Exam 2: Theoretical Foundations of Crime Analysis

An example of target displacement would be: if officials change the pay phones in a bus station so they take only credit cards and no coins, they become poor targets for offenders who want to obtain cash.Offenders in the bus station may shift from breaking into pay phones to breaking into coin-operated vending machines.

An example of Spatial displacement would be: if police routinely patrol a particular area between 8:00 p.m.and 10:00 p.m.looking for gang members hanging out on the street, the gang members may shift their behavior and hang out in the area either later or earlier in the day.

Crime analysis techniques can identify and describe any displacement of activity to help police agencies understand how crime activity changes and whether any changes seen are the results of crime prevention efforts.

Which theory would help explain why large retail stores and movie theaters are more likely to have crime than individual residences?

Situational crime prevention is a practice based on the components of the crime triangle.A classification system developed by Donald V.Smith,

A mother drops her 16-year old son at the mall for the afternoon.The boy meets his friends and shoplifts several CDs. The owner of the music store is a:

Stop selling alcohol in the 7^th inning of a baseball game would be an example of which situational crime prevention technique?

The 80/20 rule comes from the observation that exactly 80% of some kinds of outcomes are the result of only 20% of the related causes.

Which theory would explain how the Internet has created opportunities for new or formerly rare crimes?

The problem analysis triangle illustrates the relationships among the offender's criminal history, the vulnerability of the target/victim, the time and place of the crime event, and the lack of oversight/protection.

Installing removable faces on car stereos, attaching ink tags to clothing is an example of increasing the offender's perceived risk.

Displacement of crime does not occur.

The goal of environmental criminology is not to explain why a specific offender commits a specific crime but to understand the various aspects of a criminal event.

Displacement of crime

Research has previously overlooked the fact that the successful elimination of targeted problems may also reduce other problems.

Reducing the offender's provocation techniques aim to change social and environmental conditions in ways that will diminish stress, conflict, and temptation to offend.

Fast-food restaurants with unusually high amount of crime activity are an example of a:

When police routinely patrol a particular area in the evenings for prostitution and the prostitutes move their business to after midnight, this is an example of:

Which type of repeat victimization occurs when the same individuals are repeatedly victimized over time by various offenders for various types of crimes?

Which theory would explain how a person who would normally not steal may decide to steal mulch from Home Depot when the clerk miscounted the number of bags at checkout?