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Which of the following crimes causes the greatest fear in the minds of most Americans?
Violent Crimes
Quantitative research typically involves…
less detailed research on a large number of cases
Who signed the Patriot Act into law following the events of September 11th?
President Bush
The Elusive Criminal Justice Experiment means that…
a true classical experiment is hard to create in some areas of crime control
Crime control policies that push crime into other neighborhoods is a problem known as…
Displacement
Which of the following terms denotes (indicates) researchers who have an interest in receiving funding to research a hot topic?
Bandwagon Science
Targeting low-level crimes, such as street-level drug dealing and prostitution, in an effort to deter more serious crimes is known as…
Broken Windows Theory
A private foundation supplying a criminal justice agency funding is providing…
Soft Money
Which type of science would evaluate the DARE program?
Soft Sciences
A method used to determine whether an approach to the crime problem is a success or failure is called…
Outcome Evaluation
Micro-level crime control is…
more isolated geographically
Which of the following is NOT a type of displacement?
Vector
Science used by someone to advance his or her own political priorities is known as a(n)
Academic Crusade
A person who evades paying taxes is committing what type of crime?
White-collar Crime
Determining whether the addition of more patrol officers reduces crime in a specific beat or precinct (district), is an example of…
Evaluation
Which of the following seeks to use the most rigorous scientific methodology available to identify and implement crime control techniques that are most likely to make the best use of taxpayer monies?
Evidence-based Justice
There is a great deal that we can do to effectively control crime, and the odds are that _______ will do the most to make society safer
Several approaches combined together
What type of legislation is intended to both prevent and control crime?
Three-Strikes
If someone surveys several people today and finds that there is a relationship between fear of crime and prior victimization, that is a…
Cross-Sectional Design
The ______ is concerned with the extent to which a researcher’s findings can be carried over to another location or series of locations
Generalization Problem
The mass media heightens people’s fear of crime.
True
As crime rates decline, people tend to express less fear of being a crime victim.
False
Public order crimes such as prostitution, pornography, gambling, and substance abuse are called vice crimes.
True
Tax evasion is a white collar crime
True
Criminology is called a hard science
False
Longitudinal studies take place at a single point in time
False
An academic crusade involves the practice of convincing others that one approach to crime control is superior to another.
False
Decriminalization expands the number of activities that are defined as criminal.
False
Three-strike legislation is solely intended to control crime and not to prevent it
False
Crime reduction polices can cause criminal activity to be displaced
True
____ law constitutes the “bread and butter” of crime control
Criminal
____ research involves number crunching and statistical analysis of data
Quantitative
_____ can drive crime problems into neighboring areas
Displacement
______ knowledge can be considered tentative (unsure), because researchers use different measures to represent the same phenomenon
Scientific
The funding of police agencies through the appropriations process is termed ____ money
Hard
A researcher following the same group over a long period of time is conducting ______ research
Longitudinal
______ is a problem concerned with the extent to which researchers’ findings' can be carried over to a series of locations
Generalization
_____ sectional research is a study that takes place at a single point in time
Cross
White-collar crime is ill-defined but generally consists of crimes committed by people during the course of their _____ careers
Professional
