Complete Test Bank – Crime Analysis with Crime
Mapping (5th Edition) by Rachel Boba Santos |
Verified Questions & Answers – All Chapters 1–16
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, CHAPTER 1: CRIME ANALYSIS AND THE PROFESSION
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) Crime analysts use qualitative data and methods
a. To develop forecasts for future crime events
b. To conduct statistics on frequency of crime
c. To examine nonnumerical data for the purpose of discovering underlying meanings and patterns of
relationships
d. To understand the correlational relationships between types of crime Correct Answer: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Crime Analysis
Definition Difficulty Level: Easy
2) A geographic information system (GIS) is all of the following EXCEPT:
a. A powerful software tool that allows the user to create any kind of geographic representation
b. A set of computer-based tools that allows the user to modify, visualize, query, and analyze
geographic and tabular data
c. Similar to a spreadsheet or word processing program in that the software provides a framework
and templates for data collection, collation, and analysis
d. A unstructured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer so that a crime analyst
can consult it to answer queries
Correct Answer: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Definitions of GIS and Crime Mapping
Difficulty Level: Medium
3) Crime mapping is
a. The process of using a geographic information system to conduct spatial analysis of crime problems
and other police-related issues
b. The discipline concerned with the development, use, application and influence of
information technologies
c. The study and practice of making maps
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,d. A system for capturing, storing, analyzing and managing data and associated attributes which
are spatially referenced to the earth
Correct Answer: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: under the heading Definitions of GIS and Crime Mapping
Difficulty Level: Easy
4) The history of crime analysis as a discipline begins with a.
The New York City Police Department in the early 1900s b.
Farmers and ranchers looking out for their livestock
c. Professors in the School of Cartography
d. The first modern police force in London in the early 19th century
Correct Answer: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Beginnings of Crime Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
5) Which brought about increased awareness of the use of analysis and evaluation in policing throughout
the 1970s?
a. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
b. 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
c. 1975 Crime Analysis and Evaluation Act
d. None of the above Correct Answer: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading United States:1970 to 2000
Difficulty Level: Medium
6) Which of the following did NOT influence crime analysis in the mid- to late 1970s,
a. Academics emphasizing the importance of criminal events vs. criminality of individuals
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, b. The geographic analysis of crime
c. Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)
d. New York City’s COMPSTAT
Correct Answer: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading United States:1970 to 2000
Difficulty Level: Medium
7) The IACA is
a. The International Alliance of Criminal Analysis
b. The Interstate Association of Crime Analysis
c. The International Association of Crime Analysts
d. The Intelligence and Crime Analysis Association Correct Answer: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: under the heading Definition of Crime
Analysis Difficulty Level: Easy
8) Crime mapping began
a. With researchers in the 1970s who emphasized crime and place
b. With European researchers who examined the levels of crime within different regions and
the relationship of these levels to sociological factors
c. In the London Metropolitan Police Department
d. In the US in the early 1900s Correct Answer: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Beginnings of Crime Mapping
Difficulty Level: Medium
9) The following is one of the reasons crime mapping started later in the US than in
Europe. a. The US did not have scholars capable of conducting crime mapping
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Mapping (5th Edition) by Rachel Boba Santos |
Verified Questions & Answers – All Chapters 1–16
1|Page
, CHAPTER 1: CRIME ANALYSIS AND THE PROFESSION
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) Crime analysts use qualitative data and methods
a. To develop forecasts for future crime events
b. To conduct statistics on frequency of crime
c. To examine nonnumerical data for the purpose of discovering underlying meanings and patterns of
relationships
d. To understand the correlational relationships between types of crime Correct Answer: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Crime Analysis
Definition Difficulty Level: Easy
2) A geographic information system (GIS) is all of the following EXCEPT:
a. A powerful software tool that allows the user to create any kind of geographic representation
b. A set of computer-based tools that allows the user to modify, visualize, query, and analyze
geographic and tabular data
c. Similar to a spreadsheet or word processing program in that the software provides a framework
and templates for data collection, collation, and analysis
d. A unstructured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer so that a crime analyst
can consult it to answer queries
Correct Answer: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Definitions of GIS and Crime Mapping
Difficulty Level: Medium
3) Crime mapping is
a. The process of using a geographic information system to conduct spatial analysis of crime problems
and other police-related issues
b. The discipline concerned with the development, use, application and influence of
information technologies
c. The study and practice of making maps
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,d. A system for capturing, storing, analyzing and managing data and associated attributes which
are spatially referenced to the earth
Correct Answer: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: under the heading Definitions of GIS and Crime Mapping
Difficulty Level: Easy
4) The history of crime analysis as a discipline begins with a.
The New York City Police Department in the early 1900s b.
Farmers and ranchers looking out for their livestock
c. Professors in the School of Cartography
d. The first modern police force in London in the early 19th century
Correct Answer: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Beginnings of Crime Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
5) Which brought about increased awareness of the use of analysis and evaluation in policing throughout
the 1970s?
a. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
b. 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
c. 1975 Crime Analysis and Evaluation Act
d. None of the above Correct Answer: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading United States:1970 to 2000
Difficulty Level: Medium
6) Which of the following did NOT influence crime analysis in the mid- to late 1970s,
a. Academics emphasizing the importance of criminal events vs. criminality of individuals
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, b. The geographic analysis of crime
c. Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)
d. New York City’s COMPSTAT
Correct Answer: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading United States:1970 to 2000
Difficulty Level: Medium
7) The IACA is
a. The International Alliance of Criminal Analysis
b. The Interstate Association of Crime Analysis
c. The International Association of Crime Analysts
d. The Intelligence and Crime Analysis Association Correct Answer: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: under the heading Definition of Crime
Analysis Difficulty Level: Easy
8) Crime mapping began
a. With researchers in the 1970s who emphasized crime and place
b. With European researchers who examined the levels of crime within different regions and
the relationship of these levels to sociological factors
c. In the London Metropolitan Police Department
d. In the US in the early 1900s Correct Answer: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: under the heading Beginnings of Crime Mapping
Difficulty Level: Medium
9) The following is one of the reasons crime mapping started later in the US than in
Europe. a. The US did not have scholars capable of conducting crime mapping
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