Describe the two types of burglaries and explain how targets are selected
What will be an ideal response?
• The two types are residential and commercial burglary. Residential burglars may focus on apartments or houses and usually work the higher-income areas of town. Warehouses, stores, taverns, and restaurants are all common targets of commercial burglaries. In both cases target selection involves: familiarity and convenience, occupancy, visibility, accessibility, vulnerability, and potential rewards.
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All of the following are criticisms of Lombroso and Ferrero EXCEPT for ______.
A. Small sample size B. Heterogeneity of sample C. Assumptions lack scientific basis D. Failure to control for additional environmental factors
How was the JRA a turning point for the Japanese government?
a. The JRA successfully made the government bend to their communistic will and effected a lot of changes. b. It began ignoring terrorism as a problem to be solved and reduced police reaction and negotiation c. It began treating terrorism as a problem that must be solved with international cooperation and not police reaction and negotiation. d. The military saw that they could change a lot of things in Japan and so they formed “an army within an army.”
Your textbook names three distinct functions of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profiling. Which of the following is NOT one of these distinct functions?
A. identifying "cold hits," where a sample from a crime scene is matched against numerous cases in a DNA database and a positive match is made B. collecting samples from all people at birth, so that a complete DNA database can be compiled C. clearing innocent people convicted of rape and murder years after they began serving their sentences D. linking or eliminating identified suspects to a crime
"Bookmaking" means a scheme by ___ or more persons to receive, record, or forward a bet.
a. 3 b. 5 c. 7 d. 15