When Police Routinely Patrol a Particular Area in the Evenings

question 18

Multiple Choice

When police routinely patrol a particular area in the evenings for prostitution and the prostitutes move their business to after midnight, this is an example of:

• A)Spatial displacement
• B)Temporal displacement
• C)Target displacement
• D)Tactical displacement

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Definitions:

Deferred Posting

A banking or accounting term referring to the practice of recording transactions or entries at a later date than the transaction occurred.

Cutoff Hour

A specific time set as a deadline for the completion of a task or the acceptance of transactions on a particular day.

Midnight

The transition time from one day to the next: the moment when the date changes and a new day begins, technically 12:00 AM.

Stolen

Property taken without the owner's consent, often constituting a criminal offense.