Exam 2: Measuring Delinquency

To update and modernize the UCR, the FBI developed the __________

When the police know the identity of a suspect, but cannot make a physical arrest, it is cleared for the UCR through ___________

Factors that can help to understand how, when, where, and why delinquency occurs are called correlates to delinquency.

Which of the following would likely not contribute to unreported crimes?

In order to compare crime rates between different locations, the FBI lists the number of Part I crimes of the UCR as a rate per __________ people.

Adolescents who engage in criminal activity early in life and continue at a high rate well into adulthood are known as __________

How many crimes fall under Part II of the UCR?

The rank-ordering of offenses for the UCR, often contributing to an artificial evaluation of the amount and frequency of crime, is known as a(n) ____________

Someone who has five or more drinks on the same occasion or within a few hours on at least one day in the past thirty is a binge drinker.

The phrase dark figure of crime describes ___________

__________ are most likely to be the victims of physical abuse.

Youth surveys have helped juvenile justice officials and researchers to better understand methods of prosecution.

According to self-report data, about 90 percent of juveniles have committed acts that could have resulted in incarceration had they been caught and prosecuted.

The combination of the UCR and the NCVS reveals how many youths committed crimes but were not arrested.