Exam 1: Crime and Policy: a Complex Problem

America has two crime problems: one problem affects the poor minority inner-city population while the other affects the poor rural white population.

While crime rates are down, most criminologists feel that this is a statistical artifact rather than a genuine decline.

The imprisonment boom in America can be partially attributed to

Explaining the crime drop might involve broad changes in behavior that are beyond the reach of social science to explain.

A systematic review of all available research studies on a particular topic is known as

While ineffective crime policies may be expensive, they cannot actually cause harm.

Traditionally, crime policy has not demanded high quality research evidence of effectiveness for its implementation or continuation.