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19 Cards in this Set
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Big picture |
Patterns and trends in the 21 century |
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How are statistics used ? |
Compiled and published by government provide realistic assessment of threat posed to individuals by criminal activity (reveals patterns & trends) is UC |
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UCR part 1 crimes |
8 total 4 violent data crimes- rape, murder, robbery and aggravated assault 4 property crimes - burglary, larceny theft, motor theft & arson |
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Trends |
Increases or decreases in variable over time |
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Profiles |
Statistically based portraits of the characteristics most offenders or victims share in common |
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Patterns |
Regularities and predictable relationships that emerge during the analysis of victimization data |
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Part 1 index offenses |
FBI adds all the known incidents of each one of the ucr part 1 crimes to compute a crime index |
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History of uniform crime report |
1927 by chiefs of police to develop a uniform set of definitions and reporting of crime statistics |
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NIBRS |
National crime victim survey tracks 46 group A offenses |
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Hierarchy rule |
Instruction from FBI ucr division to local police departments to classify each incident in which several laws were broken, most serious offense that was committed |
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Self survey report |
Depends on respondents revealing their experiences |
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Victim |
Individual who suffers injuries loses or hardships |
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Victimology vs criminology |
Subdivision of a specialization within criminology. Why are people targets vs Why people become criminals |
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Victimologists |
Analyze why they happen & how to prevent incidents. How justice system operates |
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Primary & secondary victims |
The person who is directly effected vs. people who are involved in the incident who are also effected |
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Plea negotiations |
Prosecution offers to the defense to convince the accused to admit guilt & settle case w/o going to trial |
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Attention on victims been renewed? |
News media portrays victims plight, shield laws |
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Who brings attention to the problems of victims |
Advocates, awareness groups |
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Sensationalism |
Tendency to exaggerate or distort aspects of a crime to abstract greater media coverage for personal commercial gain |
