Ch 2 Flashcards
Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR)
This program, started by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and then moved under the umbrella of the FBI in 1929, is a compilation of crime data.
Supplementary Homocide Reports (SHR)
Supplemental reports to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program that gather details about homocides in the United States, including information about offenders, victims, and incidents.
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
A large and complex national data collection system designed to gather incident-based crime information from law enforcement.
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
A nationally representative surveys of victims of property and personal violence in the United States.
Part I and Part II Crimes
Designation of crime types under the UCR’s Summary Reporting System. Part I crimes are common and serious, while part II crimes are less common and less serious.
Summary Reporting System (SRS)
The original aggregated crime data collected under the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Group A and B Crimes
Two major clusters of crimes gathered by the FBI in NIBRS. Group A consists of 24 crimes covering 52 offenses including homocide and robbery. Group B consists of 10 offenses such as loitering and drunkenness.
Hierarchy rule
Used to facilitate counting crime, this rule ranks crimes from least to most serious. In a criminal incident, only the most serious crime committed during the incident is counted.
National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X)
A collaborative effort between the BJS and FBI (and other organizations) that will produce nationally representative incident-based statistics on crimes using both data reported to law enforcement agencies and a sample.
Dark figure of crime
Crimes that fail to come to the attention of the police, because they were unreported, it was unclear if a crime occurred, or no one learned a crime was committed.
National Crime Survey (NCS)
The predecessor of the National Crime Victimization Survey. The NCS was first implemented in 1972.
Series victimizations
Victimizations not discrete in nature, but ongoing with no defined starting and stopping point. Series victimizations present a conundrum in terms of the best way to count them. Common examples of series victimizations are intimate partner violence, bullying, and sex trafficking of minors.
Worldwide Incident Tracking System
An FBI database containing information on completed terrorists attacks since 1996.
Global Terrorism Database
A database housed at the University of Maryland that contains a broad range of data on threatened, failed, and completed terrorists attacks since 1970.
Crime multiplier
The saturated media presentation of crime that leads to a public that believes there is more crime than there is. In addition, this disproportionate and repetitive coverage leads to enhanced fear of crime among the public.
