According to the Textbook, What Was the Most Important Finding

question 39

Multiple Choice

According to the textbook, what was the most important finding of Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay?

• A)Crime rates and the need for police services are associated with community deterioration.
• B)The percentage of broken homes is strongly related to neighbourhood crime rates.
• C)Crime rates correspond to neighbourhood structure and are determined by destructive ecological conditions in urban slums.
• D)The proportion of individuals living with mental health concerns in a community is strongly correlated with crime rates in that zone.

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Definitions:

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Straight-Line Depreciation

A process for breaking down the expenditure of a solid asset throughout its useful life in identical yearly quotas.

Discount Factor

A multiplier used to determine the present value of future cash flows by accounting for time and interest.

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