Exam 2: Measuring Crime

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Discuss reasons a victim may not report a crime to the criminal justice system.

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Various.1)The victim believed nothing could be done about the incident;2)the victim felt that the crime incident was not important enough to report to the police;3)the victim perceived the incident was too private or personal;and 4)the victim thought that the police would not want to be inconvenienced with the crime incident.

The attorney general is required to develop guidelines and collect data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race,religion,sexual orientation:

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The FBI does not collect data on the number of law enforcement officers killed and assaulted in the United States each year.

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List at least three crime statistics compiled by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States.

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Self-report information can be collected through all of the following except:

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The Hate Crimes Act of 1990 was created because:

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Explain how Monitoring the Future is considered a self-report survey.

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The NVSS data is a subset of the General Social Survey (GSS).

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Unofficial measures of crime,such as the ______,further broaden our understanding of crime with information from official measures of crime.

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In the 1960s,the FBI developed the ______ to gain more information on victims and offenders of murder.

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What are some of the reasons your book states for measuring crime?

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What criminal offense is not measured in the NCVS?

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The ______ collects information to measure substance and alcohol use patterns among youths.

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Counting crime can be used to evaluate and justify programs and policies that try to address criminal activity (e.g. ,rehabilitation,incapacitation,deterrence). 

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______ collect data by asking respondents to provide information about themselves,usually as to whether they have engaged in certain forms of illegal behavior.

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Provide a scenario of a racially motivated hate crime and justify why it would be classified as a hate crime.

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Compare and contrast the SHR and NVSS data.

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Explain the benefits of spatial analysis for the criminal justice field.

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SHR collects additional information pertaining to the incident including details of the murder victim and offender,their relationship to one another,the weapon used,and the circumstances in each criminal homicide.

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On April 23,1990,the president signed into law the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990.

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