تعريف mock crime في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
The “crimes" utilized in analog studies in order to establish ground truth have taken different forms. For the most part, they are “mock crimes;" i.e., crimes in which subjects know they are “role playing" at being criminals for purposes of an experiment. Mock crime studies may be further differentiated by whether or not the experimenter controls the guilt or innocence of research participants. In some studies, subjects know that the crime is part of the experimental situation but they are more or less free to go through with the crime or not. Two analog studies have utilized actual small crimes. In these studies, apparently real situations were embedded in an experimental situation in which subjects were given an opportunity to commit a crime or not