Deck 1: Identifying and Evaluating Crime Control

Question 1

Which of the following crimes causes the greatest fear in the minds of most Americans?

A) white-collar crimes
B) violent crimes
C) property crimes
D) morality crimes

Answer 1

violent crimes

Question 2

Quantitative research typically involves

A) a conclusive legislative change in a law.
B) descriptive and in-depth research on a specific group or location.
C) diffusing salient issues between researchers.
D) statistical analysis of a large number of cases in a given population.

Answer 2

statistical analysis of a large number of cases in a given population.

Question 3

Who signed the Patriot Act into law following the events of September 11^th?

A) President Clinton
B) Supreme Court Justice O'Connor
C) President Bush
D) Senator Ted Kennedy

Answer 3

President Bush

Question 4

The Elusive Criminal Justice Experiment means that

A) it is hard to determine with absolute certainty if approaches to control crime are successes or failures.
B) legislators are highly effective in creating social policy to eliminate crime.
C) social phenomena such as crime is relatively simple to measure and thus produces a concrete field for study.
D) criminologists lack the expertise to properly identify and study a macro-level crime problem.

Question 5

Crime control polices that push crime into other neighborhoods is a problem known as

A) diffusion.
B) displacement.
C) redirection.
D) confusion.

Question 6

Which of the following terms denotes researchers who have an interest in receiving funding to research a hot topic?

A) bandwagon science
B) original research
C) academic crusader
D) cross-sectional researcher

Question 7

Targeting low-level crimes, such as street-level drug dealing and prostitution, in an effort to deter more serious crime is known as the

A) fractured society theory
B) fragmented circle theory
C) broken windows theory
D) collapsed neighborhood theory

Question 8

A private foundation supplying a criminal justice agency with funding is providing

A) solution funding.
B) soft money.
C) hard money.
D) research shortage funding.

Question 9

Which type of science would evaluate the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program?

A) soft sciences
B) determinate sciences
C) hard sciences
D) indeterminate sciences

Question 10

A method used to determine whether an approach to the crime problem is a success or failure is called

A) process evaluation.
B) learning outcomes.
C) methodology analysis.
D) outcome evaluation.

Question 11

Micro-level crime control is

A) one that affects many people.
B) concerned with large numbers of individuals.
C) more isolated geographically.
D) seen as affecting an entire state or nation.

Question 12

Which of the following is not a type of displacement?

A) spatial
B) vector
C) tactical
D) target

Question 13

Science used by someone to advance their own political priorities is known as a(n)

A) academic attention getter.
B) academic lobbyist.
C) academic crusade.

Question 14

A person who evades paying taxes is committing what type of crime?

A) white-collar crime
B) violent crime
C) property crime
D) morality crime

Question 15

Determining whether the addition of more patrol officers reduces crime in a specific beat or precinct, is an example of

A) input.
B) output.
C) evaluation.
D) summation.

Question 16

The mass media heightens people's fear of crime.

Question 17

As crime rates decline, people tend to express less fear of being a crime victim.

Question 18

Public order crimes such as prostitution, pornography, gambling and substance abuse are called morality crimes.

Question 19

Tax evasion is a white-collar crime.

Question 20

Criminology is called a hard science.

Question 21

Longitudinal studies take place at a single point in time.

Question 22

An academic crusade involves the practice of convincing others that one approach to crime control is superior to another.

Question 23

Decriminalization expands the number of activities that are defined as criminal.

Question 24

Three-strikes legislation is solely intended to control crime and not to prevent it.

Question 25

Crime reduction policies can cause criminal activity to be displaced.

Question 26

________ constitutes the "bread and butter" of crime control.

Question 27

________ is a type of research that involves number-crunching and statistical analysis of data.

Question 28

________ can drive crime problems into neighboring areas.

Question 29

________ knowledge can be considered tentative, because researchers use different measures to represent the same phenomenon.

Question 30

The funding of a police agency through the appropriations process is termed ________.

Question 31

A researcher following the same group over a long period of time is conducting ________.

Question 32

________ is a problem concerned with the extent to which researchers' findings can be carried over to a series of locations.

Question 33

________ research is a study that takes place at a single point in time.

Question 34

________ crime is ill-defined but generally consists of crimes committed by people during the course of their professional careers.

Question 35

________ of crime is concerned with crime patterns over time.

Question 36

Explain what is meant by the term victimization paradox and describe its consequences.

Question 37

Define the term displacement and provide some examples of the various types.

Question 38

Describe the elements of a classical experiment and explain why it is not commonly used in the field of criminal justice.