Intro to CJ
According to this model, the majority of people in a society share the same values and beliefs. Crimes are acts that conflict with these values and beliefs.
According to this theory, crime is the result of frustration felt by individuals who cannot reach their financial and personal goals through legitimate means.
What is Merton's strain theory?
For these types of offenses, the UCR (also referred to as the Summary Reporting System) gives us an aggregate number, a rate per 100,000 people, a percentage change, and the clearance rate.
What are Part I offenses? (Part I offenses are also referred to as Index Crimes)
Robbery falls into this category of crime.
What is violent crime?
This type of survey asks respondents about their own criminal behavior.
What are self-reported (or self-report) surveys?
This term means that government powers are shared by the national (federal) government and the states.
What is federalism?
According to this theory, if the benefits of committing a crime outweigh the costs, a crime is more likely to be committed.
What is rational choice theory?
This reporting system is designed to be an improvement to the UCR because it measures more crimes and provides more details about crimes. It also does not follow the hierarchy rule.
What is NIBRS?
This term is another word for theft.
What is larceny?
Suppose out of all the robberies reported to the police last year, individuals were arrested for 58% of them. Fifty-eight percent represents what?
What is the clearance rate?
The UCR and NIBRS both report the clearance rate.
These two factors most influence decision-making across the criminal justice system.
What are seriousness of the offense and prior criminal record?
According to Merton, most people fall into this category of his typology.
What is conformity?
This data collection system, developed around 1930, involves law enforcement agencies submitting their crime statistics to the FBI each year.
What is the Uniform Crime Report (UCR)? (Also referred to as the Summary Reporting System.)
Another term for this type of crime is victimless crime.
What are public order crimes?
This UCR Program rule requires law enforcement agencies to report only the most serious offense in situations where multiple offenses were committed.
What is the hierarchy rule?
Cases that receive a lot of publicity and go to trial fall into this layer of the wedding cake model.
What is the top layer?
This theory would favor diversion and reintegration programs.
What is labeling theory?
Respondents ages 12 and older in randomly selected households across the United States are interviewed as part of this data collection system.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)?
This type of crime is geared towards satisfying the public’s demand for unlawful goods and services.
What is organized crime?
This problem with the NCVS is related to the fact that the sample is based on addresses.
What is the mover-stayer problem?
This model emphasizes speed and efficiency and does not favor restrictions on police.
What is the crime control model?
According to this theory, it is the nature of the neighborhood rather than the people who live in the neighborhood that influences the crime rate.
What is social disorganization theory?
This data collection system is problematic because it only measures crimes reported to the police.
What are the UCR (also called the Summary Reporting System) and NIBRS? (So there are two correct answers.)
Individuals convicted of these types of crimes have traditionally been given rather lenient sentences.
What are white collar crimes?
The data we are given about these offenses is number of arrests, not the number reported to the police.
There are two correct answers:
1. For the UCR (also referred to as the Summary Reporting System), what are the Part II offenses?
2. For NIBRS, what are the Group B offenses?