EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers

EXERCISE APA 3–7Integrating sources in APA papers

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample uses the source correctly. If the student has made an error in using the source, click on Error; if the student sample is correct, click on OK.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

Although convicted sex offenders raise justifiable concerns about public safety, studies indicate that many of them don’t return to their criminal ways. Researchers are attempting to come up with statistical tools that courts can use to decide who should stay behind bars and who should go free.

Data from several long-term studies of 4,724 sex offenders released from prisons in the United States and Canada after 1980 show that after 10 years, one in five had been arrested for a new sexual offense, says psychologist R. Karl Hanson of the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada in Ottawa. After 20 years, that figure rose to slightly more than one in four. Among men who had victimized children in their own families, an even lower fraction—about 1 in 10—committed a new sexual offense during the first 20 years after release from prison.

Hanson, however, estimates that close to half the released sex offenders eventually commit another sex crime. “Most of their offenses are never reported to the authorities,” he said.

From Bower, B. (2002, July 27). Men of prey. Science News, 162, 59-60.

[The source passage is from page 60.]

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 1 of 10: According to Bower (2002), “Although convicted sex offenders raise justifiable concerns about public safety, studies indicate that many of them don’t return to their criminal ways” (p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 2 of 10: Bower (2002) reported a surprising finding based on several longitudinal studies: “Many convicted sex offenders don’t return to their criminal ways” (p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 3 of 10: No one has yet answered the question of how to deal with potentially dangerous sex offenders who are serving prison time. “Researchers are attempting to come up with statistical tools that courts can use to decide who should stay behind bars and who should go free” (Bower, 2002, p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 4 of 10: Bower (2002) has suggested that scientists can help society decide how to deal with sex offenders: “Researchers are attempting to come up with statistical tools that courts can use to decide who should stay behind bars and who should go free” (p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 5 of 10: A Canadian psychologist has reported that data from several long-term studies of 4,724 sex offenders released from prisons in the United States and Canada after 1980 show that after 10 years, one in five had been arrested for a new sexual offense (Bower, 2002, p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 6 of 10: As Bower (2002) reported, studies of released sex offenders found that “after 10 years, one in five had been arrested for a new sexual offense. . . . After 20 years, that figure rose to slightly more than one in four” (p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 7 of 10: As long-term studies have indicated, “Among men who had victimized children in their own families, only about 10 % committed a new sexual offense during the first 20 years after release from prison” (Bower, 2002, p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 8 of 10: As Bower (2002) has noted, approximately 10% of men convicted of “victimiz[ing] children in their own families . . . committed a new sexual offense during the first 20 years after release from prison” (p. 60).

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 9 of 10: Bower (2002) provided evidence that sex offenders do not always repeat their crimes after serving sentences:“Data from several long-term studies of 4,724 sex offenders released from prisons in the United States and Canada after 1980 show that after 10 years, one in five had been arrested for a new sexual offense, says psychologist R. Karl Hanson of the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada in Ottawa. After 20 years, that figure rose to slightly more than one in four.” (p. 60)

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EXERCISE APA 3–7 Integrating sources in APA papers - 10 of 10: Noting that the recidivism rates for sex offenders could be higher than the studies show, psychologist R. Karl Hanson explained, “Most of their offenses are never reported to the authorities” (as cited in Bower, 2002, p. 60).