How does technology arm criminals with new methods of crime commission while simultaneously providing criminal justice personnel with the tools to combat crime?

What will be an ideal response?


Both criminals and criminal justice personnel may use the same technological advances; law enforcement capabilities and criminally useful technologies frequently leapfrog each other.

For example, traffic radar is used by law enforcement to catch individuals breaking speed limit laws. These offenders are now using radar-jamming devices to outwit the police radar. As a result, radar-detector detectors are used by the police in states where radar detectors have been outlaws.

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According to the data presented in the Chapter, what percentage of hate crimes reported to the FBI by police agencies are murder and nonnegligent manslaughter?

A. Less than 1% B. At least 5% C. 7% D. 20%

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Which agency performs most of HUMINT?

A) National Security Agency ?B) Central Intelligence Agency C) National Intelligence Council ?D) Defense Intelligence Agency

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The process by which criminals attempt to conceal the illicit origin and ownership of the proceeds from their unlawful activities is called piracy. 2. One million dollars in $100 bills can fit into one doctor’s bag of standard size and be simply carried out of the country. 3. Pirates are especially active today off Africa’s west coast. 4. Because of the definitions used, it is possible to have both “domestic trafficking” and “domestic smuggling.”

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The primary theoretical perspective used to explain the fact that victims and offenders who are intimately known to each other are disproportionately represented in homicide statistics is the

a. general theory of crime. b. subculture of violence thesis. c. selective disinhibition. d. critical criminological perspective

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