Facts and observations that researchers gather by conducting their own measurements for a study
What is Primary Data
100
UCR means
What is Uniform Crime Reports
100
This concept holds that offenders commit less crime as they get older because they have less strength, initiative, stamina, and mobility
What is Aging-out phenomenon
200
Achieve the result through his or her own effort
What is Causation
200
A selected subset of a population to be studied
What is Sample
200
In the UCR these are known as Part I Offenses
What is Index Crimes
200
According to the NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) this is the safest place to be.
What is Home
300
Physical movement that results from the determination or effort of the actor.
What is Act
300
The systematic collection of information by asking questions in questionnaires or interviews
What is Survey
300
In the UCR, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson are crimes against
What is Property
300
This group of people born in the same year
Who are the birth cohort
400
The last ingredient to constitute a crime
What is Punishment
400
A large group of persons in a study
What is Population
400
This survey measure the extent of crime by interviewing individuals about their experiences as victims
What is Victimization
400
This Naval Officer and former NASA astronaut was charged in the attempting kidnapping of her former boyfriend current girlfriend
Who is Lisa Marie Nowak
500
Requires the criminal act must be accompanied by an equally criminal mind
What is Concurrence
500
A research technique in which an investigator introduces a change into a process in order to make measurements or observations that evaluate the effects of the change
What is Experiment
500
This survey requires respondents to answer in a confidential interview or, most often, by completing an anonymous questionnaire