Exam 3: General Characteristics of Crime and Criminals

High levels of crime appear to be associated with high rates of income inequality.

Which of the following are known for having the highest rates of crime?

Hidden factors may affect crime rates, such as age and urbanism, and they are referred to as factual equalities.

According to the text, in the twenty-first century, all of the following are known to produce higher global crime except ______.

List one potential problem with comparing crime rates from different countries.

As unemployment rises, crime rates tend to ______.

According to the text, the peak arrest age for property crime is ______ years.

The belief that what goes on in the family is somehow separate from outside social forces that affect the family is referred to as the fallacy of autonomy.

Which of the following types of crimes do females tend to concentrate on?

Church is an example of an institution.

A discriminatory practice by some police departments of stopping and searching a disproportionate number of blacks and minorities, particularly in traffic stops is referred to as ______.

Fads in crime that are often stimulated by media coverage or portrayals are referred to as copycat crimes.

Most crime is committed by males historically and internationally with the exception of prostitution.

According to the International Crime Victimization Survey, the rate of violent crime in the United States is ______.

Triangulation, which occurs when researchers allow their personal bias to shape their research, is one potential threat to the accuracy of our data on crime.

The concentric zone theory assumes that city growth occurs in a series of rings.

Hereditary theories of racial inferiority to explain why African Americans, despite social changes in the 1960s, had failed to succeed were referred to as ______.