What happens when crime reduction programs produce a short-term positive effect, but benefits dissipate as criminals adjust to new conditions?
a. Diffusion
b. Discouragement
c. Displacement
d. Extinction
d
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The purpose of a theory is to define and explain the factors that influence or determine behavior and how the factors interrelate
a. true b. false
The expected response rate to mail questionnaires by large private survey organizations in the seventies was eighty percent
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Unknowingly receiving or offering to another any consideration for a promise not to prosecute or aid in the prosecution of an offender is known as:
a. compounding a crime b. misprision of a felony c. obstruction of justice d. solicitation of a felony
CASE 9.2 The criminal courts confront a double bind with regard to victims. On the one hand, victims are valued for the cases they bring to the system; their misfortunes become the raw material of the court process. On the other hand, individual victims represent a potential source of irrationality in the process. The personal and often emotional involvement of victims in the crime experience can generate particular demands for case outcomes that have little to do with the public interest. Members of the courtroom work group know that the same individual may, at different times, be:
A. a victim, a witness, and an offender. B. a victim and an offender. C. a witness and an offender. D. an offender.