In Sechrist and Weil (2017), the authors write: “Researchers and command staff decided upon a set of desired outcomes to evaluate the success of the strategy: (a) reduction in the IPDV CFS, (b) reduction in IPDV arrests, (C) reduction in victim injury in IPDV-related incidents, and (d) reduction in IPDV offender recidivism.” (7) In addition to indicating the specific measures they will use to indicate change in domestic violence, this statement conveys the researchers’ ______?
a. conclusions
b. hypotheses
c. literature review
d. inductive research
e. none of these