Numerous Studies Have Shown That Measures of Crime Based on Police

question 88

Multiple Choice

Numerous studies have shown that measures of crime based on police records often suffer from:

• A) reliability problems
• B) validity problems
• C) accounting problems
• D) typology problems

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