Your Text Suggests That We Need to Be Cautious When

question 45

Multiple Choice

Your text suggests that we need to be cautious when generalizing about crime and the larger population of criminals based on UCR statistics because:

• A) levels of crime reporting are much higher than actual crime levels.
• B) the people arrested for criminal acts are not a random sample of the people who commit crimes.
• C) the UCR overemphasizes the crimes of white-collar professionals.
• D) UCR statistics do not include those crimes that have been cleared by an arrest.

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