Exam 2: The Nature and Extent of Crime

The weight of recent research suggests that serious crime is more prevalent in socially disorganized lower-class areas.​

The small group of persistent offenders who account for a majority of all criminal offenders are known as ______.

Crime peaks in adolescence and then declines rapidly thereafter.

The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession of another is known as __________.​

Discovery of the chronic offender has forced criminologists to consider _____ in their explanations of crime.​

Crime peaks in adolescence and then declines rapidly thereafter. What is the peak age for property crime?​

The police chief recommends to the audience that they should look at other sources to evaluate statistics on crime. He suggests that the participants review the _______________, which is a comprehensive, nationwide survey of victimization in the United States conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.​

The consequence of a lack of income and other resources, which cumulatively, leads to poverty is known as _____

Survey research involves _____, which is the process of selecting for study a limited number of subjects who are representative of entire groups sharing similar characteristics, called the population.​

Which of the following is not mentioned as a predictive factor for chronicity?​

The majority of murderers use _____________ to commit their murder.​

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is the federal agency that collects data from local law enforcement agencies and publishes them yearly in its Uniform Crime Report (UCR).​

Although the gap is narrowing, males have a higher crime rate than females.

In Wolfgang et al.'s study of male juvenile delinquents, what percentage consisted of chronic offenders?

According to the UCR, 70 percent of murders involve this choice of weapon.

UCR data associate social class with crime, indicating higher crime rates in inner-city, high-poverty areas. An alternative explanation for the association between social class and crime is ____, not actual criminal behavior patterns.​

The "Hierarchy Rule" impacts the validity of the National Crime Victimization Survey.​

The ______ is the view that women who commit crimes have biological and psychological traits similar to those of men.​

The community is concerned that the police department is not deploying its manpower effectively. According to the research, during what months should police staffing be maximized?​

A relatively new criminological technique called __________________, uses multiple advanced computational methods, including artificial intelligence, to analyze large data sets that usually involve one or more sources.