Identify and discuss the problems associated with victim surveys.
What will be an ideal response?
? Cost of large samples
? False reporting
? Mistaken interpretation of incidents
? Sampling bias
? Overreporting and/or underreporting
? Memory failure, decay, and telescoping
? Interviewer effects
? Coding and mechanical error
? Problems measuring certain crimes
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a. X-ray diffraction b. Mass spectrometry c. Infrared spectrophotometry d. Ion-mobility spectrometry
Regarding murder-suicide, the large majority of the cases are female-on-male
a. True b. False
Make an argument for why most police departments are centralized rather than decentralized in the United States.
What will be an ideal response?
If girls are raised to be less assertive, less dominant, and more gentle and nurturing, crime rates will be lower. This suggests a ____ explanation of lower crime rates
a. Biological b. Psychological c. Sociological d. Structural