Exam 2: The Nature and Measurement of Crime

The FBI currently classifies arson as a .

Rules, regulations, norms, folkways, and laws dictate what is acceptable and what will be sanctioned.

Violence that is used as a means to another criminal end is called .

Joel Best contended that perceptions of violence are constructed not by official measures of crime, but by .

The sources of error in the UCR are .

Offenses committed by a corporation's officers who pursue illegal activity in the corporation's name.

This is designed to gather data on each criminal act even if several acts are committed within the same complex of behavior.

This is the use of violence against a state or other political entity to coerce.

This kind of offender is extremely rare.

Why is it important for white-collar and corporate crime to be measured?

According to Joel Best, which popular conception is part of the public's idea of random violence?

The types of property crime that the criminal justice system measures best are those in which the offender and victim do not know each other.

This annual FBI publication uses data from participating U.S. law enforcement agencies to summarize the incidence and rate of reported crime.

This is the most extensive and useful measure of crime available.

Which part of the crime picture do the UCR, self-report studies, and victimization studies tend to miss?

A nonviolent criminal offense committed during the course of business for financial gain.

Carjackings are considered robberies.

Nuisance-type offenses that reflect quality-of-life concerns for many people are called .

Here, individuals are asked to identify the types of offenses they have committed.

Calculate the crime rate in a city of 519,415 people that reported 44,896 criminal offenses in 2008.