High levels of crime appear to be associated with high rates of income inequality.
Both property and violent crime rates peak early in life , and then decline significantly with age.
A major predictor of delinquency is misconduct in school.
One's status as a minority increases the likelihood that he or she will engage in crime.
Triangulation, which occurs when researchers allow their personal bias to shape their research, is one potential threat to the accuracy of our data on crime. Race is a relatively arbitrary, socially defined construct. One's status as a minority increases the likelihood that he or she will engage in crime.
The region of the United States with the lowest overall crime rate is the: Northeast. There is a positive relationship between the amount of formal schooling individuals possess and arrest rates for traditional crimes.
As unemployment rises, crime rates tend to: Increase. The "age/crime" debate refers to the debate surrounding: Whether "maturing out" of crime is a phenomenon true of all offenders and all types of crime. In stating that criminology May have a Eurocentric bias, it is meant that the field has been: