Victims and their Statistics
Crime Data
Levels of Crime
Gangs and Cons, and Defenses, Oh My!
Miscellaneous
100
This gender is the most likely to be a victim of homicide.
Who are males?
100
This is all crime that escapes being reported.
What is the dark figure of crime?
100
To prove this level of homicide, you must prove the defendent acted willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, and with specific intent.
What is first degree murder?
100
This gang suppression technique occurs when police flood areas known for gang activity.
What is directed police patrols?
100
This is what typically happens when you resist a robbery.
What is you are injured?
200
Property crime makes up this percentage of the total crime rate.
What is 88%?
200
This crime reporter began in 1929. It involves 17,000 agencies who report their monthly crime rates to the FBI.
What is the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)?
200
John is intoxicated and speeding down the interstate. Out of nowhere he crashes into the car next to him and the driver dies. Describe the level of homicide John will probably be found guilty of.
What is involuntary manslaughter?
200
Name two of the many risk factors that increase chances of gang involvment.
What is low income, learning disabilities, delinquent friends, low attachment/achievement in school, no involvement in outside activities, behavioral disorders, and low exposure to consistent rules?
200
Tell me the two numbers that are compared to give a police department's clearance rate.
What is number of arrests compared to the number of crimes known to the police department?
300
Chose increased or decreased: This is what has happened to the violent crime rate since 1973.
What is the violent crime rate has decreased?
300
When multiple crimes are committed by 1 offender in 1 year, this rule states that only the most serious offense should be counted in statistics.
What is the hierarchy rule?
300
Bob and his brother are getting along fine, when all of a sudden they have an angry, violent argument. At the height of the argument, Bob gets a gun and shoots his brother. Describe which level of homicide Bob will probably be found guilty of.
What is voluntary manslaughter?
300
Give me a brief, but detailed history of the outlaw motorcycle gangs.
What is started in poor white communities in the 1950s? What is centered around racism? What is they are not interested in protecting turf, only in acting like pirates?
300
This ingredient of a crime states that the person must intend the act at the same time he commits it.
What is concurrence?
400
Name two things a Crime Victims Board would pay for.
What is attorney fees, funerals, lost pay, lost/damaged propety, and medical bills?
400
The National Incident-based Reporting System is the only system to avoid this limitation.
What is the hierarchy rule?
400
An employee tells David Letterman that either he pay her $10,000 or she will tell the world he is an adulterer. Tell me which level of stealing has been violated.
What is extortion?
400
This insanity defense can be proven if the defendant can show that because of a mental illness, they did not know what they were doing or that it was wrong.
What is the M'Naghten Rule?
400
Felony or Misdemeanor: Tom committed a crime, was found guilty, and now faces a 10 year sentence to be served in a state prison.
What is a felony?
500
Tell me 2 things that a Victims' Rights Amendment would include.
What is no unreasonable delays in trial, notice of an offenders release, right to be heard, payment from the offender, and consideration of safety when sentencing?
500
Name 3 pieces of information a person could learn about an incident using the National Crime Victimization Survey.
What is victim and offender's age, gender, address, marital status? What is victim-offender relationship? What is past experience with law, self-protection and substance abuse?
500
This level of stealing occurs when a person uses a dangerous weapon to take something from a person.
What is armed robbery?
500
This type of gang is focused on making money. They are highly organized.
What is a corporate gang?
500
This level of stealing occurs when a person takes property they have been entrusted with.
What is embezzlement?
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