In Sherman and colleagues' research dealing with crime hot spots they chose to use ‘calls for service' to local law enforcement as a means of measuring where different types of crimes happened with greatest frequency. They noted some problems with the use of calls for service. Which of the following represents those problems?
a. there is a potential for duplicate calls to local law enforcement for any one event
b. there may be false reports, in other words no crime happened
c. there can be misleading findings such as parking lots or hospitals may appear to be hot spots when in fact they are not
d. all of the above
d
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Victimization rates are highest for those children who reside in households with annual incomes less than ______ at the highest rate.
A. $30,000 B. $25,000 C. $20,000 D. $15,000
According to the authors, the endeavor to observe and measure the relationship between “cause and effect” led to a belief that criminality is not a matter of free will but is caused by which of the following?
a. biological b. psychological c. social disposition d. all of these
In the 1992 Supreme Court case, _____, the court ruled that the state's attorney is not required to produce young victims at trial or to demonstrate the reason they were unavailable to serve as witnesses
a. In re Gault b. White v. Illinois c. Stantosky v. Kramer d. Troxel v. Granville