CRIM 249 Quiz 1 with correct answers 100% 2024
How do we calculate the crime rate? - Correct Answer Number of reported crimes/ total population times 100,00-
How does theory play a role in criminology? - Correct Answer Human behavior is complicated, so there are many different explanations fo...
CRIM 249 Quiz 1 with correct answers
100% 2024
How do we calculate the crime rate? - Correct Answer Number of reported crimes/ total population
times 100,00-
How does theory play a role in criminology? - Correct Answer Human behavior is complicated, so there
are many different explanations for the same relationship. Also, if we want to change behavior (reduce
crime), we need to understand it and make accurate predictions: Criminal Justice policies and costs of
poor theories and "see if it works" approaches
How is a scientific theory different from a scientific law? - Correct Answer Scientific theory a working
explanation of observations whereas scientific law is something that is found to be most likely true
What are the sources of qualitative data? - Correct Answer Observation (Participant and Non-
Participant), Interviews, and Ethnographies
What are the sources of Quantitative Data? - Correct Answer Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Self-Report Crime Victimization (NCVS)
What are the strengths of of the Uniform Crime Report? - Correct Answer Valid for many crimes
Problems tend to be stable over time, allowing trends and patterns to surface
Easy to access and inexpensive for research and practice
Allows for city and regional trend comparisons
Provides detailed information on reporting patterns, who is arrested, and homicides
What are the strengths of the National Crime Victimization On Survey (NCVS)? - Correct Answer Self-
reports include a lot of data that cannot be captured using official statistics
Provides information from offender/victim perspective
Specialization or generalization
Allows for between-person and within-person comparisons of crime and delinquency
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