Crime Patterns MCQ

_____ is a program administered by the FBI as a strategy to collect data about crimes that are reported to the police.

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Correct Answer: Uniform Crime Reports

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Is telescoping situations in which respondents indirectly identify the timing of past events?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a phrase used to characterize the higher crime rate in the South, suggesting that southerners are socialized to accept, and use, violence in certain situations.

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Correct Answer: Southern Subculture of Violence

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_____ is defined as offenses that are technically less serious than Part I offenses.

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Correct Answer: Part II Offense

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_____ is criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

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Correct Answer: Part I Offenses

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Is parenting Hypothesis a hypothesis explaining gender differences in crime that suggests that differences in males and females result from different ways that boys and girls are treated by their parents?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a national crime reporting system developed in the late 1980s in an effort to provide more detail about crime incidents.

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Correct Answer: National Incident-Based Reporting System

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_____ is defined as a survey created in 1989 to assess victimization rates in different parts of the world.

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Correct Answer: National Crime Victimization Survey

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_____ is federally funded longitudinal survey designed to track drug abuse by juveniles.

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Correct Answer: Monitoring the Future

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Is life-Course-Persistent Offenders offenders who continue to engage in crime throughout their life?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a hypothesis that explains gender differences in crime that suggests that different norms for the behavior of boys and girls may lead to differences in criminal behavior.

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Correct Answer: Gender Role Hypothesis

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_____ is defined as the belief that Black drivers are more likely than White drivers to be stopped by police.

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Correct Answer: Driving While Black

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_____ is a phrase used to describe the amount of crime that is not reported to police.

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Correct Answer: Dark Figure of Crime

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Is crime Clock data reported in Crime in the United States, providing a general breakdown of how frequently crime occurs?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the percentage of crimes that were “solved,” either by arrest or exceptional means.

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Correct Answer: Clearance Rate

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_____ is defined as a hypothesis explaining gender differences in crime that suggests that females and males may be treated differently by criminal justice officials, insulating females from future offending.

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Correct Answer: Chivalry Hypothesis

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_____ is a member of the small group of offenders who appear to commit the vast majority of offenses.

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Correct Answer: Career Criminal

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Is bounding the process of asking about victimization within a specific amount of time in order to reduce the likelihood of double-counting a specific instance of victimization?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a line graph that illustrates the percentage of crimes committed by members of different age groups.

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Correct Answer: Age-Crime Curve

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_____ is defined as offenders whose antisocial behavior is temporary and does not extend beyond adolescence.

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Correct Answer: Adolescence-Limited Offenders

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_____ is a hypothesis explaining gender differences in crime that suggests that female involvement in crime is often in the role of an accomplice.

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Correct Answer: Accomplice Hypothesis

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According to the text, decisions to contact the police are influenced by all of the following EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Time of day

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13. According to the text, ______ are socialized to accept and use violence in certain types of situations, particularly in those situations where the violence is perceived to help protect one’s honor.

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Correct Answer: Southerners

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Criminologists agree that crime is, for the most part, an older person’s game.

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Correct Answer: False

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The National Crime Victimization Survey collects information about crimes reported to the police.

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Correct Answer: False

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Victims are more likely to report the crime if they know the offender.

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Correct Answer: False

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All of the following are considered Part I offenses within the UCR EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Assault

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The more crime that a particular area has, the higher the quality of life; and the less crime an area has, the lower the quality of life.

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Correct Answer: False

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The ______ has the hierarchy rule (the practice of counting only the most serious offense if an offender is arrested for committing several offenses in the same incident).

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Correct Answer: UCR

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______ point(s) to the differences in the way that boys and girls are treated by all members of society and suggest that these differences help to explain why boys and girls behave differently.

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Correct Answer: Socialization explanations/gender roles explanations

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Property crime rates are considerably higher than violent crime rates.

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Correct Answer: True

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The UCR considers a crime cleared by arrest if any of the following conditions are met EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: An offender is sentenced

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Most of your colleges and universities, except for online colleges, are required by law to maintain and report to the public data about crime reported to the police.

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Correct Answer: True

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The accomplice hypothesis suggests that males’ involvement in crime is often in the role of an accomplice.

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Correct Answer: False

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Murder usually has the highest clearance rate, and motor vehicle theft and ______ generally have the lowest clearance rates.

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Correct Answer: Burglaries

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Because of the low participation rate by agencies, the amount of crime reported in NIBRS is about one fourth of the amount reported in the UCR.

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Correct Answer: True

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