Groups:

5. Historical Context of Conflict:

6. Linking a Form of Drug Use to a “Dangerous Class”:

7. Scapegoating a Drug for a Wide Array of Public Problems:

3 Reasons the U.S. is Ripe for a Drug Scare:

1. Vocabulary of attribution 

2. The temperance culture

3. The postmodern mass consumption culture.