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The most common methods for collecting crime data are: - Answer 1) official reports of reported crimes, 2) data secured from victims, and 3) data from self-report studies.
What are the two major sources of official crime data in the US? - Answer The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
What does the UCR report? - Answer The UCR reports crime data that come to the attention of police through their own observation or through reports from others. It also includes murder and arson - not included in the NCVS.
Which of the two is used more frequently? - Answer the UCR.
What information do these two reports disclose? - Answer How many crimes were reported, and how many arrests were made.
The UCR consists of crime data collected by the... - Answer FBI.
Known as Part I, or index offenses, they include... - Answer murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggrevated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Congress added arson to the list in 1979 and renamed it "the modified crime index".
The most serious crimes are... - Answer property crimes.
How is the national crime rate calculated? - Answer By dividing the number of Part I reported crimes by the number of people in the country.
Offenses can be cleared in two ways... - Answer 1) when a suspect is arrested, charged, and turned over to the judicial system for prosecution, and 2) by circumstances beyond the control of the police (suspects death, etc).
What is the clearance rate? - Answer The clearance rate is the number of crimes solved, expressed as a percentage of the total number of crimes reported to the police.
What are the two ways that arrest information is presented in the UCR? - Answer 1) the total estimated numbers of arrests by crime for each of the recorded offenses and 2) the nmber of arrests made during one year for each of the serious offenses per 100, population.
What are some examples of Part II offenses? - Answer assaults (simple), forgery and counterfeit, fraud, embezzlement, stolen property, vandalism, prostitution, drug abuse
violations, etc.
What is the most serious limitation of the UCR? - Answer It does not include all crimes that are committed.
What are the reasons that the UCR does not record all crime committed? - Answer 1) not all crimes are reported, 2) delay in reporting crimes, 3) police decisions (police decide only to put information in the UCR if there is enough sufficient evidence to prove the crime was committed).
White-collar crime - Answer The illegal actions of corporations or individuals, committed while pursuing their legitamate occupations.
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) - Answer views crime, along with all of it's components, as an incident and recognizes that the data constituting those components should be collected and organized for purposes of analysis.
The "dark figure of crime" - Answer The existence of unreported crime.
What is the NCVS based on? - Answer The results of interviews conducted each six months with persons in about 60,000 households.
Self-report data (SRD) are acquired by two methods: - Answer 1) the interview,in which a personis asked questions about illegal activities, 2) the questionaire, usually anonymous.
What is considered a property crime? - Answer Burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
Robbery involves the same elements as larceny theft but adds two elements that make it a violent crime... - Answer 1) taking the property from the person or in the presence of the person AND 2) using force or threatening to use force.
Four property crimes are included in the FBI's Part I, they are: - Answer burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
The most frequently commited property offense is what? - Answer larceny-theft, which is the unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another. EX: shoplifting, pocket-picking, snatching, etc.
Prima facie evidence - Answer Evidence that is sufficient to constitute a fact unless it is sufficiently refuted.
Victimology - Answer The discipline that studies the nature and causes of victimization, as well as programs for aiding victims and preventing victimization.
Restitution - Answer Punishment that requires an offender to repay the victim with services or money. May be imposed instead of or in addition to other punishment or fines and may be a requirement of parole.
