In Cases Involving Lesser Felonies,misdemeanors,and Petty Offenses,police Officers Are More

question 29

Multiple Choice

In cases involving lesser felonies,misdemeanors,and petty offenses,police officers are more likely to:

• A) formally report the crime.
• B) informally handle the crime.
• C) do nothing.
• D) make a physical arrest.

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Definitions:

Bimodal Distributions

Probability distributions with two different modes or peaks, reflecting two dominant values in a dataset.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, aiming to define the center of the data set with measures such as mean, median, and mode.

Outliers

Observations in data that are significantly different from the majority of the data points, potentially indicating a measurement error or a novel finding.

Central Tendency

A numerical value that summarizes an entire data distribution by identifying a central point, like the average, midpoint, or most frequent value.