National Crime Victimization Survey

Definition of Identity Theft The National Crime Victimization Survey stated that, “there is no one universally accepted definition of identity theft as the term describes a variety of illegal acts involving theft or misuse of personal information” (As cited in Copes and Vieraitis, 2012). Therby, a commonly accepted definition of identity theft is known as the unlawful use, or possession, of someone else’s personal identifying information, which, can result in a criminal charge. Personally…

focus being on the traffic stops. The researchers in this article are Lynn Langton and Matthew Durose. The data that was produced in this article comes from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS), and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). This data was gathered and submitted by people of different race and ethnic backgrounds as well as the sample of people sixteen years and older. These records are from 2011 and expand on different topics and…

collected and analyzed to help track where this country is heading and for the years to come. The two main sources of crime statistics come from Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Each program has it own unique way to contribute statistically to these reports and have their own potential sources of error. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program started in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In 1930, the FBI was…

African American women are more vulnerable to domestic violence than White American women. Domestic violence is a physical, sexual, and economic abuse of power. Race, limited resources, and religious beliefs, are some factors for the cruel and violent treatment against Black women. “In 2011, the most recent year for which such data is available, black females were murdered by males at a rate of 2.61 per 100,000 in single victim/single offender incidents. For white women, the rate was 0.99 per…

The authors purpose is to determine the cost of crimes by examining the pain, suffering, and fear caused to the crime victims. Today, criminal activities have affected the cost to society. The state, local, and federal governments spend an estimate of $35 billion annually for community protection, public defenders, and correctional supervision (Miller, Cohen, & Rossman, 1987). Other out-of-pocket expenses includes household items such as locks, burglar alarms, watchdogs, etc. The study estimates…

The relationship between Crime and less fortunate people cannot be underestimated, it may just be the way media has conditioned us to characterize what a criminal looks like and how they live their lives. There are many low income cities and crime rates are widespread across America. One may say that people with low income have nothing to lose when they commit crimes or depressed and desperate to the point that they will commit crimes for the profit of money. Even though crime is committed at…

Sexual assault has proliferated across college campuses, and remains one of the most underreported violent type crimes in the country. The lifestyle college brings of staying up late, drinking, partying, going out to the bars and fraternizing with young men expose women to a higher risk of encountering unwanted sexual conduct. Statistics show that as many as one in every five females to attend college will experience some type of sexual assault in their academic career. Typically the only sexual…

Secret Service who partnered up with the U.S. Department of Education, following the attack at Columbine High School in June of 1999, and it was then implemented through the Secret Services National Threat Assessment Center and the Department of Education’s Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program (Borum, Fein, Modzeleski, Reddy & Vossekuil, 2002). The goal of this study was to gain a better understanding of the thinking, planning, and other pre-attack…

that children account for the vast majority of violent crimes, but these crimes are only 15% of crimes committed by minors. Offenders who represent the majority of crimes committed by minors, sometimes called serious offenders, violent, and chronic. During most of the 1980s, the number of juvenile arrests (ages 10-17) remained stable. Since 1988, the juvenile arrest rate increased dramatically and peaked in 1994. The overall decline in youth crime corresponded to a significant improvement in the…

One unfortunate outcome of women being victimized less is that poor women and women of color are disproportionally victimized by domestic violence. According to Farmer and Tiefenthaler, “Data from the NCVS indicate that being young, black, poor, and divorced or separated all increase to the likelihood of a woman being a victim of intimate partner abuse. Specifically, women ages 20-24 are the most likely to be victimized while black women are 35% more likely to be abused than white women and 2.5…