Record keeping in criminal justice is a _____. Indicators of all variables such as arrests, juvenile probation violations, court convictions, or rule infractions by prison inmates reflect decisions made by criminal justice officials in addition to the actual
Behavior of juvenile or adult offenders.

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A. The correct answer is "A" because record keeping in criminal justice is a social process. Most of the variables studied in criminal justice are infractions by offenders and the decisions made by criminal justice officials in addition to the actual behavior of juvenile or adult offenders. Researchers must realize that performance measures are composites of offenders' behavior, organizational capacity to detect behavior, and decisions about how to respond to offenders' misbehavior.
B. This is an incorrect answer because record keeping in criminal justice is a social process. Most of the variables studied in criminal justice are infractions by offenders and the decisions made by criminal justice officials in addition to the actual behavior of juvenile or adult offenders. Researchers must realize that performance measures are composites of offenders' behavior, organizational capacity to detect behavior, and decisions about how to respond to offenders' misbehavior.
C. This is an incorrect answer because record keeping in criminal justice is a social process. Most of the variables studied in criminal justice are infractions by offenders and the decisions made by criminal justice officials in addition to the actual behavior of juvenile or adult offenders. Researchers must realize that performance measures are composites of offenders' behavior, organizational capacity to detect behavior, and decisions about how to respond to offenders' misbehavior.
D. This is an incorrect answer because record keeping in criminal justice is a social process. Most of the variables studied in criminal justice are infractions by offenders and the decisions made by criminal justice officials in addition to the actual behavior of juvenile or adult offenders. Researchers must realize that performance measures are composites of offenders' behavior, organizational capacity to detect behavior, and decisions about how to respond to offenders' misbehavior.

Record Keeping in Criminal Justice Is a _____