Exam 6: Measuring Crime

Every local and state enforcement agency:

__________ is an effort to convert the UCR to a more comprehensive crime report.

One important step in selecting a measure of crime is deciding what crimes will be included.

Different measures of crime tend to focus on different types of crime, primarily because:

Which of the following are not accounted for by the NCVS?

According to your text, what do police cite as a main problem in the enforcement of drug laws?

__________ affords a comparatively long-term time series that monitors the most serious medical consequences of drug use.

The core sample of Monitoring the Future is:

The most widely known victim survey is the:

__________ systems have been developed to obtain alternative measures of drug use.

A single incident cannot include multiple offenses, but may have one offense and multiple offenders.

Part II offenses of the UCR are counted when:

With regard to the UCR, one of the reasons that Part II offenses are counted only if an arrest is made is:

Identify the major efforts to gather information about drug abuse in the United States. How do these measures compare with one another? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each?

The victim in crimes such as prostitution, drug use, and bookmaking is __________ .

Like __________ reporting, NIBRS is voluntary; no agency is required to submit crime reports to the FBI in any form.

__________ surveys are best at measuring crimes that do not have readily identifiable victims and those that are less observed by police.

The most widely used measures of crime are based on police records and are commonly referred to as:

The four elements of a crime for reporting purposes are offender, victim, __________ , and incident.

UCR crime data is reported broken down into how many parts?