Measuring Crime
Data collected by police departments that are reported to the FBI.
What is Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)?
What is Formal Social Control?
Laws, rules, and regulations imposed and carried out by official organizations.
The smallest numerical category in the part I offenses but takes up most of police resources.
What is murder?
When are crime rates highest?
Spring Months
Summer Months
Fall Months
Winter Months
Summer Months
The legal principle by which a decision in an earlier case or ruling becomes the standard for which all similar cases are to be judged.
What is Stare Decisis?
Crimes that are not reported to the police and remain unknown to officials (NCVS and self-report surveys attempt to address this).
What is the dark figure of crime?
Where does our standard for socialization derive from?
Middle-class White America.
What is the most common violent crime and the starting point for more serious interpersonal conflict?
Assault
True or False:
The North and East have higher crime rates.
False.
The South and West have higher crime rates.
Defendant could not have committed the crime because they were somewhere else and with someone else therefore no actus reus.
What is an alibi?
In multiple offense situations only the most serious crime is counted.
What is the hierarchy rule?
Contemporary criminal justice agencies are political entities whose structure and function are lodged within the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the government; typically, they are divided into 3 main parts. What are they?
Law enforcement agencies (police)
Court agencies
Correctional agencies
The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away by stealth of property, other than a motor vehicle, from the possession or consecutive possession of another.
What is larceny-theft?
True or False
Black individuals are victimized by violent crime at higher rates than any other group
True
Individual admits to committing the act in question, but claims it was necessary to avoid some greater equal.
What are justification defenses?
Only 29% of the population is covered by what crime reports?
National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
It costs federal, state, and local governments more than _______ per year to administer criminal justice.
It costs federal, state, and local governments more than $274 billion per year to administer criminal justice.
Most often committed by a man who knows the victim i.e. date rape; acquaintance rape; spousal rape - account for 73% of all assaults.
What is sexual assault?
Victim risk diminishes after what age?
25
Refers to the body of rules and regulations that define and specify the nature of and punishments for offenses or wrongs committed.
What is substantive criminal law?
Annual survey of selected American households conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics to determine the extent of criminal victimization not reported to the police; conducted twice a year.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
Fill in each blank to earn points:
There are nearly ______ courts, more than _____ prosecutorial agencies, approximately _______ correctional institutions, and over _________ probation and parole departments.
There are nearly 17,000 courts, more than 8,000 prosecutorial agencies, approximately 6,000 correctional institutions, and over 3,500 probation and parole departments.
What is the difference between robbery and burglary?
Robbery is a personal crime that involves a face to face confrontation. Burglary is unlawful entry of a structure to commit theft .
Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they don't know; men are more likely to experience an attack by someone they know.
False.
Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they know; men are more likely to experience a stranger attack
Defendant claims that some personal condition or circumstance at the time of the act was such that he or she should not be held accountable under the law.
Give three of the types:
What are excuse defenses?
Duress, Insanity, Involuntary Intoxication, Age, Entrapment