Exam 2: The Nature and Extent of Crime

The highest crime rate is found in which regions of the country?

Instrumental crimes are committed by those who are unable to obtain desired goods and services through conventional means.

The Monitoring the Future study is a type of _____________ and is considered one of the national standards for measuring substance abuse and other crime trends among American teens.

Describe how the National Crime Victimization Survey is compiled and the validity concerns associated with this method of measuring crime.

Discuss what is meant by the phrase "the ecology of crime." Explain how crime rates are impacted by each factor.

The "missing cases phenomenon" is a validity concern present within the Uniform Crime Report.

The majority of murders involve firearms,and most of these weapons are __________.

The most important and widely used victim survey is the _______________.

Self-report data supports the notion that ________________________ may account for the lower-class's overrepresentation in official statistics and the prison population.

A research approach that asks participants to describe their recent and lifetime criminal activity is termed:

Which of the following sets of factors would not predict chronic offending?

The view that women who commit crimes have biological and psychological traits similar to men is known as the___________________..

___________ involves observing,over time,a group of people who share a like characteristic.

Meta-analysis involves gathering data from:

Official arrest records indicate that African Americans are arrested at a higher rate than members of other racial groups.Self-report data:

Although differences between the UCR and the NCVS abound,the greatest distinction between the two has to do with:

Female criminality is sometimes masked because criminal justice authorities who are reluctant to take action against a woman.This reluctance is known as the__________________.

The relationship between class and crime is an important one for criminological theory.The weight of recent evidence seems to suggest that serious,official crime is more prevalent:

One of the most important findings from cohort studies is the concept of persistence or the continuity of crime.Who is most likely to persist in a criminal career?

The best known and most important source of official crime data is: