Core Victim's Rights
The right to receive notice of offender status such as arrest, release on bail, and/or release to parole.
Notification
Definitions:
The illegal taking or destroying of someone’s property or land without threats or force..
Property Crime
Two
True or False:
Victims of robbery—unlike property crime victims—are directly threatened by their offenders.
True
Definitions:
Using fear of death, injury, property loss, reputation, and so forth to compel another person to deliver property or perform some act or omission.
Extortion
The right to protection beginning at the crime scene and continuing through the offender’s release on parole.
Safety
Definitions:
The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft...
Burglary
Definitions:
is used to define an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.
Aggravated Assault
True or False:
Robbery may be committed with or without a weapon and with or without physical injury.
True
Definitions:
Making, altering, or possessing a fake copy of a document or object with the intent to deceive. Attempted forgeries are included in this category.
Forgery
The right to attend certain proceedings and/or submit a victim impact statement.
Participation
Definitions:
The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another...
Larceny-Theft
Definitions:
is used to define assaults and attempted assaults where no weapon was used or no serious or aggravated physical injury resulted to the victim. Stalking, intimidation, coercion, and hazing are included in the definition of simple assault.
Simple Assault
Most victims experience a common emotion during the robbery—fear. What secondary emotion is commonly associated with victims of robbery?
Guilt:
Many victims feel guilty because they did not try to prevent the robbery or because they feel somehow responsible for putting themselves in the situation that led to the crime.
The most common violent crime in the US.
Assault
The right to information about the offender, the case proceedings, and the offender’s disposition. The right to be referred to people and agencies that can assist them.
Information/Referral
Definitions:
To willfully or maliciously destroy, injure, disfigure, or deface any public or private property, real or personal, without the consent of the owner or person having custody or control by cutting, tearing, breaking, marking, painting, drawing, covering with filth, or any other such means as may be specified by local law.
Vandalism
True or False:
The number of assault cases is much higher than the number of homicides in the US.
True.
In the US, what was the most commonly used weapon in a robbery last year?
A Handgun
This form of theft/larceny accounted for the majority of all theft within the past year.
People stealing stuff out of parked motor vehicles.
The right to seek restitution directly from the offender for losses resulting from the crime. In addition, victims have the right to apply to their respective State Victim Compensation Fund for financial assistance.
Restitution/Compensation
Definitions:
Buying or receiving property that was stolen or obtained through theft or extortion...
Receipt of Stolen Property
Assault victims often experience shock, ongoing fear, distress, or a loss of their sense of reality. They may experience flashbacks, anxiety, or an inability to concentrate. These reactions and feelings, which are common responses to a traumatic event, may occur over many months or years and may be diagnosed as...
Multiple Choice:
The most common location for robberies is:
A. Hospital waiting rooms
B. Convenience Stores
C. On the Street or Freeway
D. Department Stores
C. On the Street or Freeway
Definitions:
Taking or attempting to take anything of value (actual or perceived) from another person by force or threat of force
Robbery