Deck 12: Crime Analysis

Question 1

Crime analysis starts with crime mapping, which begins with the principle that crime is a completely random occurrence.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

One of the most prevalent problem solving models is Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment (SARA).

Answer 2

True

Question 3

None of the data a crime analyst may use comes outside the analyst's agency.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Deploying officers to an area with a high crime rate can displace the crime, but not necessarily solve the problem.

Question 5

Most crime is committed by a relatively small percentage of the community.

Question 6

A serial crime is a single crime committed by multiple offenders.

Question 7

Modern crime analysis cannot be conducted with out Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capabilities.

Question 8

The crime data used for crime analysis routinely comes from the analyst agency.

Question 9

A hot spot is an area which has had an appreciable decrease in crime.

Question 10

Temporal forecasting is an analysis conducted in order to determine the most likely location of the next occurrence.

Question 11

At their core, the function of state and local law enforcement agencies remain prevention, investigation and ________.

A) confinement
B) incarceration
C) prosecution
D) apprehension

Question 12

When police officers are deployed to an area experiencing an increase in crime there is often a decrease in crime. However, if the extra officers leave the area and crime returns it is generally believed that the officers had ________ the crime.

A) displaced
B) solved
C) removed
D) stopped

Question 13

Serial crimes are those crimes committed by the same person or person and are distinctly ________ by time and location.

A) linked
B) connected
C) related
D) separated

Question 14

Crime analysis requires not only computer skills and analytical skills but also a general knowledge of ________, an understanding of police procedure and investigative abilities.

A) math concepts
B) the community
C) statistical precepts
D) forensic science

Question 15

In a single-symbol map, each point on the map is represented by ________ of symbol.

A) numerous types
B) a different type
C) varying types
D) the same type

Question 16

The most prevalent type of problem solving model used by law enforcement officers is SARA which stands for Scanning, ________, Response and ________.

A) Appraisal; Assumption
B) Analysis; Assessment
C) Assumption; Appraisal
D) Assessment; Analysis

Question 17

The area where serial offenders tend to commit their crimes is called ________. They stay away from areas they would be readily recognized, like their own neighborhoods.

A) a hot spot
B) a mean center
C) a profile
D) an activity space

Question 18

Spatial Forecasting is use past events in an effort to determine the most like ________ of the next crime.

A) axis
B) time
C) center
D) location

Question 19

An analyst would use a Graduated Symbol map to represent multiple crimes at a location (like an apartment building). A graduated symbol could ________ to represent multiple incidents.

A) change its shape
B) get larger or change color
C) vary its shape or color
D) get larger, but not change color

Question 20

Probably the most common maps produced by crime analyst are ________. These maps simply map the total number of crimes in a specific area.

A) crime density maps
B) crime change maps
C) crime bulletin maps
D) crime demographic maps

Question 21

An essential part of problem solving, and thus community orientated policing, is an examination of:

A) The relationship of incidents to underlying problems
B) The relationship of incidents to each other
C) Incidents
D) all of the above

Question 22

The theory that says the reason an offender commits a crime is the result of the offender opportunity and rational choice coming together is known as:

A) Situational Crime Prevention
B) Rational Choice
C) Normative Sponsorship
D) Economies of Scale

Question 23

Which of the following are factors involved in Routine Activity Theory?

A) A victim
B) The lack of a restraining force
C) An offender
D) all of the above

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT true about forecasting?

A) Attempting to predict future events by using past events as a guide is called forecasting.
B) Forecasting can be temporal.
C) A problem with forecasting is determining an exact time a crime occurred.
D) Forecasting can be spatial.

Question 25

Which of the following is NOT true about crime analysis?

A) The confidence levels for temporal forecasting are somewhat different than those for spatial forecasting.
B) When conducting an analysis of serial crimes an analysis determines the mean center.
C) Crime analysis requires Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
D) A review of criminal investigations or crime scenes will not cause a crime to be removed from the data set.

Question 26

What crime analysis activity is used with serial crimes and typically only with the most serious crimes? It looks at where an offender potentially works, lives, socializes and postulates that people tend to follow predictable patterns.

A) Spatial Forecasting
B) Temporal Forecasting
C) Geographic Profiling
D) Standard Deviation Ellipse Forecasting

Question 27

Which economic theory is used in crime analysis? It basically says that people have preferences in outcomes.

A) Routine Activity Theory
B) Rationale Choice Theory
C) Critical Social Theory
D) Normative Sponsorship Theory

Question 28

What is the term used to describe a short-term solution that stops crime from occurring in a particular place and/or time?

A) Incapacitation
B) Displacement
C) Standard Deviation
D) Standard Departure

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT needed for the analysis of crime?

A) Specific computer software
B) A Desktop Personal Computer
C) Data
D) none of the above

Question 30

Which of the following terms best describes what happens if crime analysis is used to identify and capture serial offenders?

A) Plotting
B) Displacement
C) Incapacitation
D) Routine Activity