There are two jails in your city,one houses state detainees waiting trial while the other houses federal prisoners awaiting trial.You have been asked to assess why there are differences in the institutional behavior between these two institutions.Which design would be appropriate?
A) non-equivalent groups
B) true experiment
C) classical experiment
D) interrupted time-series

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Non-equivalent groups design would be appropriate for assessing the differences in institutional behavior between the two jails as the groups (state and federal detainees) are not equivalent and cannot be randomly assigned to different conditions. It will help to compare the behavior of two groups systematically and identify the factors that contribute to the differences in institutional behavior. A true experiment or classical experiment would not be feasible as the groups cannot be randomly assigned to different conditions, and an interrupted time-series design would not be appropriate for assessing between-group differences in institutional behavior.

There Are Two Jails in Your City,one Houses State Detainees