CRI 100- Chapter 2
What are the Uniform Crime Reports?
Annual publication by the FBI that uses data from all participating law enforcement agencies in the United States to summarize the incidence and rate of reported crime.
Which behaviors fit into the category of offense against the public order?
Behaviors that fit into the category of offenses against the public order include drug use and sales, loitering, gambling, prostitution, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, and liquor law violations.
How are the National Crime Victimization Survey and self-report studies the same? How are they different?
Both the National Crime Victimization Survey and self-report studies try to capture the dark figure of crime and measure offenses the UCR NIBRS missed. In contrast, the National Crime Victimization Survey asks victims about their experiences, whereas self-report studies question respondents about what offenses they committed.
How is corporate crime different from white-collar crime?
Corporate crime involves breaking laws in the otherwise lawful pursuit of profit. White-collar crime is a nonviolent criminal offense committed during the course of business for financial gain. White-collar crime may involve employees harming the corporation.
What are some of the motivations for violent crime?
Interpersonal disputes Instrumental violence Group Violence Serial and mass murder Political violence Rape and sexual assault Robbery
Why does street crime receive more attention than corporate white-collar crime?
People are more afraid of street crime because it is sometimes violent. It also gets more media attention and is easier fro the public to understand. Corporate and white-collar offenses may take years to perpetrate and investigate, whereas most street crime happens relatively quickly. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports focus on street crime, whereas corporate and white-collar crime have no single official measurement.
What is street crime?
Street crime is small-scale, person offenses such as single-victim homicide, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and vandalism.
How do the Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System differ in their use of the hierarchy rule?
The Uniform Crime counts only the top-ranked offense in the offense hierarchy. The National Incident-Based Reporting System gathers data on each criminal offense in the hierarchy even if several offenses are committed at once.
How does the perception of crime differ from the incidence of crime?
The public often thinks that crime is more evasive than statistics show. Many people think violent crime is random, when it usually has clear patterns. A single incident may convince the public that all of crime is on the rise, when actually it is isolated to a single incident or type of crime.
What type of property crime does the criminal justice system most successfully measure?
The types of property crime that are best measured by the criminal justice system are those in which the offender is a stranger to the victim. Burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson are felt with by the criminal law and measured by the FBI.