Crime Patterns Are a Series of Crime Treated as One

question 16

True/False

Crime patterns are a series of crime treated as one unit of analysis because the crimes share one or more key commonalities that make them notable and distinct, there is no known relationship between victim and offender, and the criminal activity is typically of limited duration.

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Definitions:

Interference

A cognitive process where previously learned information hinders the ability to learn new information or the retrieval of information due to the non-helpful interaction between different pieces of information.

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where older memories interfere with the recall of newer memories, often causing confusion or mix-ups.

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where new memories impair the retrieval of older memories.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, often referred to as the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.