Deck 2: Measuring and Comparing

Question 1

Which of the following of our model countries has the lowest homicide rates?

A)France
B)Saudi Arabia
C)China
D)United States

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The CTS questionnaire consists of four parts dealing primarily with statistical information about the main components of the ____________________ and an __________.

Answer 2

Criminal justice system,Annex

Question 3

Which crime statistics initiative collects data on every incident and arrest within 22 offense categories made up of 46 specific crimes?

A)Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
B)National Incident‑Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
C)The National Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS)
D)The Dark figure of crime

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are compiled by:

A)Interpol
B)The United Nations
C)Independent police stations
D)The Federal Bureau of Investigation

Question 5

Which model country has the lowest overall crime rates?

A)Japan
B)Saudi Arabia
C)China
D)Germany

Question 6

Which crime statistics assembly method involves people reporting their own delinquent and criminal acts?

A)National Crime Victimization Surveys
B)Self‑Report Surveys
C)National Incident-Based Reporting
D)Uniform Crime Report

Question 7

The best available sources of international crime data are:

A)Self-Report Surveys
B)Interpol Data
C)International Victimization Surveys
D)National Crime Victimization Surveys

Question 8

______________ is a worldwide problem that directly or indirectly touches every one of us in multiple ways.

Question 9

The first attempt to collect data on crime at the international level occurred at:

A)The General Statistical Congress in Brussels
B)International Congress on the Prevention and Repression of Crime in London
C)The Conference of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation
D)The Economic and Social Council of the UN

Question 10

When looking at the 10 crimes surveyed by the ICVS, in comparison to the model countries the United States has:

A)Highest overall crime rates
B)Lowest overall crime rates
C)Not the highest or lowest overall crime rates
D)Highest rates in some categories

Question 11

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are collected by individual _______________ and compiled by the _________________ annually.

Question 12

Which of the following is not one of the three major perspectives of a criminal incident:

A)The perspective of the offender
B)The perspective of the victim
C)The perspective of the media
D)The perspective of the police

Question 13

Which of the following collects information from member countries about crime rates and the operations of the criminal justice systems?

A)Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
B)International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS)
C)National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
D)United Nations Surveys of Crime and Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (CTS)

Question 14

Which of the following is not one of the crimes that the National Crime Victimization Survey collects data on?

A)Rape
B)Larceny
C)Murder
D)Motor vehicle theft

Question 15

_____________ evaluates the probability that certain crimes will occur and their potential harm.

Question 16

The primary collection tool used in the International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) is:

A)Paper surveys
B)Email surveys
C)Face to face interviews
D)Computer assisted telephone interviewing

Question 17

Which one of the following regions has one of the highest homicide rates?

A)Western Europe
B)East Asia
C)Central America
D)Southeastern Europe

Question 18

Collecting data about crime in any one country over an extended period of time allows us to distinguish ______________ from ____________.

Question 19

Which problem has plagued comparative researches for many years in regards to international crime statistics?

A)Lack of standard definitions of crime
B)Lack of resources
C)Lack of cooperation between countries
D)Lack of statistical methods

Question 20

The majority of the American Crime problem is one of:

A)White collar crime
B)Violent crime
C)Property crime
D)Victimless crime

Question 21

At the root of the problem of non-standardized definitions is the issue of determining what a _________ is versus what is __________.

Question 22

Self-report surveys are used mostly with adults and usually in national samples.

Question 23

There is fairly close correspondence between the crime definitions used by the UCR and NCVS, which makes it possible to assess national crime information from the viewpoint of the victim and the police.

Question 24

The ____________________________ study uses a standard instrument to compare juvenile rates of crime in 12 European locations and the United States.

Question 25

The ICVS is only interested in incidents reported to the police.

Question 26

Approximately _______ percent of all homicides are committed with firearms.

Question 27

Understanding crime trends is important both domestically and internationally.

Question 28

According to the ICVS, when taking all sexual offenses together, victims knew the offender in about half the cases.

Question 29

Interpol still reports data from its member countries.

Question 30

Measuring crime and comparing crime data does not provide clues as to why some nations are more successful than others in controlling crime rates.

Question 31

The ____________ is now the most extensive standardized survey of victims in the world.

Question 32

A _________________ is one with a high level of development, measured by indicators such as, gross domestic product and industrialization.

Question 33

The NCVS improves our knowledge of the true extent of crime by reducing the ______________ of crime.

Question 34

The CTS focuses more on information about criminal justice systems than on the measurement of crime.

Question 35

The NCVS finds that overall, approximately 50 percent of violent crimes and all property crimes are reported to the police.

Question 36

The best available sources of _____________________ are international victimization surveys.

Question 37

_______________ is helpful because it is able to compare information about known offenders with those who have not been caught.

Question 38

In regards to crime, perceived risk and social action are closely tied to each other.

Question 39

A ________________ is one with a low level of material and social development.It is measured by such indicators as income per person, life expectancy and literacy rates.

Question 40

The UCR program is _______________, so not all police departments report crime data every year.

Question 41

Why does the United States have such a high rate of violent crime?

Question 42

The data show that in recent years has been a general increase in homicide rates in most countries.

Question 43

Homicide rates should be more reliable than those for other crimes, because of the presence of a human body in nearly every case.

Question 44

China regularly reports high rates of crime each year.

Question 45

Explain Saudi Arabia's explanations for their low crime rate.Also, discuss any contradictory reasoning.

Question 46

List the three major perspectives of each criminal incident and discuss the type of data collection method that corresponds with each perspective.

Question 47

List four (4) out of five (5) reasons that some countries do not collect some form of crime data, according to Mueller.

Question 48

List and explain the four approaches to explaining criminal behavior discussed in the text.

Question 49

Easy access to guns is one factor that may contribute to the high homicide rates in the United States.

Question 50

What a country decides is illegal tells us something about that nation's social, economic, and political situation.

Question 51

Discuss the four (4) main flaws of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR).

Question 52

Explain some factors that influence Japan's low crime rate.