According to Self-Report Data, What Explains Why the Male-To-Female Arrest

question 74

Multiple Choice

According to self-report data, what explains why the male-to-female arrest ratio has decreased in recent years?

• A) Girls are being arrested more frequently for the same things they did in the past but were not arrested for.
• B) The proportion of females who engage in violent crimes has increased substantially.
• C) Both A and B are true.
• D) Neither A nor B is true. The gender gap in offending has actually increased over the past several decades.

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Definitions:

Spearman Rank-Correlation

A non-parametric measure of rank correlation, assessing how well the relationship between two variables can be described using a monotonic function.

Nonparametric Test

A type of statistical test that does not assume the data comes from a particular distribution.

Matched-Pairs Sample

A method where each subject is paired based on certain characteristics before being assigned to different treatments for comparison.

Frequency Distributions

Frequency distributions are summaries that show the number of occurrences of values within a dataset, often represented graphically in histograms or tables.