FINAL CJE 3444 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Efforts to identify potential offenders, places, or situations that have a higher likelihood for
criminal activity. - ANS Secondary preventions
The behavior of a repeat or habitual criminal. A measurement of the rate at which offenders
commit other crimes. - ANS Recidivism:
—an individual is predicted to do something in the future—i.e. the individual predicted to
reoffend. - ANS positive prediction
—an individual is predicted to NOT do something in the future---i.e. the individual is predicted
to NOT reoffend. - ANS negative prediction
—an individual is predicted to do something in the future and the person actually does. (a
successful prediction) - ANS True-positive prediction
—an individual is predicted to do something in the future and the person does NOT. -
ANS False-positive prediction
—an individual is predicted to NOT do something in the future and the person does not. (a
successful prediction) - ANS True-negative prediction
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, —an individual is predicted to NOT do something in the future and the person does. -
ANS False negative prediction
based on a rater's evaluation of an individual, usually after interviews and direct examination of
the subject and his or her records.training and disposition of the individual rater often
determines what variables and factors are important. - ANS clinical Prediction
making predictions based on known parameters in the data—or in other words: given a group
of people with certain characteristics, including a certain percentage of offending individuals,
the same percentage of persons from an identical group would be expected to act in the same
fashion - ANS Actuarial Predictions:
inappropriately attempts to predict individual behavior based on group data known as -
ANS ecological fallacy
A more recent trend in predicting who will commit offenses involves the identification of........
related to deviant behavior. These are indicators of who may become deviant in the future -
ANS "risk factors"
are "small places in which the occurrence of crime is so frequent that it is highly predictable, at
least over a one-year period" - ANS hot spots
The use of ..............., or the creation of maps that predict future crime locations based on
knowledge of recent events can be helpful for law enforcement. - ANS prospective mapping
:People or places being victimized at least a second time within some period of time subsequent
to an initial victimization event - ANS Repeat Victimization
: suggests that the prior victimization or some other factor identifies the victim or location as an
appropriate target for further victimization (usually different offenders) - ANS Risk
heterogeneity, or a flag explanation
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ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Efforts to identify potential offenders, places, or situations that have a higher likelihood for
criminal activity. - ANS Secondary preventions
The behavior of a repeat or habitual criminal. A measurement of the rate at which offenders
commit other crimes. - ANS Recidivism:
—an individual is predicted to do something in the future—i.e. the individual predicted to
reoffend. - ANS positive prediction
—an individual is predicted to NOT do something in the future---i.e. the individual is predicted
to NOT reoffend. - ANS negative prediction
—an individual is predicted to do something in the future and the person actually does. (a
successful prediction) - ANS True-positive prediction
—an individual is predicted to do something in the future and the person does NOT. -
ANS False-positive prediction
—an individual is predicted to NOT do something in the future and the person does not. (a
successful prediction) - ANS True-negative prediction
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, —an individual is predicted to NOT do something in the future and the person does. -
ANS False negative prediction
based on a rater's evaluation of an individual, usually after interviews and direct examination of
the subject and his or her records.training and disposition of the individual rater often
determines what variables and factors are important. - ANS clinical Prediction
making predictions based on known parameters in the data—or in other words: given a group
of people with certain characteristics, including a certain percentage of offending individuals,
the same percentage of persons from an identical group would be expected to act in the same
fashion - ANS Actuarial Predictions:
inappropriately attempts to predict individual behavior based on group data known as -
ANS ecological fallacy
A more recent trend in predicting who will commit offenses involves the identification of........
related to deviant behavior. These are indicators of who may become deviant in the future -
ANS "risk factors"
are "small places in which the occurrence of crime is so frequent that it is highly predictable, at
least over a one-year period" - ANS hot spots
The use of ..............., or the creation of maps that predict future crime locations based on
knowledge of recent events can be helpful for law enforcement. - ANS prospective mapping
:People or places being victimized at least a second time within some period of time subsequent
to an initial victimization event - ANS Repeat Victimization
: suggests that the prior victimization or some other factor identifies the victim or location as an
appropriate target for further victimization (usually different offenders) - ANS Risk
heterogeneity, or a flag explanation
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