Your text suggests that we need to be cautious when generalizing about crime and the larger ...

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.

Question 2

Persons arrested for criminal acts are disproportionately:
 
  a. young adult males from minority groups.
  b. young adult white males.
  c. young females from minority groups.
  d. older, lower-class white males.

Question 3

Less than half of violent crimes, and less than one-fourth of property crimes, ever result in an arrest. This means that:
 
  a. people arrested for criminal acts represent only a sample of people who commit crimes.
  b. the police aren't doing their job.
  c. these crimes are the ones that most often go unreported.
  d. those who are arrested are a good representation of those committing crimes more generally.

Question 4

In regards to who commits crime in the U.S., the text suggests that:
 
  a. people in lower classes commit the most crime.
  b. the crimes committed by those in the lower class are the most costly to society.
  c. people of different statuses have different opportunities to commit crime.
  d. the crimes of people in the upper class are higher yield, but also higher risk.

Question 5

White-collar criminals are far less likely than street criminals to have all of the following happen EXCEPT:
 
  a. be sentenced to prison.
  b. receive a lengthy sentence.
  c. hire a competent lawyer.
  d. be tried for a crime.

Question 6

All of the following are examples of corporate crime EXCEPT:
 
  a. polluting the environment.
  b. selling defective products.
  c. a CEO sexually harassing his assistant.
  d. evading corporate taxes.

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of white-collar crime?
 
  a. the armed robbery of a small business by an unemployed lower-class white
  b. an industrial plant ignoring the law which prohibits dumping toxic waste into the environment
  c. legalized prostitution
  d. the slaying of a government official by a subversive and radical political group