Deck 2: Measuring Crime

Question 1

The UCR stands for:

A)Uniform Cop Report
B)Uniform Court Report
C)Uniform Crime Reports
D)Uniform Corrections Report

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Instances when crimes do not come to the attention of law enforcement or some other criminal justice agency is referred to as ______.

A)missing crime
B)wiped out data
C)dark figure of crime
D)unreported crimes
E)both c and d

Answer 2

E

Question 3

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

A)law enforcement arrests
B)surveys
C)interviews
D)all of these

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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

A)Uniform Homicide Report
B)National Homicide Report
C)Supplementary Homicide Reports
D)None of these

Question 5

The Supplementary Homicide Reports allow for ______ reporting.

A)mandatory
B)minimal
C)voluntary
D)none of these

Question 6

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

A)age
B)state of origin
C)ethnicity
D)none of the above

Question 7

This type of death occurs when the officer is on or off duty and acting in an official capacity while reacting to a situation that would ordinarily fall within the scope of his or her official duties as a law enforcement officer:

A)felonious death
B)line-of-duty
C)thin blue line
D)accidental death

Question 8

The UCR is broken up into two different types of crime:

A)violent and corporate crimes
B)Part I and violent crimes
C)Part I and Part II crimes
D)white-collar and street crimes

Question 9

The FBI developed an enhanced UCR Program which is named the ______.

A)National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
B)Supplemental Homicide Report (SHR)
C)National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
D)Hot Spot Data (HSD)

Question 10

The Hate Crimes Act of 1990 was created because:

A)there was an increasing concern of these types of crimes
B)this was when the first hate crime occurred
C)Latinos protested against educational inequality
D)none of these

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a reason law enforcement would use the NCVS data:

A)to enhance citizen cooperation with officials in deterring and detecting crime
B)to arrest people
C)to establish special police strike forces to combat those crimes
D)all of these

Question 12

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

A)NIBRS
B)UCR
C)NCVS
D)SHR

Question 13

This type of death occurs when an officer dies as a result of an accident he or she is involved in while performing his or her duties (e.g. ,an officer being struck by a vehicle while directing traffic,drowning during a rescue attempt):

A)felonious death
B)line-of-duty
C)thin blue line
D)accidental death

Question 14

Surveys address four broad classes of questions,EXCEPT:

A)the prevalence of attitudes,beliefs,and behaviors
B)changes in these attitudes,beliefs,and behaviors over time
C)differences between groups of people in their attitudes,beliefs,and behaviors
D)racial differences
E)causal propositions about these attitudes,beliefs,and behaviors

Question 15

This type of death occurs when an officer is killed because of or while performing his or her official duties and as a direct result of a criminal act by a subject:

A)felonious death
B)line-of-duty
C)thin blue line
D)accidental death

Question 16

What criminal offense is not measured in the NCVS?

A)rape
B)robbery
C)domestic violence/intimate partner violence
D)murder

Question 17

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

A)Cops
B)Self-report surveys
C)Judges
D)Victim surveys

Question 18

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

A)NCVS
B)NIBRS
C)MTF
D)UCR

Question 19

__________ collects data from participating agencies on officer line-of-duty deaths and assaults.

A)NCVS
B)NIBRS
C)UCR
D)LEOKA

Question 20

Any individuals ______ and older are eligible to participate in the NCVS survey.

A)15
B)10
C)8
D)12

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

There is no separate reporting system or data collection on hate crimes across the United States.

Question 24

Discuss three limitations to the UCR data.

Question 25

The dark figure of crime is a count of the worst crimes in the United States in a given year.

Question 26

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

Question 27

Homicides are less likely to be underreported compared to other crimes counted in the UCR.

Question 28

The UCR is a "summary-based system," meaning these data are a summary,or total count,of crimes based on the reporting agencies.

Question 29

Law enforcement agencies across the United States just recently,in 2010,began collecting crime data.

Question 30

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

Question 31

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.

Question 32

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

Question 33

The Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA)is a supplementary data collection program of the UCR

Question 34

Compare and contrast the SHR and NVSS data.

Question 35

An outlier is an extreme value that significantly differs from the rest of the distribution.

Question 36

Compared to other offenses such as forcible rape,robbery,and aggravated assault,homicide offenses are less likely to have details about the incident,such as the victims and/or offenders.

Question 37

The victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack were classified as victims of murder.

Question 38

Hate crimes are not separate,distinct crimes,but rather traditional offenses motivated by the offender's bias.

Question 39

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

Question 40

Describe the Supplemental Homicide Report and the information it collects on homicide victims and offenders.

Question 41

Discuss various reasons law enforcement may use data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

Question 42

Compare and contrast the NCVS and UCR.

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

Describe the limitations to the NCVS.

Question 46

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

Question 47

Describe at least three limitations to NIBRS data.

Question 48

Describe the different ways in which the death of law enforcement officers are tracked by the UCR data.

Question 49

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

Question 50

Describe the two goals of the NIBRS data collection program.