RM 502 - Secondary Data & Crime Mapping

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data sources their data from which of the following?

• foundations

• private agencies

• local agencies

• investigator-initiated research projects

The Federal Bureau of Investigation manages the ​ (a)  

• Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
• Summary Reporting System.
• National Incident Based Reporting System.
• National Crime Victimization Survey.

Data that includes longitude and latitude coordinates of a particular research area is called ________

• de-identified

• cross-sectional

• public use

• geospatial

Which of the following uses of secondary data requires IRB approval?

• using data that meet the definition of human subject data

• using publicly available data

• using de-identified data

• using data that does not contain private information, such as names

​ ​ (a)   data are collected from the same sample at different points in time.

• Longitudinal
• Cross-sectional
• De-identified
• Geospatial

Which of the following is part of a geographic information system?

• agency

• technology

• funding

• ideology

Data with geographic coordinates associated with corresponding physical locations are called ​ (a)   data

• spatial
• vector
• frequency
• raster

Compstat is used under which of the following crime analysis techniques?​ (a)  

• tactical
• spatial
• strategic
• administrative
• educational

Hot spot mapping techniques focus on ​ (a)   data.

• point pattern
• raster
• vector
• frequency

Using a holistic strategy, the predictive crime analysis forecasting technique guided by criminological theory is called ​ (a)  

• risk terrain modeling
• recapture rate indexes
• predictive accuracy indexes
• hit rates