Question 1

The percentage of vehicles that have been stolen in a jurisdiction and subsequently found is called:

Accepted Answer

A)  Recovery rate
B)  Arrest rate
C)  Percentage found
D)  Clearance rate A

Question 2

In a city with 50 burglaries in Year 1 and 65 burglaries in Year 2, what is the percent change?

Accepted Answer

A)  15 burglaries
B)  15%
C)  30%
D)  65 burglaries C

Question 3

Temporal analysis is important for understanding problems because it provides information about when the crimes are occurring for short term patrol deployment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

When computing the number of burglaries at apartment units rate), apartment units is the:

Accepted Answer

A)  Numerator
B)  Multiplier
C)  Denominator
D)  Mode

Question 5

Which city or cities has the highest crime rate?

Accepted Answer

A)  City A: 2,000 crimes and 50,000 people
B)  City B: 1,456 crimes per 100,000 people
C)  City C: 3,000 crimes and 200,000 people
D)  A and C

Question 6

Depicting crime counts by four week periods instead of by month is:

Accepted Answer

A)  Preferable since four week periods allow equal measurement of time
B)  Is used more often in crime analysis
C)  Is not preferable since four week periods are difficult to construct from data
D)  None of the above

Question 7

Three stages of a crime include:

Accepted Answer

A)  Planning, execution, consequences
B)  Surveillance, crime act, aftermath
C)  Prelude, incident, aftermath
D)  None of the above

Question 8

Crosstabulation is often used in crime analysis to examine:

Accepted Answer

A)  Day of month/month of year
B)  Type of crime/type of suspect
C)  Time of day/day of week
D)  Calls for service/crime

Question 9

The number of Part I crimes in an area divided by the number of people living in the area multiplied by 100,000 is called:

Accepted Answer

A)  Crime rate
B)  Arrest rate
C)  Recovery crime rate
D)  Clearance rate

Question 10

The ratio of crimes that have been resolved through arrest and exceptional means is called:

Accepted Answer

A)  Crime rate
B)  Arrest rate
C)  Recovery rate
D)  Clearance rate

Question 11

Strategic crime analysts use time of day/day of week analysis and weighted time span analysis to determine long term trends in crime.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

"Anticipatory benefit" is when:

Accepted Answer

A)  Police expect their responses to work
B)  A hypothesis about what is expected from a crime prevention response
C)  There are combined effects of multiple responses on a problem
D)  A particular problem may begin to increase before the responses are complete
E)  None of the above

Question 13

Typically, the time unit most often used in strategic crime analysis to describe a problem is a month.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Typically, the largest time unit used in strategic crime analysis to describe a problem is a month.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

When computing the number of burglaries at apartment units rate), number of burglaries is the:

Accepted Answer

A)  Numerator
B)  Multiplier
C)  Denominator
D)  Mode

Question 16

In the following chart, which time of day/day of week contains the highest number of calls:

Accepted Answer

A)  Monday and Tuesday, 3:00am to 5:00am
B)  Saturday from 9:00pm to 10:00pm
C)  Thursday and Friday, 7:00pm
D)  Wednesday, 5:00pm

Question 17

Which type of chart is best to compare proportions of a variable in two time periods?

Accepted Answer

A)  Line chart
B)  Scatterplot
C)  Pie chart
D)  Bar chart

Question 18

Crime analysts use three rates regularly: crime rate, arrest rate, and recovery rate.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In a city with no homicides in Year 1 and 5 in Year 2, what is the percent change?

Accepted Answer

A)  5 homicides
B)  500%
C)  100%
D)  None of the above

Question 20

Most crime statistics published by the FBI on a national level are tabulated

Accepted Answer

A)  By year
B)  By month
C)  By quarter
D)  By type of offender
E)  By neighborhood

Exam 13: Analyzing Problems: Application of Techniques Part I

The percentage of vehicles that have been stolen in a jurisdiction and subsequently found is called:

In a city with 50 burglaries in Year 1 and 65 burglaries in Year 2, what is the percent change?

Temporal analysis is important for understanding problems because it provides information about when the crimes are occurring for short term patrol deployment.

When computing the number of burglaries at apartment units rate) , apartment units is the:

Which city or cities has the highest crime rate?

Depicting crime counts by four week periods instead of by month is:

Three stages of a crime include:

Crosstabulation is often used in crime analysis to examine:

The number of Part I crimes in an area divided by the number of people living in the area multiplied by 100,000 is called:

The ratio of crimes that have been resolved through arrest and exceptional means is called:

Strategic crime analysts use time of day/day of week analysis and weighted time span analysis to determine long term trends in crime.

"Anticipatory benefit" is when:

Typically, the time unit most often used in strategic crime analysis to describe a problem is a month.

Typically, the largest time unit used in strategic crime analysis to describe a problem is a month.

When computing the number of burglaries at apartment units rate) , number of burglaries is the:

In the following chart, which time of day/day of week contains the highest number of calls:

Which type of chart is best to compare proportions of a variable in two time periods?

Crime analysts use three rates regularly: crime rate, arrest rate, and recovery rate.

In a city with no homicides in Year 1 and 5 in Year 2, what is the percent change?

Most crime statistics published by the FBI on a national level are tabulated