Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. John Locke is known as the father of criminal justice.
2. The Industrial Revolution had the greatest impact on the classical school.
3. Virtually all primitive theories accurately predicted who would offend.
4. Beccaria was strongly opposed to the use of torture.
5. Specific deterrence is when a punishment is designed to stop other offenders from committing crimes.


1. False
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Descriptions of characteristics of crime and criminals can vary immensely, depending on the sources of information. 2. Statistics regarding crime and delinquency are easily measured. 3. Triangulation assists in providing multiple assessments of the subject matter. 4. Triangulation, which occurs when researchers allow their personal bias to shape their research, is one potential threat to the accuracy of our data on crime. 5. Data have improved recently, but because of variations in quality of data, definitions of crime, recording practices, ideological differences, and differences in measurement, (three things) caution is still warranted.

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Define evaluation research.

What will be an ideal response?

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Citizen police academy participants, citizen patrols and reservists are primarily, if not solely, __________.

A. certified professional officers B. paraprofessionals C. volunteers D. police academy dropouts

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