Exam 2: Measuring and Comparing

The UCR program is _______________, so not all police departments report crime data every year.

Why does the United States have such a high rate of violent crime?

The majority of the American Crime problem is one of:

Which problem has plagued comparative researches for many years in regards to international crime statistics?

Approximately _______ percent of all homicides are committed with firearms.

China regularly reports high rates of crime each year.

Which one of the following regions has one of the highest homicide rates?

Discuss the four (4) main flaws of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR).

______________ is a worldwide problem that directly or indirectly touches every one of us in multiple ways.

Easy access to guns is one factor that may contribute to the high homicide rates in the United States.

Self-report surveys are used mostly with adults and usually in national samples.

Homicide rates should be more reliable than those for other crimes, because of the presence of a human body in nearly every case.

Which crime statistics initiative collects data on every incident and arrest within 22 offense categories made up of 46 specific crimes?

Explain some factors that influence Japan's low crime rate.

_______________ is helpful because it is able to compare information about known offenders with those who have not been caught.

The CTS focuses more on information about criminal justice systems than on the measurement of crime.

There is fairly close correspondence between the crime definitions used by the UCR and NCVS, which makes it possible to assess national crime information from the viewpoint of the victim and the police.

Which of the following is not one of the crimes that the National Crime Victimization Survey collects data on?

Measuring crime and comparing crime data does not provide clues as to why some nations are more successful than others in controlling crime rates.

Understanding crime trends is important both domestically and internationally.