The publication produced by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that includes information about hundreds of justice agency data sets, characteristics of criminal justice agencies, and perceptions of crime, to name just a few, is:
a. the Uniform Crime Reports
b. the National Crime Victimization Survey
c. the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
d. the National Crime Victimization Survey
c
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Which of the following is an approach being used in the United Kingdom to reduce confrontational homicide according to your text?
A. Lowering the alcoholic content of Guinness. B. Designing more spacious pubs. C. Adding video cameras to parking lots at pubs and clubs. D. Early intervention training with children in primary schools.
Nearly nine in ten violent crimes involve alcohol
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to the text, _____ is extremely damaging because if may cause adolescents to seek deviant peers whose behavior amplifies the effect of the labeling
a. School failure b. Parental labeling c. Adjudication d. Community labeling
In which of the following steps in constructing a frequency distribution would the use of over or under categories for extreme cases be a major exception?
a. deciding on the number of categories (classes) into which the data will be grouped b. ensuring that the groups cover the entire distribution, with the within-group intervals as equal in size as possible c. assigning each case to one and only one group d. assigning each case to multiple groups