Exam 2: The Crime Picture

Murders are usually committed by strangers.

The violation of criminal law committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his or her occupation is known as _________________ crime.

Any crime perpetrated through the use of computer technology is known as ___________.

Burglary

Transnational organized crime is the unlawful activity undertaken and supported by organized criminal groups operating across national boundaries.

Larceny

The unlawful,intentional inflicting,or attempted or threatened inflicting,of serious injury upon the person of another is the crime of:

An incident-based reporting system that collects detailed data on every single crime occurrence is the __________________ reporting system.

All of the following are Part I violent crime offenses except:

In 2012,according to the UCR/NIBRS Program,larceny-theft is the most frequently reported major crime.

The U.S.Department of Justice suggests several reasons for the decline of crime from the years 1991-2012.List and explain three of those reasons.

Clearance Rate

The crime in which an impostor obtains key pieces of information,such as Social Security and driver's license numbers,to obtain credit,merchandise,and services in the name of the victim is called:

Describe identity theft and the steps taken to combat it.

Property Crime

Robbery

A traditional measure of investigative effectiveness that compares the number of crimes reported or discovered to the number of crimes solved through arrest or other means is the:

A hate crime is a criminal offense committed against a person,property,or society that is motivated,in whole or in part,by the offender's bias against a race,religion,disability,sexual orientation,or ethnicity/national origin.

R.Allen Stanford was convicted in 2012 of 13 criminal counts and is an example of which type of criminal?

The United States Congress authorized the attorney general to gather and publish the Uniform Crime Reports in: