One of the more accurate ways to measure changes in men's and women's respective criminal activity is to
A) study only crimes known to the police.
B) look at how many crimes each sex commits annually and calculate for each the percentage increase or decrease from year to year.
C) calculate sex-specific arrest rates (the number of arrests per 100,000 of the population) and then determining the sex differential in arrests.
D) none of the above
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Q1: Until 1971, states could maintain that women
Q2: Traditionally, criminological research on women focused on
A)
Q3: According to Freda Adler's study of the
Q4: Adler and Simon's argument that changes in
Q6: An alternative approach in examining the gender
Q7: From 1999-2008, women's arrest rates for _
Q8: A significant gender difference in the drug/crime
Q9: Which of the following explanations for the
Q10: Within police training academies and police departments
A)
Q11: Evidence indicates that female police officers
A) differ
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