Which of the Following Statements Is True of Crime Rates

question 54

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of crime rates?

• A)According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (FBI, 2013a), there was a 7 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes from 2011 to 2012.
• B)Violent crimes, that is, crimes against persons, account for 88 percent of all serious offenses; crimes against property account for the remaining 12 percent (Macionis, 2013).
• C)Crime rates are recorded through official statistics of crimes reported to police, surveys administered to population samples, and offenders' self-reports.
• D)The FBI does not report the number of burglary incidents that occur because reporting practices vary so dramatically from one location to another.

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