Measuring Crime and Victimization

Question 1

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

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A federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related info to support research, plicy and other programs

Question 2

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

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A publication fuded by the US Dpeartment of justice a re=search body that brings together data from more than 200 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the US

Question 3

Prohibition Amendment

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Constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacturem sale and procession of alcholoic beverages

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International Association of Chiefs of Police

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Nonprofit international org providing training and edu oppurtunities for police

Question 5

Uniform Crime Report

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FBI publication that offers offical crime data in the US

Question 6

Part1 offenses

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Eight categories of offenses reported in summary form in the UCR

Question 7

Violent Crime Index

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The rate of crimes reported in the part 1 offenses

Question 8

Part 2 offenses

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Also reported in the UCR, consists of 21 less serious offenses

Question 9

heirarchy rule

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UCR practice of reporting only the most serious of crimes in a serires of criminal acts

Question 10

clearence rate

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A measure indicateing the successful aplication of charges made by police against an offender

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National Incident Based Reporting System

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Improves the quality of crime data collected by police by caputuring more details about indiuviual incidents based on offenderm victim and incident level characteristics

Question 12

dislocation

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The hypothesis that motivated crimianal offenders will relocate to smaller communtites with less resources when deterred by crime control m in larger more resources cities

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Bureau of Justice Statics

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A primary source for crimial jstice statistics that compiles reports on many aspects of the crimal justice system including data about federal, state and local cj

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Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1992

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A law requiring college campuses to make a public discosure of crimes occuring on their campuses

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Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communtites Act of 1996

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A law requiring the collection of datam frequency, seriousness and incidences of violence in elementary and secondary schools

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Secondary victimization

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The vitiization caused not by the criminal act, but through the inaprpriate response of institutions and individuals

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Victims rights movement

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The dissatifaction of victims with the neglect and minimization of harm they suffered, leading to a vitims movement for the cj system to prvide them with specific rights

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Presidents Task force on Victims on Crime

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A task force that makes reccomdations for new legislation to be enacted to protect the rights and intrests of crime vitims in the cj system

Question 19

Crime Victims Rights Act

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A law enacted in 2004 that guartees crime vitims a number of rights including the right to protection and restitution

Question 20

contigency

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A situation in a civil case when an attorney agrees to forgo payment in return for a percentage of the potential settlement