Deck 13: Strategic Crime Analysis

Question 1

Strategic crime analysis is the analysis of data in order to develop long-term strategies, policies and prevention techniques

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Strategic crime analysis focuses on short-term crime trends

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Crime analysts will use both quantitative and qualitative data for strategic crime analysis

Answer 3

True

Question 4

While Tactical crime analysts may be concerned with crime trends, Strategic crime analysts are more concerned with crime patterns

Question 5

Quantitative research usually involves statistics and data that can be scored and presented easily on graphs or in tables.

Question 6

Quantitative research also focuses on the meanings, traits and defining characteristics of events, people, interactions, settings and cultures.

Question 7

Focus groups and interviews are often conducted when an analyst is engaged in qualitative research

Question 8

Crime analysts who engage in content analysis take as their data field notes, transcripts of interviews or focus groups, police reports, magazine articles, newspaper articles, blogs, suicide notes or criminal confessions

Question 9

It is enough for the strategic crime analyst to identify a crime trend

Question 10

Herman Goldstein first described the problem-oriented approach to policing in a 1979 article

Question 11

According to the problem-oriented approach to policing, policing should be about simply responding to crimes

Question 12

Crime analysts have found that the theories and concepts of environmental criminology are very helpful in understanding crime patterns and crime trends

Question 13

The Problem Analysis Triangle comes from one of the main theories of psychological causation of criminology.

Question 14

Basically, there are two kinds of reports that come from strategic crime analysts: 1). Publications that track and describe trends; 2). Publications that analyze crime problems.

Question 15

The reports generated by strategic crime analysts may be distributed to personnel in only one way.

Question 16

In contrast to tactical crime analysis, strategic crime analysis is the analysis of data in order to develop ______________ .

A) Short-term strategies and quick fixes
B) Long-term strategies, policies and prevention techniques
C) Strategies that stop short of prevention
D) Policies to end police unions

Question 17

Strategic crime analysis takes into account factors such as population, demographics and geographic changes and is an important part of ______________.

A) Working with teenage gangs
B) Planning for re-entry of parolees
C) Working with SWAT units
D) Planning for the future

Question 18

Strategic crime analysts use both quantitative and ______________ research to gather information that will help them accomplish their primary goals.

A) Qualitative
B) Mathematical
C) Secretive
D) Non-intelligent

Question 19

One of the two major goals or purposes of strategic crime analysis is to assist in _______.

A) Finding a new police chief
B) Shutting down human trafficking enterprises
C) The identification and analysis of long-term problems
D) Detailing various solutions to general global problems

Question 20

In general, crime trends are long-term increases and decreases in _______.

A) Crime
B) Population
C) Police power
D) The public view of law enforcement

Question 21

Crime trends can occur over months, years, decades, or even centuries, but are rarely discussed in terms shorter than ______________.

A) A day or longer than a week
B) A week or longer than two weeks
C) A month or longer than three months
D) A month or longer than a decade

Question 22

Crime problems are different from crime trends; A crime problem usually refers to multiple crime or disorder incidents with common causal factors while a crime trend can be viewed as the______________ .

A) Causes
B) Symptoms
C) Aftermath
D) Recommendations

Question 23

The most all-encompassing definition of a crime problem comes from Ron Clarke and John Eck, who define a problem as "a recurring set of related harmful events in a community that members of the public ______________."

A) Think should be left alone
B) Expect the government to do something about
C) Expect the police to address
D) Believe they should solve themselves

Question 24

Quantitative research usually involves statistics and data that can be scored and presented easily _______.

A) In short sound bites
B) In long documentaries
C) On YouTube
D) On graphs or in tables

Question 25

The knowledge gained through qualitative investigations tends to be more informative and richer while offering ______________.

A) An enhanced understanding compared with that which can be obtained via quantitative research
B) A glimpse into the complex world of statistics
C) Data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports
D) Little insight into the problem

Question 26

The qualitative methods specific to strategic crime analysis include field research, content analysis, interviews, focus groups and ______________.

A) Standardized tests
B) Environmental assessment
C) The SARA approach
D) Projective techniques

Question 27

Field research for the strategic crime analyst means observing the characteristics of various crime locations or immersion in a setting where crime occurs so as to better understand the _______of the social structure or the action and interaction of a neighborhood, a group, or victims.

A) Psychological dynamics
B) Economic variables
C) What, how, when and where
D) Biological basis

Question 28

During field research, the actual data that a crime analyst observes are generally ______________while doing observation.

A) Test scores from participants
B) Police reports that have come in
C) FBI statistics published
D) Notes that the researcher takes

Question 29

Ethnographic methods have to do with combining observational skills with the interpersonal skills of navigating a new environment so as to find one's way through a new world while learning how to be a ______________.

A) Nondisruptive presence in that new world
B) Silent and undercover agent
C) Member in good standing of the environment
D) Spy in a strange world

Question 30

The data utilized in content analysis by the crime analyst is almost always text or narrative and the emphasis is on the meaning of text; In quantitative methods, the emphasis is usually on ______________.

A) Crime
B) Undercover secrets
C) Statistics
D) Counting criminals

Question 31

Survey research involves the collection of information from a sample of individuals through their responses to _______.

A) Questions
B) Anonymous phone calls
C) Reporter's inquiries
D) FBI interrogations

Question 32

Focus groups are ______________in which an analyst meets with a collection of similarly situated, but usually unrelated persons, for purposes of uncovering information about a topic.

A) Paper and pencil tasks
B) Guided conversations
C) Very large groups
D) Online and anonymous chats

Question 33

Environmental surveys are used to systematically observe the physical features of a location in order to learn how the space is used, what types of people are generally present, how they congregate and the _______.

A) The potential for business zoning
B) Reason why the area is free of homeless people
C) Potential for criminal activity
D) Reasons why people take out their frustrations in that locale

Question 34

Data analysis and field research will lead to some hypotheses or conclusions about a ______________.

A) Crime problem or a crime trend
B) Reason why police departments merge
C) Certain type of public corruption
D) Need for more research

Question 35

It is not enough for the strategic crime analyst to identify a crime trend; he or she must go _______ the amelioration of the problem or trend.

A) To the chief for permission to pursue
B) Back to their office to study
C) Beyond this and make recommendations for
D) Back to college to learn more about

Question 36

Clarke and Eck outlined a role in which the crime analyst uses the ______________to generate new responses to the problems that are diagnosed and participates directly in efforts to test and implement them.

A) FBI model
B) ACLU model
C) Crime Analysis Triangle model
D) SARA model

Question 37

There is generally solid evidence that ______________enforcement at crime or disorder hot spots can be effective.

A) Aggressive law
B) Geographically concentrated
C) Passive law
D) Spread over a large area law

Question 38

Herman Goldstein originated the concept of problem-oriented policing in a paper published in 1979; he proposed a simple idea: Policing should fundamentally be about _______.

A) Changing the conditions that give rise to recurring crime problems
B) Only arresting offenders
C) Go after the bad guys
D) Following the ideas of "Dirty Harry"

Question 39

Herman Goldstein said the police must adopt a problem-solving approach in which they work through four stages, the first of which is ______________.

A) Assess police records related to arrests
B) Round up the usual suspects
C) Scan data to identify patterns in the incidents they routinely handle
D) Wait for crimes to happen

Question 40

In the SARA Model and approach, Eck and Clarke that it is at the stages of ______________ that the strategic analyst can make the greatest contribution.

A) Analysis and Assessment
B) Scanning and Exploring
C) Response and Reaction
D) Assessment and Arrest

Question 41

In the Scanning stage of SARA, recurring problems of concern to the public and the police are ______________.

A) Solved
B) Analyzed
C) Identified
D) Rationalized

Question 42

In the Analysis stage of SARA, analysts may develop a ______________ about why the problem is occurring.

A) Probable excuse
B) Plausible deniability
C) Fancy rationale
D) Working hypothesis

Question 43

In the Assessment stage of SARA, it is important to determine whether the ______________were attained.

A) Broad goals and specific objectives
B) Police look good
C) Prosecutor is satisfied
D) Ideas of the police chief

Question 44

The Problem Analysis Triangle comes from one of the main theories of environmental criminology:

A) Broken windows theories
B) Strain theory
C) Routine activities theory
D) Community disorganization theory

Question 45

As suggested by the Problem Analysis Triangle, routine activities theory states that predatory crime occurs when a likely offender and suitable target come together in time and place without ______________.

A) A conscience operating in the offender
B) A capable guardian present
C) Any motivations by offenders
D) Any sense of rhyme or reason

Question 46

When an analyst confronts some new and perplexing crime trend or crime problem, that analyst should form ______________ about its causes.

A) Solid conclusions
B) Half-baked theories
C) Alternative facts
D) Hypotheses

Question 47

A set of hypotheses about the causes of a crime problem or crime trend is a ______________ for analysis.

A) Road map
B) Red herring
C) Poor excuse
D) Substitute

Question 48

When the hypotheses have been proposed and tested and a plan for amelioration of the crime trend or crime problem has been decided, there must be a _______to the police department's command so that action can be considered.

A) Oral presentation
B) Definite conclusion presented in memo form
C) Report
D) Covert message

Question 49

Some experts suggest that there are basically two kinds of reports that come from strategic crime analysts: 1). Publications that track and describe trends; 2). Publications that ______________ .

A) Use a comic book format
B) Analyze crime problems
C) Oversimplify any problems
D) Present law enforcement in the best light

Question 50

In an Identifying Problems Report, the analyst details information related to the systematic identification of long-term problems, including the locations of problem areas and _______.

A) The officers previously involved
B) Addresses of cleared suspects
C) Other states that had similar problems
D) Specific offenders known to be suspects in crime problems or crime trends

Question 51

The Three-Year Crime or Disorder Trend Chart evaluates the success of ______________ overall, as well as helps to identify emerging long-term problems.

A) Crime increase strategies
B) Crime reduction strategies
C) Personnel deployment strategies
D) Hiring more crime analysts

Question 52

The reports generated by strategic crime analysts may be distributed to personnel in_______.

A) Only one way
B) A way that makes the strategic analyst look bad
C) A variety of ways
D) Only memo form

Question 53

Finally, it might be said that the primary objective of crime analysis is to assist the police in reducing & preventing crime & disorder, while presenting ______________ .

A) Cutting-edge policing strategies
B) Reports in colorful and inaccurate ways
C) Statistics that convince the public that crime is decreasing
D) Photos of police department personnel