2. \"Our analysis provides, at best, extremely weak support for the hypothesis t

Question

2. "Our analysis provides, at best, extremely weak support for the hypothesis that curfews reduce juvenile crime rates. Of the offense and victimization measures, only burglary larceny, and simple assault arrests signifi- cantly decreased after cities adopred curfew statutes. These decreases occurred only for revised laws, and only the reductions in lar- ceny appeared in both the county and city- county samples" (McDowall, Loftin, and all the files opened for Jews, 30 percent were in that category. Proportionally, more files of property and drug offenses were opened for Jews chan for Arabs. In addition, Arabs are over-represented in public order offenses" (Mesch and Fishman, 1999:184). 9. "Stories about women perpetrating crimes against children were more likely to appear on the first page of the newspaper,75% versus 1%" (Grabe et al., 2006:149) Wiersema, 2000.88). ighest in Can- ada and the Netherlands, and lowest in Scot. land.... In 1999 the survey robbery rate was lowest in the United Staces" (Farrington, Lan- survey robbery rate was h t0. "Approximately half of the [burglars (54 percenc) admitted co 50 or more lifetime burglaries Included in this group are 44 offenders who had committed at least 100 such crimes. At the other extreme are 11 in- dividuals who had participated in nine or fewer residential break-ins" (Wright and Decker, 1994:13). and Tonry, 2004xi) 4. "On average, probationers were 31 years old, African American, male, and convicced of drug or property offenses. Most lived with family, and although they were not married, many were in exclusive relationships (44 per cent) and had children (47 percent)" (MacKen /2 13 14 /6 ts zie et al, 1999:433) "Sevency-ive percent(n 158) of the cases were disposed at districr courts, and 3 percent ( -6) remained pending. One percent of the control and 4 percent of the experimental cases were referred to drug treatment court" (Taxman and Elis, 1999:42). 6. "The department's eight Field Operations Command substations (encompassing 20 po- lice districts and 100 patrol beats) comprised the study's cross-sectional units. From Janu- ary 1986 through July 1989, a period of 43 months, data were collected monthly from each substation for a total of 344 cases" (Kes- sler, 1999:346) 7. For most violent crimes, American rates are among the highest-along with Austra- lia, Canada, Spain, and France-but not the highest. Chances of being robbed, being as- saulced, or being che victim of a stranger rape are higher in several other Western countries" (Tonry, 1999-421). "Of all the files opened for Arabs, 32 percent mere crimes against the person, whereas of

Explanation / Answer

Answer:

Unit of analysis are the people, things, social artifacts, groups, organizations, individuals etc. whose characteristics are observed and described by the researcher.

For different cases that are discussed in the question, the unit of analysis are mentioned below:

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse 2
• Subjects

---

---

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.