The View That Criminals Evaluate Their Skills and Needs Prior

question 69

Multiple Choice

The view that criminals evaluate their skills and needs prior to engaging in a crime is:

• A)offense specific
• B)offender specific
• C)target specific
• D)risk specific

Understand the concept and implications of economies and diseconomies of scale.

Calculate a firm's total economic costs including explicit and implicit costs.

Differentiate between accounting and economic profits.

Apply the law of diminishing marginal returns to short-run production scenarios.

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Definitions:

Halo Effect

A cognitive bias where a positive impression in one area influences a person's perception in other areas.

Bottom-up Processing

A way of processing information where perception starts with an analysis of the basic elements and builds up to a complete perception.

Self-relevant

Pertaining to information or stimuli that have personal significance to an individual, often influencing attention, perception, and memory processes.

Downward Counterfactual

An imagined alternative in which the outcome is worse than what actually happened.