Exam 2: The Nature and Extent of Crime

About two-thirds of murders and 40 percent of robberies involve a(n):

______ has been employed to help police departments allocate resources to combat crime based on offense patterns, resulting in the development of predictive policing.

Crimes that have no purpose except accomplishing the goal at hand--for instance, shooting somebody-- are called _______________.

Of the following countries, which has the lowest crime and victimization rate?

The best known and most widely cited source of official criminal statistics is:

There has been a significant decline in U.S. crime rates, which are now below those of other industrial nations.

The trend in overall U.S. crime rates has shown a marked _____.

If criminologists want to see the direct effect of one factor on another, such as determining whether playing violent video games will impact the aggression of players, they conduct:

If findings from the Monitoring the Future study are accurate, youth crime is:

Human trafficking impacts virtually every country in every region of the world.

According to statistics in the text, approximately how many gang members are in the United States?

___________________ refers to the fact that as individuals get older, they are less likely to criminally offend.

A research approach that asks participants, often prisoners, to describe their recent and lifetime criminal activity is termed:

What is the relationship between race and crime? How is this relationship explained?

About two-thirds of all murders and 40 percent of robberies involve the use of a _____.

According to the Wolfgang et al study, chronic offenders account for a large amount crime but make up only _____ percentage of the population.

A policy in which offenders convicted of three felony offenses receive a mandatory life sentence is known as:

Discuss what is meant by the phrase "the ecology of crime." Explain how crime rates are impacted by each ecology factor.

This view holds that the best predictor of future criminality is past criminality.

A risk factor for future criminal offending is poor attendance in school.