PiG Ch 2 First Half Review

In this country a crime is committed every…

• 2.7 seconds

• 27 seconds

• 2.7 minutes

• 27 minutes

About _____% of all crimes reported are violent.

Assault

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You come home and find a package addressed to your neighbor on your porch.  You can keep it as long as you had nothing to do with the mistake.

• True

• False

Joe and Mary decide to burglarize Superior Jewelers.  Their friend Carl, a former employee at Superior, helps by telling them the location of the store vault. Carl will be charged as...

• the principle

• an accomplice

• an accessory before the fact

• an accessory after the fact

Which is considered to be the most serious?

• joyriding

• auto theft

• grand theft – auto

• car-jacking

Bill and Jill and throwing a lacrosse ball back and forth in a parking lot full of cars.  Bill makes a poor throw and hits a car window breaking it.  Which of the following is true?

• Both Bill and Jill are guilty of the crime of destruction of property

• Only Bill is guilty of destruction of the crime of destruction of property

• Only Jill is guilty of destruction of the crime of destruction of property

• Neither Bill nor Jill is guilty of the crime of destruction of property

What percent of reported crimes are cleared?

What age group commits more crimes than any other?

• 15 - 24

• 24 - 30

• 30 - 35

• 35 - 55

Men commit _____ times as may crimes as women do.