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"Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency" Did a study with 500 delinquents and 500 non. The most important factor distinguishing delinquents from non was family life. - Answers Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
A research m...
"Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency" Did a study with 500 delinquents and 500 non. The most important
factor distinguishing delinquents from non was family life. - Answers Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
A research method that involves describing social or cultural life based on direct, systematic
observation, such as becoming a participant in a social system - Answers Ethnography
A research method used to explore the geographic distrubution of crime and delinquency and the social
conditions that characterize areas with high rates of crime and delinquency. In ecological analysis,
geographic areas, such as neighborhoods or cities, rather than the individuals who reside in them, are
the units of analysis. - Answers Ecological analysis
Persons under 18 comprise a ___ portion of crimes - Answers small
Desist - Answers Some people never age out of crime
Why are more kids getting arrested for arson? - Answers It's easier to obtain those rather than a gun
Juvenile delinquency is a __ related phenomenon - Answers group
As seriousness of offense ___ the greater the likelihood it will be committed by or perpetuated by an
adult. - Answers increases
shows the number of offenses per a specific portion of the population - Answers crime rates
shows crime rates over time and the percent change in rates from one point in time to another -
Answers crime trends
Uniform Crime Report was first collected in ___ but not used until __ . - Answers 1930 1960
The ___ compiles UCR data and publishes ___ annually. - Answers FBI Crime in the US
An advantage of using UCR data is its ___ . IT represents 95% of the total US population - Answers
coverage
UCR provides information about the ___ ___crimes - Answers most serious
The UCR separates crime into __ parts. - Answers two
Part 1 crimes of the UCR are ___ ___ such as murder, robbery, burglary. - Answers serious offenses
Part 1 crimes are also divided into __ and __ crimes - Answers violent property
Part 2 crimes of the UCR are __ or vice crimes. These include counterfeiting, fraud, drug abuse, DUI,
gambling - Answers simple
, The heirarchial (counting) rule - Answers The uniform crime report asks that only the most serious
crimes be recorded if there are multiple crimes
Advantages of UCR __ __ and __. - Answers coverage, systematic collection since 1930, accurate source
of violent crimes
Advantage of UCR : coverage - Answers Data is gathered from 95% of nations' population
Advantage of UCR: systematic collection since 1930 - Answers This provides analysis of long term trends
in reported crimes
Advantage of UCR: very accurate source of violent crimes - Answers particularly true for homicide
Disadvantages of UCR : __ at the individual and organizational level - Answers police bias
Disadvantages of UCR: __ in enforcement of crimes and levels of ___ ___ among departments - Answers
variability organizational structure
Ethnography - Answers A research method that involves describing social or cultural life based on direct,
systematic observation, such as becoming a participant in a social system.
__ often immerse themselves as participants in the social system they are studying. - Answers
Ethnographers
The researchers vantage point from within the setting being studied is that hallmark and primary
strength of __ research - Answers ethnography
1. disadvantage of UCR : - Answers counting rule
2. disadvantage of UCR: - Answers Dark figure of crime (unreported crimes)
3. disadvantage of UCR: - Answers Police bias at the individual and organizational level
4. disadvantage of UCR: - Answers variability in enforcement of crimes and levels of organizational
structure among departments
5. disadvantage of UCR: - Answers no data on victimless crimes
The dark figure of crime - Answers The gap between the amount of crime that is reported to the police
and the amount of crime that actually occurs (about 66% of all crimes go unreported to police)
Involves asking samples of offenders about offending behavior - Answers self report data
can be gathered in the form of a survey or face to face interview - Answers self report data
emerged in the 1960s by james short. jr. and are now primary source of criminological data - Answers
self report data
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