Exam 1: Introduction to the Book: an Overview of Issues in Criminological Theory

The Uniform Crime Report is generated annually by the ______.

Crime rates in the U.S.have not changed at all since the early 1900s.

Across categories of race/ethnicity, ______ are the most victimized.

According to the latest estimates, about ______ of the index offenses are not reported to police

The NCVS uses a scientifically selected random sample of households, therefore the results data is generalizable.

What effect has the Baby Boom generation had on crime in the last 50 years?

The dark figure of crime refers to the crimes that go unreported to the police.

Theory is defined as ______.

The shopping center parking lot in Some City, Texas has high levels of motor vehicle theft.This parking lot, then, would be referred to by law enforcement as a/an ______.

The ______ perspective assumes that individuals are passive subjects of determinism.

The data reported by the National Crime Victimization Survey is based on the number of crimes per 1,000 ______ per year.

The NCVS provides rates of crime as "crimes per 100,000 people per year."

According to the text, ______ would NOT be a good example of a hot spot.

Across demographic catergories, the highest rates of victimization AND offending are among ______.

______ data are primarily collected by independent academic scientists or think tank agencies.

______ have had the highest crime rates in the last few decades.

The UCR's Part 1 offenses are also referred to as ______.

Perhaps the most important way that crime and victimization tends to cluster in groups is by ______.

The UCR has been collecting data since 1900.

The three criteria that are needed to show causality are temporal ordering, covariation, and ______.