Question 1

A person steals money from a victim,assaults the victim,locks the victim in a car trunk and drives him to a remote field,and finally kills the victim,all during the same incident.Which of these crimes actually is counted in the UCR system?

Accepted Answer

A) the theft 
B) the assault 
C) the kidnapping 
D) the homicide

Question 2

Victimization surveys involve random samples of the population about their victimization experiences.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Compared to the UCR1,the UCR2 has reduced the amount of information collected on crime by the police.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Data elements refer to a consensus about what specific information should be collected.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Which of the following is the basic unit of count for the court surveys?

Accepted Answer

A) the offence 
B) the case 
C) the individual 
D) the judge

Question 6

The "dark figure of crime" refers to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) the total number of all violent offences combined 
B) the amount of crime that is unreported or unknown 
C) the statistical weighting of violent offences for the crime severity index 
D) the statistics on organized crime in Canada

Question 7

Compare and contrast the UCR Aggregate (UCR1.0)Survey and the UCR Incident-Based (UCR2.0)Survey.

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

A court survey entails the administration of a questionnaire to a random sample of criminal court judges.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Which of the following scenarios best reflects Kaplan's "law of the hammer"?

Accepted Answer

A) Police-reported crime data continue to be used by social scientists,despite knowledge of their weaknesses. 
B) Assaults and other violent crimes are under-reported in crime statistics. 
C) "Hard" (quantitative)measures of crime are more accurate than "soft" (qualitative)measures. 
D) Crime resists measurement.

Question 10

According to the textbook which of the following most accurately accounts for the statistics indicating an overall increase in the average daily count of adults in custody in Canada between 1978 and 2013?

Accepted Answer

A) an increase in the crime rate in Canada 
B) an increase in harsher sentencing practices 
C) an increase in tough-on-crime legislation 
D) an increase in the Canadian population

Question 11

Which of the following accurately depicts the total Criminal Code offence rate from 1962 through 2010?

Accepted Answer

A) It has remained virtually unchanged. 
B) It increased until about 1991 and has remained about the same since. 
C) It has increased steadily. 
D) It increased until about 1991 and declined since.

Question 12

Which of the following terms best describe when governments introduce tough-on-crime legislation despite the fact that statistics show the crime rate is falling?

Accepted Answer

A) ideology 
B) theory 
C) numerology 
D) scatology

Question 13

Describe the crime severity index.Why was it developed (i.e. ,what limitations of existing UCR statistics did it address)?

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

A gross count of crime is sufficient for a researcher wishing to compare the amount of crime over time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which of the following makes up the statistics in the Uniform Crime Reports?

Accepted Answer

A) police-reported data 
B) victimization surveys 
C) self-report surveys 
D) criminal court Surveys

Question 16

In the 1960s and 1970s,what did social scientists begin to suggest regarding official records of crime?

Accepted Answer

A) They were basically good measures. 
B) They were systematically biased. 
C) They were poor measures of how the criminal justice system works to create crime. 
D) They only small parts of the country.

Question 17

Which of the following term refers to the consistency of research results over time?

Accepted Answer

A) validity 
B) stability 
C) reliability 
D) methodology

Question 18

Levels of aggregation refer to consensus about how to combine data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What is meant by the term the "dark figure of crime"? Provide specific examples of "darkness" that characterize our understanding of the scope of crime in Canada.

Accepted Answer

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Question 20

Crimes known to the police will always be biased by inconsistencies in reporting & recording.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 4: Counting Crime

A person steals money from a victim,assaults the victim,locks the victim in a car trunk and drives him to a remote field,and finally kills the victim,all during the same incident.Which of these crimes actually is counted in the UCR system?

Victimization surveys involve random samples of the population about their victimization experiences.

Compared to the UCR1,the UCR2 has reduced the amount of information collected on crime by the police.

Data elements refer to a consensus about what specific information should be collected.

Which of the following is the basic unit of count for the court surveys?

The "dark figure of crime" refers to which of the following?

Compare and contrast the UCR Aggregate (UCR1.0)Survey and the UCR Incident-Based (UCR2.0)Survey.

A court survey entails the administration of a questionnaire to a random sample of criminal court judges.

Which of the following scenarios best reflects Kaplan's "law of the hammer"?

According to the textbook which of the following most accurately accounts for the statistics indicating an overall increase in the average daily count of adults in custody in Canada between 1978 and 2013?

Which of the following accurately depicts the total Criminal Code offence rate from 1962 through 2010?

Which of the following terms best describe when governments introduce tough-on-crime legislation despite the fact that statistics show the crime rate is falling?

Describe the crime severity index.Why was it developed (i.e. ,what limitations of existing UCR statistics did it address)?

A gross count of crime is sufficient for a researcher wishing to compare the amount of crime over time.

Which of the following makes up the statistics in the Uniform Crime Reports?

In the 1960s and 1970s,what did social scientists begin to suggest regarding official records of crime?

Which of the following term refers to the consistency of research results over time?

Levels of aggregation refer to consensus about how to combine data.

What is meant by the term the "dark figure of crime"? Provide specific examples of "darkness" that characterize our understanding of the scope of crime in Canada.

Crimes known to the police will always be biased by inconsistencies in reporting & recording.