Types of Crime
The unlawful entry of a building or structure with the purpose of committing a crime.
What is Burglary?
A Large database, curated by the FBI, that compiles reported crimes and arrests each year throughout the United States.
What is The Uniform Crime Report?
A criminological theory that suggests that the criminality of women is misunderstood and is misreported because men in the criminal justice system are more lenient and favorable towards female offenders.
What is The Chivalry Hypothesis?
A common phrase used to explain the fact that crime is committed less by people as they mature.
What is Aging Out?
This factor can heavily affect crime and how often and at what level it occurs. This specific factor explains why crime is highest in metropolitan areas.
What is the Location of a Crime?
Offenses designed to improve the financial or social position of the offender.
What are Instrumental Crimes?
A study conducted by the US Dept. of Justice and the US Census Bureau that studies the experiences of victims.
What is The National Crime Victimization Survey?
The view that any woman who commits a crime has some biological or psychological trait similar to those of men.
What is the Masculinity Hypothesis?
A small group of offenders who are constant in their criminal ways and account for a majority of the total criminal offenses.
What is Career Criminals?
This factor can heavily affect crime and how often and at what level it occurs. This specific factor explains why crime is highest during the warm months of July and August, and why crime is more likely to be committed at night.
What is the Time of a Crime?
Offenses committed for the purpose of venting rage, anger, or frustration.
What are Expressive Crimes?
A type of survey focused on juvenile delinquency and youth crime, where the survey-taker incriminates themselves for the crime committed.
What are Self-Report Surveys?
As the black population increases, the perceived threat to the white population also increases.
What is the Racial Threat Hypothesis?
The view that repeat offenders start committing crimes at a very young age.
What is Early Onset?
This factor can heavily affect crime and how often and at what level it occurs. This specific factor explains why crime is higher among men rather than woman.
What is the gender of the offender?
The willful killing of a human being by another.
What is Murder?
A program that utilizes local police forces, and conglomerates their brief reports of different incidents and arrests.
What is the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)?
Actions taken by police directed at a suspect or group solely based on the race of said person or group.
What is Racial Profiling?
A term used to explain the end of a crime, which usually takes place through the arrest, charge, and turnover of the offender, or through uncommon means where elements uncontrolled by the police end the crime.
What are Cleared Crimes?
This factor can heavily affect crime and how often and at what level it occurs. This specific factor explains why crime is higher in poor neighborhoods.
What is the Criminal's Socio-Economic Status?
The eight most serious offenses included in the UCR, including murder, rape, burglary, and arson.
What are Part I Crimes?
The consequence of a lack of resources, usually leading to poverty.
What is Resource Deprivation?
Specific laws that require offenders to serve life in prison after their third felony conviction.
What are Three-Strike Policies?
A distinction of all crimes that are committed, and are in the UCR arrest data, excluding the eight crimes of murder, rape, assault, robbery, burglary, arson, larceny, and motor vehicle theft.
What are Part II Crimes?
This factor can heavily affect crime and how often and at what level it occurs. This specific factor explains why crime is higher in places predominantly owned by racial and ethnic minorities.
What is the Race and Ethnicity of the Criminal?