- Description
CJA 346 Wk 1 – Concept Check
- Question 1
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Which of the following is the interdisciplinary science that gathers and analyzes data on crime and criminal behavior?
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Criminology
Theory
Sociology
Law
- Question 2
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Which of the following do criminologists use to try to answer questions, rather than simply philosophizing about them?
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Scientific procedure
Scientific method
Technique of natural science
Observational analysis
- Question 3
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Which of the following involves the study of individuals who commit harmful acts, regardless of the legal status of those acts?
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Crime
Criminology
Criminality
Law
- Question 4
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Which of the following is a set of logically interconnected propositions explaining how phenomena are related?
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Theory
Hypothesis
Ideology
Policy
- Question 5
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Crime is a socially constructed phenomenon that lacks any real objective essence and is defined into existence rather than discovered.
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- Question 6
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Which of the following can be defined as the actual number of reported crimes standardized by some unit of the population?
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Rate
Statistic
Degree
Ratio
- Question 7
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Which of the following is true of the number of crimes reported to police?
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It is the best source available to criminologists to assess the dark figure of crime.
This number is a direct reflection of the number of crimes actually committed.
Due to false reports, this number is larger than the number of crimes actually committed.
Due to unreported crimes, this number is smaller than the number of crimes actually committed.
- Question 8
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The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau on behalf of which organization?
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Homeland Security
The American Society of Criminology
- Question 9
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The hierarchy rule states that only the most serious offense be recorded in a multiple offense incident.
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- Question 10
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Murder is included in the victimization survey data.
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True
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False