Chapter 2 - CCJ3024 Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Chapter 2 - CCJ3024 Exam Questions With
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The most common methods for collecting crime data are: - answer1) official reports of
reported crimes, 2) data secured from victims, and 3) data from self-report studies.
What are the two major sources of official crime data in the US? - a...
Chapter 2 - CCJ3024 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
The most common methods for collecting crime data are: - answer✔1) official reports of
reported crimes, 2) data secured from victims, and 3) data from self-report studies.
What are the two major sources of official crime data in the US? - answer✔The Uniform Crime
Reports (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
What does the UCR report? - answer✔The UCR reports crime data that come to the attention of
police through their own observation or through reports from others. It also includes murder and
arson - not included in the NCVS.
Which of the two is used more frequently? - answer✔the UCR.
What information do these two reports disclose? - answer✔How many crimes were reported, and
how many arrests were made.
The UCR consists of crime data collected by the... - answer✔FBI.
Known as Part I, or index offenses, they include... - answer✔murder, nonnegligent manslaughter,
forcible rape, robbery, aggrevated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.
Congress added arson to the list in 1979 and renamed it "the modified crime index".
The most serious crimes are... - answer✔property crimes.
How is the national crime rate calculated? - answer✔By dividing the number of Part I reported
crimes by the number of people in the country.
Offenses can be cleared in two ways... - answer✔1) when a suspect is arrested, charged, and
turned over to the judicial system for prosecution, and 2) by circumstances beyond the control of
the police (suspects death, etc).
What is the clearance rate? - answer✔The clearance rate is the number of crimes solved,
expressed as a percentage of the total number of crimes reported to the police.
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