Exam 4: The Uniform Crime Reports and Sampling

Cluster sampling is most useful in telephone surveys.

What are some possible explanations for the crime dip of the 1990s?

In surveys, statistics can be used to control for rival causal factors after the fact.

_________________ samples rely on knowledge of the distribution of a population's characteristics to choose a sample that assures representativeness of these characteristics.

The redesigned UCR expands the forcible rape category to include forcible sodomy, sexual assault with object, and forcible fondling.

What type of sampling procedure is most useful for interviewing widely disperse populations?

Arson is the most unreliably measured of the UCR index offenses.

The fact that the crime index is an unweighted index means that:

This type of sampling is described as a nonprobability stratified sample:

Replication involves repeating the design and methodology of previous studies.

_________________ is the name of the unit-record reporting system which is the major change in the new Uniform Crime Reports program.

The National Incident Based Reporting System still will lack the capacity to note whether a crime was committed by computer.

The redesigned UCR reduces and simplifies the number of crimes recorded.

A simple random sample does not assure:

The National Incident-Based Reporting System designates each crime as either attempted or completed.

The UCR crime index is weighted according to offense seriousness.

_________________ samples refer to those that permit estimation of the likelihood of each element of the population being selected in the sample.

Simple random samples by no means guarantee probability samples.

The redesigned UCR considers crimes such as drug offenses, gambling violations, pornography and prostitution:

The original UCR system includes "crimes against society" as a category.