Exam 3: Effectiveness of Police in Reducing Crime and the Role of Crime Analysis

Which type of policing asserts that a more systematic approach is necessary in which police collect new data, develop new methods of analysis, identify innovative solutions, and apply measures for assessing the success of their efforts?

In which type of policing does crime analysis, particularly crime mapping, help to determine the geographic areas police would direct traditional responses?

Which is a category within long-term problems?

Which is a category within short-term problems?

Problem-oriented policing has not shown to prevent or reduce crime.

In which type of policing does crime analysis assist with providing information to and obtaining information from the community?

Which is NOT an example of a long term level of activity?

Research on the effectiveness of police has found that which type of policing has shown the most promise for reducing and preventing crime?

Which of the following are NOT elements of the standard model of policing:

Which type of policing asserts that strict enforcement of disorderly behavior and minor offenses will prevent more serious crimes from happening?

Which can be an individual address or a type of place at which there is a concentration of crime or problematic activity over several years?

Which type of policing is the strategy in which police systematically identify areas within a city that have disproportionate amounts of crime and employ responses in those specific areas?

Which type of policing asserts that police must work with the community and draw from other resources outside police to prevent and solve crime problems?

In which type of policing does crime analysis assist with determining the areas and times where enforcement of disorder activity would be best applied?

In which type of policing is crime analysis integral in the presentation of regularized statistics that are used to evaluate police managers' responses to problems in their areas?

Repeat incidents and patterns are short-term levels of activity.

Ten auto thefts from the movie theater parking lot over the last two weeks is an example of a:

Which are two or more incidents that are similar in nature and have happened at the same place typically) or by the same person?

The research on community policing is clear that is has no effect on reducing or preventing crime.

A large retail store that has had a disproportionate number of shoplifting incidents over the last several years is an example of: