Exam 2: Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior

Identify one advantage that NIBRS has over the UCR as a source of crime data.

The UCR data tends to ______ the actual number of criminal events while NCVS data tends to ______ the actual number of criminal events.

The UCR is the primary source of official crime statistics in the United States.

Identify two index crimes.

The strength of NIBRS (its comprehensive nature) also turns out to be its weakness in terms of participation.

Discuss the advantages of NIBRS.Why is it not implemented and utilized in many states?

List and describe the problems associated with the National Crime Victimization Survey.What is being done to compensate for these problems?

Females tend to be more honest than males in their responses to self-report surveys.

One of the interview improvements in the methodology of NCVS includes:

Explain self-report surveys, and describe their strengths and weaknesses.

Which agency collects and distributes statistics on specific fugitive individuals wanted for particularly serious crimes, including the publication of a list of the 10 most wanted?

The crime rate refers to the raw number of incidents of crime that have occurred in a given area.

A crime rate is calculated by standardizing the number of reported crimes by some unit of the population.

What does it mean when we say cleared by arrest?

The hierarchy rule impacts which data source?

In an attempt to understand a recent increase in female arrests for assault, a comparison of UCR and NVCS data revealed that the apparent trend was most likely attributable to

What are the three major categories of sources for crime data?

Property crimes are more likely to be cleared than violent crimes.

The UCR and NCVS agree on the basic demographics of those most likely to commit crimes.

Index crimes can only be cleared by arrest.