Exam 6: Measuring Crime

One purpose for measuring crime is to:

Which technique is best for measuring crimes that do not have easily identifiable victims?

Which of the following are considered to be crime measurement "units of analysis"?

Which of the following is a fundamental variable in criminal justice and criminology?

UCR crime data is compiled by the __________ .

The Drug Abuse Warning Network gathers data from which of the following?

If a researcher wanted to determine the amount of cocaine use in an inner-city area of Chicago, which type of study would he most likely use?

Data that is based upon households has which of the following as potential problems?

With regard to the UCR, Part I offenses are counted only when:

Which of the following surveys has been conducted since 1971, surveys households, and is designed to monitor nationwide patterns?

Discuss what your text refers to as "measuring crime for specific purposes." Compare these with the traditional methods.

The main purpose of ADAM was to provide an ongoing assessment of the prevalence of drug use among:

Monitoring the Future is a survey that targets a specific population, namely:

Telescoping refers to:

Surveys are especially useful for learning about which of the following?

Which instrument asks people whether or not they have been the victim of a crime?

Discuss the improvements that have been made to UCR through the NIBRS and the redesigned NCVS. Predict whether these changes will make a major difference in our understanding of crime in America.

For the most part, 1993 NCVS redesign efforts focused on obtaining better measures of

A major issue of the NCVS is that only residents over the age of __________ may be interviewed.

The challenge of developing reliable and valid measures of such offenses as drug use has prompted researchers and policy makers to search for __________  approaches.