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Chapter 1 Identifying and Evaluating Crime Control
1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) Which of the following crimes causes the greatest fear in the minds of most Americans?
A) white-collar crimes
B) violent crimes
C) property crimes
D) morality crimes
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Discuss the dimensions of the crime problem in America.
Level: Intermediate
2) Quantitative research typically involves ________.
A) a conclusive legislative change in a law
B) descriptive and in-depth research on a specific group or location
C) diffusing salient issues between researchers
D) less detailed research on a large number of cases
Answer: D
Page Ref: 16
Objective: Explain various approaches to the crime problem.
Level: Intermediate
3) Who signed the Patriot Act into law following the events of September 11th?
A) President Clinton
B) Supreme Court Justice O'Connor
C) President Bush
D) Senator Ted Kennedy
Answer: C
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain various approaches to the crime problem.
Level: Basic
2
,4) The Elusive Criminal Justice Experiment means that ________.
A) a true classical experiment is hard to create in some areas of crime control
B) legislators are highly effective in creating social policy to eliminate crime
C) social phenomena such as crime is relatively simple to measure and thus produces a
concrete field for study
D) criminologists lack the expertise to properly identify and study a macro-level crime
problem
Answer: A
Page Ref: 14
Objective: Explain why scientific knowledge is tentative.
Level: Difficult
5) Crime control policies that push crime into other neighborhoods is a problem known as
________.
A) diffusion
B) displacement
C) redirection
D) confusion
Answer: B
Page Ref: 17
Objective: Define displacement and diffusion.
Level: Basic
6) Which of the following terms denotes researchers who have an interest in receiving funding
to research a hot topic?
A) bandwagon science
B) original research
C) academic crusader
D) cross-sectional researcher
Answer: A
Page Ref: 21
Objective: Explain how resources and political ideologies guide crime control priorities.
Level: Basic
3
, 7) Targeting low-level crimes, such as street-level drug dealing and prostitution, in an effort to
deter more serious crime is known as the ________.
A) fractured society theory
B) fragmented circle theory
C) broken windows theory
D) collapsed neighborhood theory
Answer: C
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Discuss the dimensions of the crime problem in America.
Level: Basic
8) A private foundation supplying a criminal justice agency with funding is providing
________.
A) solution funding
B) soft money
C) hard money
D) research shortage funding
Answer: B
Page Ref: 20
Objective: Explain how resources and political ideologies guide crime control priorities.
Level: Intermediate
9) Which type of science would evaluate the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
program?
A) soft sciences
B) determinate sciences
C) hard sciences
D) indeterminate sciences
Answer: A
Page Ref: 14
Objective: Summarize the importance of definitions in the crime control debate.
Level: Basic
10) A method used to determine whether an approach to the crime problem is a success or
failure is called ________.
A) process evaluation
B) learning outcomes
C) methodology analysis
D) outcome evaluation
Answer: D
Page Ref: 13
Objective: Discuss what crime control evaluations are problematic.
Level: Basic
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Chapter 1 Identifying and Evaluating Crime Control
1.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) Which of the following crimes causes the greatest fear in the minds of most Americans?
A) white-collar crimes
B) violent crimes
C) property crimes
D) morality crimes
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Discuss the dimensions of the crime problem in America.
Level: Intermediate
2) Quantitative research typically involves ________.
A) a conclusive legislative change in a law
B) descriptive and in-depth research on a specific group or location
C) diffusing salient issues between researchers
D) less detailed research on a large number of cases
Answer: D
Page Ref: 16
Objective: Explain various approaches to the crime problem.
Level: Intermediate
3) Who signed the Patriot Act into law following the events of September 11th?
A) President Clinton
B) Supreme Court Justice O'Connor
C) President Bush
D) Senator Ted Kennedy
Answer: C
Page Ref: 9
Objective: Explain various approaches to the crime problem.
Level: Basic
2
,4) The Elusive Criminal Justice Experiment means that ________.
A) a true classical experiment is hard to create in some areas of crime control
B) legislators are highly effective in creating social policy to eliminate crime
C) social phenomena such as crime is relatively simple to measure and thus produces a
concrete field for study
D) criminologists lack the expertise to properly identify and study a macro-level crime
problem
Answer: A
Page Ref: 14
Objective: Explain why scientific knowledge is tentative.
Level: Difficult
5) Crime control policies that push crime into other neighborhoods is a problem known as
________.
A) diffusion
B) displacement
C) redirection
D) confusion
Answer: B
Page Ref: 17
Objective: Define displacement and diffusion.
Level: Basic
6) Which of the following terms denotes researchers who have an interest in receiving funding
to research a hot topic?
A) bandwagon science
B) original research
C) academic crusader
D) cross-sectional researcher
Answer: A
Page Ref: 21
Objective: Explain how resources and political ideologies guide crime control priorities.
Level: Basic
3
, 7) Targeting low-level crimes, such as street-level drug dealing and prostitution, in an effort to
deter more serious crime is known as the ________.
A) fractured society theory
B) fragmented circle theory
C) broken windows theory
D) collapsed neighborhood theory
Answer: C
Page Ref: 4
Objective: Discuss the dimensions of the crime problem in America.
Level: Basic
8) A private foundation supplying a criminal justice agency with funding is providing
________.
A) solution funding
B) soft money
C) hard money
D) research shortage funding
Answer: B
Page Ref: 20
Objective: Explain how resources and political ideologies guide crime control priorities.
Level: Intermediate
9) Which type of science would evaluate the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
program?
A) soft sciences
B) determinate sciences
C) hard sciences
D) indeterminate sciences
Answer: A
Page Ref: 14
Objective: Summarize the importance of definitions in the crime control debate.
Level: Basic
10) A method used to determine whether an approach to the crime problem is a success or
failure is called ________.
A) process evaluation
B) learning outcomes
C) methodology analysis
D) outcome evaluation
Answer: D
Page Ref: 13
Objective: Discuss what crime control evaluations are problematic.
Level: Basic
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