Which of the following statements is true of the methods that are used to measure crime?

A. The dark figure of crime is the group of reported and recorded crimes that take place past midnight.
B. The Uniform Crime Reports contain crimes reported and unreported by the police.
C. Self-reports tell us about crimes committed by people who were never caught.
D. Crime Index is a self-report approach that examines the experiences of an individual offender at length and in detail and can suggest useful
hypotheses to test later with a larger sample of the same kind of offender.


Answer: C

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