Deck 1: Identifying and Evaluating Crime Conrol

Question 1

Quantitative research typically involves __________.

A) a conclusive legislative change in a law
B) diffusing salient issues between researchers
C) less detailed research on a large number of cases
D) descriptive and in- depth research on a specific group or location

Answer 1

less detailed research on a large number of cases

Question 2

The Elusive Criminal Justice Experiment means that __________.

A) social phenomena such as crime is relatively simple to measure and thus produces a concrete field for study
B) a true classical experiment is hard to create in some areas of crime control
C) criminologists lack the expertise to properly identify and study a macro- level crime problem
D) legislators are highly effective in creating social policy to eliminate crime

Answer 2

a true classical experiment is hard to create in some areas of crime control

Question 3

Which of the following seeks to use the most rigorous scientific methodology available to identify and implement crime control techniques that are most likely to make best use of taxpayer monies?

A) evidence- based justice
B) methodology analysis
C) bandwagon science
D) hard checks

Answer 3

evidence- based justice

Question 4

There is a great deal that we can do to effectively control crime, and the odds are that __________will do the most to make society safer.

A) several approaches combined together
B) tunnel vision
C) one main approach
D) vigilante forces

Question 5

What type of legislation is intended to both prevent and control crime?

A) malicious
B) three- strikes
C) preventative
D) Robert's

Question 6

If someone surveys several people today and finds that there is a relationship between fear of crime and prior victimization, this is a __________.

A) cross- sectional design
B) quotient design
C) correlative quotient
D) cognitive design

Question 7

The __________is concerned with the extent to which a researcher's findings can be carried over to another location or series of locations.

A) bandwagon approach
B) generalization problem
C) cross- sectional design
D) methodology analysis

Question 8

Public order crimes such as prostitution, pornography, gambling and substance abuse are called vice crimes.

Question 9

Targeting low- level crimes, such as street- level drug dealing and prostitution, in an effort to deter more serious crime is known as the Broken Windows Theory.

Question 10

Determining whether the addition of more patrol officers reduces crime in a specific beat or precinct, is an example of evaluation.

Question 11

Violent crimes cause the greatest fear in the minds of most Americans.

Question 12

The Generalization Problem is concerned with the extent to which a researcher's findings can be carried over to another location or series of locations.

Question 13

Hard science would evaluate the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program.

Question 14

__________research involves number crunching and statistical analysis of data.

Question 15

White- collar crime is ill defined but generally consists of crimes committed by people during the course of their__________careers.

Question 16

Suppose you work as a police officer in the 8th largest city in your state. During the past 5 years the residential burglary rate has slowly increased and at present your city has the highest rate in the whole state. Your city has the highest police/citizen ratio in the state, so your chief is perplexed. She checked with all the surrounding cities and discovered that each of them have been conducting miscellaneous micro- level crime control activities for the last 3- 5 years. She also discovered that each of the surrounding cities had a decrease in the residential burglary rates during the prior 3- 5 years. Because of your criminal justice degree, she asks you why the burglary rate is going up while other cities are seeing a decrease. She also asks you for advice as to what might work to lower the burglary rate in your city. What information and advice could you offer?

Question 17

Quantitative research is generally preferred, but sometimes it is difficult to know which interventions are mainly responsible for changes in particular statistics, such as a crime rate decreasing over a period of time. Besides just looking at the numbers, how could a police department obtain information on what works?