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

1. Unrecorded crime, or the dark figure of crime, as it was referred to by early European criminologists, has always escaped such official statistics.
2. Target surveys involve questioning a representative sample of the population to obtain an estimate of victimization, a portion of which is not reported to the police.
3. Crime panel consists of repeated interviews every six months to bound or provides a benchmark for reports.
4. Bounding is the initial interview in a panel and serves as a boundary or means of establishing exactly when events have taken place.
5. 5. Because of careful planning and execution, victim surveys never experience problems relating to false reporting or sampling bias.


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

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