National Crime Victimization Survey

Rape Culture and Those Shamed In our society, we perceive those who dress differently, whether conservatively or indecently, to be out of the norm. Often, survivors of sexual assault are questioned about their appearance during the crime. If victims reveal that they were wearing “provocative or immodest clothing, the blame of the violence of rape is often shifted to them. Regardless of their gender or clothing choice, victims of sexual violence should not be ridiculed, isolated, or shamed for…

In the 1990’s during the Simpson trial some of the methods used by law enforcement to track crime and behavioral patterns were through organizations such as The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR), and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The UCR is a reporting program through the FBI and is responsible for tracking crimes that are reported to the police. The program collects information from all over the United States. It is then…

Crime in the U.S has actually gone up since 1970 and they have also declined in the 1990’s and slowly going down in the U.S. today. Though crime has gone down as a whole, violent crimes have increased due to the non-stop violence that’s been going on for the past 30 years, property crimes have decreased as well. Gun homicides have gone down nearly 49% since the 90’s. There are 73.8 million youth under the age of 18 in the United States in 2012, 1.3 million of those juveniles have had criminal…

Demographics in Prison Minorities in Prison According to the National Conference of State Legislators, in 2018, only thirty states in the U.S. had any sort of legislation passed to address racial profiling by the police. Minority rights groups, including the NAACP, have continued their fight to try and push states to pass laws that protect minorities when dealing with police. Many group leaders are looking to separate the duties of an immigration officer and a police officer. In many states, the…

Male’s points out that in the same survey, if you ignore the age related issue there is an even larger proportion, one third, of violent offenses that were carried out in groups were African Americans, of all ages. Males concludes this survey of group offending is not about age or race but poverty, which is all too common among African Americans and adolescents (Guest, 2013, p.…

Information that is collected on the offenders before they are released includes fingerprints, photograph, name, physical description and current address, as well as place of employment if any, the crime of which convicted and date of conviction, and the date released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation. The DeKalb County Sheriff Office maintains the records on file. They also release the information collected to the public…

Hate crimes are vindictive, vigorous acts perpetrated against individuals or groups based on resentment of values, religion, race, and life style preferences. Thus, it is a violent form of criminality motivated by prejudice or intolerance towards an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. It has exacerbated in the past few years. Nevertheless, a person’s sexual orientation can contribute to a person being a target of…

Sexual Victimization has several meanings and could happen anywhere. I choose this topic because a case occurred right here in Ocala that was so disturbing, it made the top of my list. According to (Wallace & Roberson,2014) Sexual victimization has several meanings – verbal coercion to have sex with a partner, rape by a stranger, or a woman/man that is being fondled in a bar and forced intercourse when a woman is way too intoxicated to protest. In this case sexual violence along with kidnapping…

Crime statistics are used by law enforcement agencies, Federal, State, and local policy makers, and by many other agencies to assess the amount of crime occurring in certain areas. The accuracy of crime statistics is highly important in all criminal justice departments as well as related agencies. In a 2010 study, after interviewing twenty different staffing experts representing several agencies across the nation, Wilson and Weiss concluded that crime rates were one of the most analyzed sets of…

Crime and Criminality One of the first courses that I took when I started college was Introduction to Criminal Justice. We talked about a little bit of everything, including what we discussed in class; measurement, victimization, theories of criminality, violent crime, punishment, and more. This Criminology course expanded my knowledge on crime and criminality in many aspects. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR), National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), stalking, punishment and its consequences,…