Mr.

Jimmy
Law & Justice I
Study Guide / Causes of Crime & Crime Reporting

1. Which type of crime reporting involves collecting samples from a limited number of
subjects?
a. Incident report
b. NIBRS
c. Surveys
d. UCR

2. Which type of crime reporting, conducted by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S.
Census Bureau asks people to report on their own victimization?
a. National Crime Victim’s Survey (NCVS)
b. National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
c. National Crime Database
d. Uniformed Crime Reporting (UCR)

3. Which is the prevention of people in general or society at large from engaging in crime
by punishing specific individuals and making examples of them?
a. Crime punishment
b. General deterrence
c. Public humiliation
d. Specific deterrence

4. Which theory is based on the belief that criminals are physiologically different from non-
criminals?
a. Biological theory
b. Deterrence theory
c. Economic theory
d. Sociological theory

5. Studies under this theory found that neighborhoods that experienced high delinquency
rates also experienced social disorganization.
a. Biological theory
b. Chicago School theory
c. Sociological theory
d. Strain theory
6. Which theory proposes that people’s relationships, commitments, values, norms, and
beliefs encourage them not to break the law?
a. Biological theory
b. Chicago School theory
c. Social Control theory
d. Strain theory

7. _____________ is based on biological, psychological, sociological, economic factors, or

some combination.
a. Crime
b. Data
c. Religion
d. Theory

8. Which is an assumption that attempts to explain why or how things are related to each
other?
a. Crime
b. Data
c. Religion
d. Theory

9. Which percentage of rape and sexual assaults go unreported in the United States?
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 75%
d. 90%

10. Clearance rates can be a good method for measuring performance of police and for
comparing various police services.
a. True
b. False

11. Sigmund Freud was a key contributor to which criminological theory?

a. Biological theory
b. Economical theory
c. Neoclassical theory
d. Psychological theory
12. Which criminological theory assumes that a criminal’s behavior is determined by his/her
social environment and reject the notion of the “born criminal”?
a. biological theory
b. Psychological theory
c. Sociological theory
d. Strain theory

13. Murder, arson, and larceny are examples of which type of crimes in the Uniformed
Crime Report (UCR)?
a. Active crimes
b. Part I Index crimes
c. Part II non-index crimes
d. Violent crimes

14. Which is used to collect data for reported crime, including accounts from each incident
and arrest in 22 crime patterns?
a. Incident report
b. Field notes
c. NIBRS
d. UCR

15. Which is the explanation of criminal behavior?

a. Criminological explanations
b. Criminological data
c. Criminological theory
d. Criminological studies

16. Which criminological theory is based on the assumption that people exercise free will
and are thus completely responsible for their actions?
a. Biological theory
b. Classical theory
c. Neoclassical theory
d. Sociological theory
17. Which is the most under-reported crime in the United States?
a. Arson
b. Burglary
c. Larceny
d. Sexual assaults

18. Which is calculated by dividing the number of crimes that are “cleared” by the total
number of crimes recorded?
a. Clearance rate
b. Crime rate
c. Solvability rate
d. Total crime

19. No person who, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacks capacity to understand the
proceedings against the person or to assist in the person’s own defense shall be tried,
convicted, or sentenced for the commission of an offense so long as such incapacity
endures.
a. True
b. False

20. How are crime rates determined?

a. Number of total crimes in an area
b. Number of crimes per 100,000 people
c. Total reported crimes divided by unreported crimes
d. Total reported crimes minus unreported crimes