Exam 13: Analyzing Problems: Application of Techniques Part I

The "prelude" contains the processes that lead directly up to and into the problem behavior

Which is not a variable that crime analyst analyze using mean and standard deviation?

Some problems with using frequency in crime analysis include all except:

The percentage of vehicles that have been stolen in a jurisdiction and subsequently found is called:

Temporal analysis is important for understanding problems because it provides information about when the crimes are occurring for short term patrol deployment.

Clearance rate is achieved in two ways: by arrest and by exceptional means.

Three stages of a crime include:

When computing the number of burglaries at apartment units (rate), apartment units is the:

Crime analysts use three rates regularly: crime rate, arrest rate, and recovery rate.

Which type of chart is best to illustrate the number of thefts by month?

According to environmental criminology, most problems are distributed equally across time.

Strategic crime analysts use time of day/day of week analysis and weighted time span analysis to determine long term trends in crime.

Depicting crime counts by four week periods instead of by month is:

Clearance rates are typically reported as ratios.

It is appropriate to use population size to compare commercial burglaries in different areas as rates.

To examine seasonality, the crime analyst examines several years of data on a problem to determine if there seems to be a similar seasonal pattern across years

In a city with 50 burglaries in Year 1 and 65 burglaries in Year 2, what is the percent change?

Typically, the time unit most often used in strategic crime analysis to describe a problem is a month.

Crosstabulation is often used in crime analysis to examine:

The number of Part I crimes in an area divided by the number of people living in the area multiplied by 100,000 is called: