Exam 2: Measuring and Explaining Crime

Which of the following is NoT considered a violent crime? ​

Criminologists focusing on sociology have argued that are the most important variable in predicting criminal behavior. ​

UCR Part I offenses include attempted as well as completed crimes. ​

Describe the Uniform Crime Report (UCR). When doing so, please discuss whois responsible for compiling this crime measurement, when was it officially implemented, and what does it include when reported? Next, please compare and contrast Part I and Part II crimes of the UCR. ​

Assault and battery are the same crime. ​

Social conflict theory focuses on   ____as a key component in explaining crime. ​

one of the most widespread self-reported surveys in the United States, "The Drug Use Forecasting Program", collects information on narcotics use from arrestees whohave been brought intobooking facilities. Since there is nopenalty for admitting tocriminal activity in a self-reported survey when administered by a researcher, subjects tend tobe more forthcoming in discussing their behavior. As a result, this has led researchers toa striking conclusion: the dark figure of crime, known as the actual amount of crime that takes place, appears tobe much larger than the UCR or NCVS would suggest. However, as Sheriff of your county and overseer of the jail, you have been asked by the researcher tohave your deputies collect the survey instruments. Knowing that your deputies will now be seeing suspect's information regarding their actual criminal activity, doyou decline the request of the researcher, or doyou have your deputies follow through by collecting the data? Please fully explain your plan.

Please explain in detail the "routine activities theory" of victimization. When doing so, be sure todiscuss what the theory states regarding how one may become a victim of a crime. ​

A theory is ____________ ​

Crimes that involve strangers most often target women. ​

T he school of criminology that is often associated with a critique of our capitalist economic system is ___ ​

________ are researchers whostudy the causes of crime and criminal behavior. ​

A theory of crime in which offenders weigh the possible benefits of criminal activity against the costs of being apprehended is ____________ ​

Although crime and victimization rates have decreased across racial lines over the past twenty years in the U.S., the trends have been less positive for African Americans than for whites. For example, blacks are 6.3 times more likely tobe homicide victims than whites and significantly more likely tobe homicide offenders. African Americans are particularly susceptible togun violence, with firearm murder rates of 14.6 per 100,000 adults, compared to1.9 for whites and 4.0 for Hispanics. Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood, which is 96 percent black, has a homicide rate of 116 per 100,000 people. In comparison, Honduras, the worldwide leader in murders, has a homicide rate of only 90 per 100,000. As the newly elected Mayor of Chicago, you have a major gang problem stemming from illegal drug territorial disputes within city limits, which is ultimately responsible for a major percentage of recent African American homicides. In your role as Mayor, you must act. How will you deal with this epidemic, and more specifically, whowill you call upon toassist with these efforts and what will be your plan? Please fully explain your answer.

Young African American males from urban neighborhoods are the most common victims of crime. ​

________ is the maltreatment, including physical violence and psychological abuse, which occurs within a familial or other intimate relationship. ​

Men are much more likely tobe victims of intimate partner violence. ​

one influential branch of psychology-________________________-focuses on human behavior in the context of how human beings relate toand influence one another. ​

Part II UCR offenses are measured only by ____data. ​

Discuss how race, ethnicity, and poverty are related tocrime. ​