Which of the following is NOT true of the Candid Camera project?
a. The Seattle Police Department installed hidden cameras in seventy-five commercial establishments identified as high-risk potential robbery victims.
b. The pretest for experimental and control groups consisted of gathering statistics on the percentage of robberies cleared by arrest and conviction rates.
c. A posttest comparing the groups found that 55 percent of the robberies of experimental companies were cleared by arrest versus 25 percent of the control firms.
d. According to posttest findings, 19 percent of robbers at hidden camera sites were convicted, compared with 48 percent of the control group robbers.
d
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What major threat has changed the purpose of criminal justice organizations and how they function?
A. Recession B. Terrorism C. Communism D. Immigration
The values of gamma generated by correlations between two variables can achieve ±1.00
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Terrorist groups and incidents rose dramatically after the ______, possibly due to a peak in the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
a. 1920s b. 1940s c. 1960s d. 1980s
Why are quarantines and evacuations sometimes an ineffective response to WMD terrorism?
a. Quarantines do not actually prevent disease from spreading and evacuations bottleneck highways. b. A lot of the people very susceptible to disease do not have cars. c. Most Americans are no longer watching TV for news and would probably not get the message in time. d. The public may not comply with quarantine or evacuation orders and, in fact, the imposition of a quarantine may make matters worse by generating panic where there was none.