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Crime Reporting
Causes of crime
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crime
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  1. Which type of crime reporting involves collecting samples from a limited number of subjects?
    1. Incident report
    2. NIBRS
    3. Surveys
    4. UCR

C- Surveys

100
  1. Which is the prevention of people in general or society at large from engaging in crime by punishing specific individuals and making examples of them?
    1. Crime punishment
    2. General deterrence
    3. Public humiliation
    4. Specific deterrence

B- General Deterrence

100
  1. Which is an assumption that attempts to explain why or how things are related to each other?
    1. Crime
    2. Data
    3. Religion
    4. Theory

d- theory

100
  1. Which is used to collect data for reported crime, including accounts from each incident and arrest in 22 crime patterns?
    1. Incident report
    2. Field notes
    3. NIBRS
    4. UCR

c- NIBRS

200
  1. Which type of crime reporting, conducted by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Census Bureau asks people to report on their own victimization?
    1. National Crime Victim’s Survey (NCVS)
    2. National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
    3. National Crime Database
    4. Uniformed Crime Reporting (UCR)

a-National Crime Victim’s Survey (NCVS)

200
  1. Which theory is based on the belief that criminals are physiologically different from non-criminals?
    1. Biological theory
    2. Deterrence theory
    3. Economic theory
    4. Sociological theory

a- Biological Theory 

200
  1. Sigmund Freud was a key contributor to which criminological theory?
    1. Biological theory
    2. Economical theory
    3. Neoclassical theory
    4. Psychological theory

d- psychological

200
  1. Which is the most under-reported crime in the United States?
    1. Arson
    2. Burglary
    3. Larceny
    4. Sexual assaults

d- sexual assaults

300
  1. Which percentage of rape and sexual assaults go unreported in the United States?
    1. 10%
    2. 25%
    3. 75%
    4. 90%

d-90

300
  1. Studies under this theory found that neighborhoods that experienced high delinquency rates also experienced social disorganization.
    1. Biological theory
    2. Chicago School theory
    3. Sociological theory
    4. Strain theory

B- Chicago School Theory

300
  1. Which criminological theory assumes that a criminal’s behavior is determined by his/her social environment and reject the notion of the “born criminal”?
    1. biological theory
    2. Psychological theory
    3. Sociological theory
    4. Strain theory

c-sociological

300
  1. Which is calculated by dividing the number of crimes that are “cleared” by the total number of crimes recorded?
    1. Clearance rate
    2. Crime rate
    3. Solvability rate
    4. Total crime

a-clearance rate

400
  1. Clearance rates can be a good method for measuring performance of police and for comparing various police services.
    1. True
    2. False

b-false

400
  1. Which theory proposes that people’s relationships, commitments, values, norms, and beliefs encourage them not to break the law?
    1. Biological theory
    2. Chicago School theory
    3. Social Control theory
    4. Strain theory

c- social control theory 

400
  1. Which is the explanation of criminal behavior?
    1. Criminological explanations
    2. Criminological data
    3. Criminological theory
    4. Criminological studies

c- criminological theory 

400
  1. How are crime rates determined?
    1. Number of total crimes in an area
    2. Number of crimes per 100,000 people
    3. Total reported crimes divided by unreported crimes
    4. Total reported crimes minus unreported crimes

b-100,000 people

500
  1. Murder, arson, and larceny are examples of which type of crimes in the Uniformed Crime Report (UCR)?
    1. Active crimes
    2. Part I Index crimes
    3. Part II non-index crimes
    4. Violent crimes

b-part 1 index crimes

500
  1. _____________ is based on biological, psychological, sociological, economic factors, or some combination.
    1. Crime
    2. Data
    3. Religion
    4. Theory

a- crime

500

Which criminological theory is based on the assumption that people exercise free will and are thus completely responsible for their actions?

a. Biological Theory

b. Classical Theory

C. Neoclassical Theory

D. Sociological Theory 

B. Classical Theory

500

No person who, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacks capacity to understand the proceedings against the person or to assist in the person’s own defense shall be tried, convicted, or sentenced for the commission of an offense so long as such incapacity endures. True or false

A- true