Exam 6: Measuring-Crime

UCR data suffers from:

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

_____________affords a comparatively long-term time series that monitors the most serious medical consequences of drug use.

What is one of the chief advantages of measuring crime through victim surveys?

The victim in crimes such as prostitution,drug use and bookmaking is ____________

Which of the following is a data series that has been collected since 1930?

Identify the major efforts to gather information about drug abuse in the United States.How do these measures compare with one another? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each?

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

A single incident cannot include multiple offenses,but may have one offense and multiple offenders.

Samples based on households may not be readily ________________to other populations,as well as results obtained from high school seniors.

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

When crimes are selectively reported to police and selectively recorded by police,this falls under which method of reporting crime?

In the field of public health,"monitoring" (in order to measure crime)is referred to as a(n):

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

According to the textbook,which two series of crime measures seek to assess the magnitude,nature,and impact of crime in the Nation?

The NIBRS has a relatively low level of sophistication and cost.

Drug episodes are defined as:

The most widely used measures of crime are based on police records and are commonly referred to as:

The broad questions that influence all measures of crime include all of the following except:

Measures of crime are said to be selective.In what way is the ADAM program selective as a measure of drug use?