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Intro to Criminal Justice Exam 2Uniform Crime Report - correct answer ✔✔FBI maintained
Annual reports on:
1. Crimes known to law enforcement
2. Arrests
Index Crimes
Part 2 Crimes
How does this work?
- Voluntary reporting by local law enforcement agencies
- Pretty good coverage (95%)
- Examine trends across places and time
- Hierarchy Rule
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) - correct answer ✔✔Voluntary reporting by local law
enforcement agencies
- Hierarchy rule goes away
- More information on offense types that distinguish between completed and attempted crimes
- Allows you to track case processing outcome
- Spotty reporting at best
- Lose ability to examine as reliably across places and time
Index Crimes - correct answer ✔✔Top 4 (against persons)
1. Murder
2. Rape
3. Robbery
4. Aggravated Assault
, Bottom 4 (against property)
5. Burglary
6. Theft
7. Motor Vehicle Theft
8. Arson
Self Report Surveys - correct answer ✔✔Ask people about their own offending
- better at estimating more serious crimes
Victimization Surveys - correct answer ✔✔Asking about victimization in your household
- better at estimating more serious offenses
Cons of Surveys - correct answer ✔✔- Lying/misremembering
- Respondent Bias: they tell you what they think you want to hear
- Interviewer Bias: the truth isn't told because of how the interviewer acted
Early England - correct answer ✔✔1. Sheriff
Job: maintain law and order
Today: they are the primary source of rural crime control
2. Constable
3. Coroner
Job: determine cause of death by suspicious activity
4. Justice of the Peace
Typically wealthy landowners
Job: grant bail, oversee lesser criminal matters, and resolve property disputes
Today: kind of like lower criminal courts
Prior to the 1800s in the U.S. - correct answer ✔✔- No organized police force
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