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Understanding Delinquency MCQ

Is violent crime index measure of violent crime comprising four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, and robbery?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as official data in the form of crimes known to the police or arrests collected by the FBI.

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Correct Answer: Uniform Crime Report (UCR)

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_____ is defined as a data collection method in which respondents select the responses themselves, usually in questionnaire format.

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Correct Answer: Self-report survey

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_____ is a smaller group that is representative of the whole.

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Correct Answer: Sample

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Is random sample when each individual in the group (population) has the same chances of making it into the sample as the next individual?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as data that are measured or identified on a numerical scale.

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Correct Answer: Quantitative data

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_____ is defined as data that are descriptive in nature that can be observed rather than measured.

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Correct Answer: Qualitative data

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_____ is measure of property crime comprising four offenses: arson, larceny-theft, burglary, and motor vehicle theft.

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Correct Answer: Property crime index

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Is participant observation a qualitative method of data collection in which the researcher studies a group by sharing in its activities and daily life?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a reporting system that houses data on incidents, both crimes known to police and arrests, on 46 specific crimes (expanded categories over the UCR).

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Correct Answer: National Incident-Based Reporting System

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_____ is defined as the primary U.S. source of data on criminal victimization.

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Correct Answer: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

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_____ is one of the best-known sources of data related to teen drug use today; a University of Michigan study that surveys around 50,000 youth about their drug use patterns in middle and high schools in Grades 8, 10, and 12 across the United States and then one more time the year after they graduate.

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Correct Answer: Monitoring the Future study

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Is inductive reasoning reasoning that moves from specific observations (data) to broader generalizations (theory) based on those observations. Qualitative research often uses inductive reasoning?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a testable supposition or tentative explanation for a phenomena.

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Correct Answer: Hypothesis

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_____ is defined as a qualitative method that is the scientific description of the customs of a group.

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Correct Answer: Ethnography

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_____ is the mistake of making an inference about an individual based on aggregate data for the group.

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Correct Answer: Ecological fallacy

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Is deductive reasoning reasoning from general ideas (theory) to more specific observations (data). Deductive reasoning is often used in quantitative research?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the rate at which a certain crime category is closed because of arrest or exceptional means.

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Correct Answer: Clearance rate

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_____ is defined as the number of arrests per 100,000 in the population.

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Correct Answer: Arrest rate

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Crime rates (including delinquency rates) have ______ over the last 30 years.

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Correct Answer: Fluctuated greatly

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Neighborhoods characterized by poverty or disorganization are more likely to have high rates of delinquency than neighborhoods that are considered more organized or less impoverished.

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Correct Answer: True

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Illicit drug use trends are very similar for both males and females.

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Correct Answer: True

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Race and ethnicity make no difference in crime rate trends among delinquency.

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Correct Answer: False

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Age is one of the strongest correlations to delinquency and crime.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which data source is collected through a national survey of crime victims?

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Correct Answer: NCVS

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Which data source is based on reported crimes to the police?

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Correct Answer: UCR

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Inductive reasoning is often used in quantitative data collection.

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Correct Answer: False

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Deductive reasoning is reasoning from general ideas (theory) to more specific observations (data).

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Correct Answer: True

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In a ______ sample each individual in the population has the same chances of making it into the sample as the next individual.

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Correct Answer: Random

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