Question

Fill in missing blank This is an introduction to criminology class

Question 1

An -----------is a research design in which the researcher introduces the independent variable to a group and observes the effects of the independent variable.

Question 2

Property crimes rates have --------- in recent years although this change has not been as dramatic as that experienced for the violent crime rate.

Question 3

In general, crimes rates --------- as temperature rises.

Question 4

Large --------- areas have by far the highest violence rates while ----------- areas have the lowest per capital crime rates.

Answer 1

Q1

Answer: experimental research design

Experimental research design is a research design in which the researcher introduce the independent variable and observes the effects of the independent variable to the dependent variable.

Q2

Answer: Reduced

Property crimes have reduced in recent years although this change has not been dramatic as that experience of the violent crime rate.

Q3

Answer: increased

In general crime rates increased with raise in temperature. It is because of increase serotonin levels due to high temperature leads to people more impulsive.

Q4

Answer: Large population area and small areas

Large population areas have higher violent rate and small areas have lowest per capita violent rate.