______ involve geographic areas with clusters of criminal offenses occurring within a specific interval of time.

a. Hot spots
b. Crackdowns
c. Crime maps
d. Stop and frisks


a. Hot spots

Criminal Justice

You might also like to view...

The case study in this chapter is about Whitey Bulger, a notorious gangster from South Boston. What was Bulger’s involvement with crime?

a. embezzlement and tax evasion b. extortion rackets and embezzlement c. narcotics distribution and extortion rackets d. narcotics distribution and tax evasion

Criminal Justice

For the following data, find the mode, median, and mean.

23, 32, 45, 45, 32, 46, 61, 37, 29, 32, 50, 47 What will be an ideal response?

Criminal Justice

Those who are detained prior to trial are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than those who are released pending trial

a. True b. False

Criminal Justice

Even though the _______is the predominant source of crime data in the country, there are numerous questions about the accuracy of its findings

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Criminal Justice