The concept that much more crime occurs than is reported to police is known as:

A. invisible crime
B. the dark figure of crime
C. lost crime
D. hidden crime
E. unreported crime


Answer: B

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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, interest and membership in outlaw motorcycle clubs swelled because of:

A) ?the civil rights movement. B) ?the return of disgruntled veterans from the Vietnam War. C) ?the persecution of hippies. D) ?the civil rights movement, return of disgruntled Vietnam War veterans, and the persecution of hippies

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Civil commitment and the inpatient treatment of the mentally ill faced a major transformation in the mid-1950s because of

a. psychotropic medication b. Supreme Court decisions c. The community mental health center movement d. none of the above

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a. is an interval created around an hypothesized mean value. b. is an interval created around the observed mean value. c. always overlaps or includes the population mean. d. is the result of point estimation.

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The single most important determinant of whether or not a case will be solved is the information the victim supplies to the ____________________

a. detective b. immediately responding patrol officer c. dispatcher d. supervisor

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