Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology International Edition 6th Edition – Test Bank

Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology, International Edition 6th Edition by Michael G – Test Bank

Chapter 6

TEST BANK

TRUE/FALSE

1.  Researchers must decide on offenses, units, and purposes before specifying measures of crime.

ANS: T

REF: 153

LO: 1

2.  Crimes must at a minimum have an offender, because without an offender there is no crime.

ANS: T

REF: 153

LO: 3

3.  A single incident cannot include multiple offenses but may have one offense and multiple offenders.

ANS: F

REF: 154

LO: 3

4.  For fear of being sued, governmental agencies rarely keep records that document their actions and areas of responsibility.

ANS: F

REF: 155

LO: 4

5.  The UCR accounts for all types of crime, even those crimes that are not observed.

ANS: F

REF: 157

LO: 5

6.  NIBRS reports each crime incident rather than the total number of certain crimes.

ANS: T

REF: 160

LO: 5

7.  One important step in selecting a measure of crime is deciding what crimes will be included.

ANS: T

REF: 153

LO: 1

8.  Methods of reporting crime are never updated and have been continually used since their inception.

ANS: F

REF: 156

LO: 6

9.  Delinquency, victimless crimes, and crimes rarely observed may be measured by self-report studies.

ANS: T

REF: 169

LO: 8

10.  The NIBRS has a relatively low level of sophistication and cost.

ANS: F

REF: 160

LO: 5

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1.  Which of the following is a fundamental variable in criminal justice and criminology?

1. timeliness
2. applicability
3. crime
4. arrest rates

ANS: C

REF: 153

LO: 1

2.  The broad questions that influence all measures of crime include all of the following:

1. what offenses should be measured
2. what units of analysis should be used
3. why do offenders commit crimes
4. what is the research or policy purpose in measuring crime

ANS: C

REF: 153

LO: 1, 4

3.  Which of the following is not a general purpose of measuring crime?

1. monitoring
2. agency accountability
3. deterrence
4. research

ANS: C

REF: 154

LO: 4