The tallies maintained by local law enforcement agencies are typically incomplete due to _____.
A) victim non-reporting
B) political pressures to downplay the number of incidents in order to manipulate public opinion
C) political pressures to inflate the number of incidents in order to manipulate public opinion
D) all of these
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Q4: Statistics can influence decision makers or shape
Q10: Data on victimization may be gathered through
Q18: Until the 1970s, few efforts were made
Q31: It is easy to 'lie' with statistics
Q33: For criminologists, self-report surveys confirmed the hypothesis
Q34: The National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Q36: The Uniform Crime Report was initially published
Q38: Patterns reflect predictable relationships or regular occurrences
Q39: The NCVS includes not only forcible rape
Q40: One of the problems affecting the accuracy
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