According to Levitt, all but which of following is true regarding crime rates?
a. Controlling for other factors, there is a statistically significant but substantively small relationship between unemployment rates and property crime.
b. Violent crime does not vary systematically with the unemployment rate.
c. Changes in U.S. gun laws in the 1980s and 1990s, allowing for the carrying of concealed weapons by the average citizen, can account for a significant portion of the reduction in rate of crime during the 1990s decade.
d. The "echo" of the baby boom led to a temporary increase in the number of teenagers and young adults during the 1990s—and thus offset most of the expected effects of the "aging" baby boom generation.
e. The impact that policing strategies had on the crime rate in 1990s is likely to have been minor—at best.
c
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The highest rate of serious mental illness among U.S. adults is for persons ages
a. 18-25. b. 26-39. c. 40-59. d. 60-75.
Which of the following conditions is most conducive to recruiting supporters?
a. knowing someone already in the movement b. being a physically isolated person c. belonging to a church d. having friends
Which group or cause became the primary driver of the Temperance Movement according to the author of this chapter?
a. industrialization and excessive drinking proved to be incompatible for a compliant and productive working class b. foreign immigrants who were believed to drink in excess c. alcohol fueled the abuse of women d. drinking less would better acclimate the new immigrants to the previous levels of morality and social drinking
Which of the following is true of gender and victimization?
a) Male victims are more likely to be victimized by female offenders. b) Female victims are more likely to be victimized by strangers. c) Female offenders are more likely to kill members of the opposite sex. d) Female offenders are more likely to kill members of the same sex.