CH 1: Identifying and Evaluating Crime Control

Crime Control Strategies

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