Intro to Victimology Chapter 3
Victimization surveys were originally intended by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to be a more authoritative accounting of crime than the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI's) UCR.
FALSE
Violent crime in the United States has consistently trended downward since 2000.
FALSE
When victims believe a crime occurred within the desired reporting period when in fact it occurred long before, which of the following is said to have occurred?
Forward telescoping
Regarding homicide rates throughout the twentieth century in the United States, which of the following observations can be made?
Homicide rates are dependent on a significant number of variables in the United States.
The NIBRS collects victimization data on which of the following?
Homicides Simple assaults Blackmail
Which of the following can reflect predictable relationships or indicate regular occurrences during an analysis of the data?
Patterns
Which of the following can provide an idea of what is usual or typical about a victim in terms of their characteristics?
Profiles
Which of the following type of statistics portraits can yield an impression of what is usually or typical about the average victim to a researcher?
Profiles
Which of the following is included in part II of the UCR?
Prostitution
A man hits another with a baseball bat once intending to hurt him though the victim unfortunately dies as a result of internal bleeding. This would classified as which of the following types of homicide?
Second-degree murder
Which of the following do victimologists view as the most valid methods for collecting information on crime victimization?
Self-report surveys
Crime Clocks lack an important measurement of risk—the recognition that there are millions of possible victims throughout the United States.
TRUE
Data for the National Crime Victimization Surveys (NCVS) are collected by the U.S. Census Bureau
TRUE
Data on victimization may be gathered through self-report.
TRUE
It is possible to "lie" with statistics by using impressive-sounding numbers to deliberately mislead.
TRUE
Official statistics are often compiled and published by governmental agencies.
TRUE
Premeditation is of the ways in which first degree murder differs from second degree murder.
TRUE
Statistics can influence decision makers or shape public opinion.
TRUE
Statistics can reveal patterns of criminal activity.
TRUE
The declining homicide rate in the first half of the 1940's can be corrected to the impact of many men serving overseas in World War II.
TRUE
The hierarchy rule is one of the problems affecting the accuracy of the UCR.
TRUE
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is an overhaul of which of the following?
The UCR
In what way can truthful set of statistics regarding a rise in vehicle theft over the course of a year in a city not reflect the actual situation?
The statistics are from a single source driven by an agenda.
What was the goal behind the establishment of the UCR?
To create a standard set of definitions and reporting formats for gathering crime statistics
Which of the following can statistics be used to do?
To measure victimization rates To expose patterns of crime To demonstrate crime variations over time
Which of the following can be best demonstrated how crime has changed over time?
Trends
Unlike cooperative risks, differential risks can be useful in exploring and understanding risks across gender and race lines.
True
Until 1970, few efforts were made to systematically monitor and measure indicators for crime victimization.
True
Realistic assessments of threat levels that criminal activities pose to particular individuals and groups can be studied by looking at what type of rates?
Victimization
Which of the following would a crime researcher include in a crime statistics report as differential risk?
Victimization rates among ethnic groups for each type of crime
The development of the NCVS can be traced back to the first national survey about victimization carried out in which of the following decades?
1960s
In what year did the homicide rate in the United Sates hit the highest level of the twentieth century?
1980w
As of 2016, which of the following percentage of law enforcement agencies that participated n the UCR provided information compromised in the NIBRS data?
37%
In addition to the eight closely watched UCR index offenses, how many Group A offenses does the NIBRS keep track of?
46
The National Incident Reporting System (NIBRS) is intended as a supplement rather than an overhaul of the UCR.
FALSE
The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is comprised of information gathered from every law enforcement agency in the United States.
FALSE
The first national survey about victimization in the United Sates was conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
FALSE
The principle failing of the UCR is that only a majority of law enforcement agencies across the country take part in it annually.
FALSE
How can the "big picture" of crime be manipulated or distorted?q
By having limited personal experience By self-serving data reported by organizations with vested interests By cultural values and myths
How can a municipal police force in a city where crime has been decreasing annually, misuse crime statistics to try and secure more funding for the following year before a meeting of city legislators?
Cherry pick crime statistics to find examples that have not had a measured decrease over the years
Which of the following crime resources dramatizes the fact that as time passes, more and more people join the ranks of crime victims?
Crime Clock
Which of the following items are collected by the NIBRS but not by the UCR?
Demographics of the victim
Which of the following information can statistics provide to criminologist and victimologists?
Estimates of cost and losses imposed by crime Planning assistance for projects Evaluation of the effectiveness of a criminal justice agency
Memory decay is evident when an individual willingly falsifies a crime report to investigators.
FALSE
Public officials did not start keeping records about crime until the 1900's.
FALSE
