According to Cohen and Felson, for a predatory crime to take place, the three essential ingredients--motivated offenders, suitable targets, and an absence of guardianship--must ______.

A. converge in time and space
B. converge in time only
C. occur independently of one another
D. converge in a specific sequence


A. converge in time and space

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a. Security barriers b. Target hardening c. Computer firewalls d. All of these

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What is the rule for remembering what information to include in a properly written police report?

What will be an ideal response?

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What type of sampling procedure is most useful for interviewing widely disperse populations?

a. stratified b. cluster c. snowball d. probability

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The social, family, and psychological experiences that are believed to increase the probability that an individual will engage in persistent criminal behavior are known as ________ factors

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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