Deck 15: Compensation and Restitution of Victims

Question 1

The UCR measures certain property crimes per capita (number of crimes per 100,000 persons),while the NCVS measures these crimes per household (number of crimes per 1,000 households).

Answer 1

True

Question 2

All the following crimes are considered to be index offenses:murder and manslaughter,forcible rape,robbery,burglary,kidnapping,and motor vehicle theft.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Household crimes are the second highest reported form of crime.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Presently,there are seven offenses in the UCRs known as the "crime index."

Question 5

The Hate Crimes Statistics Act reporting requirements used the UCR guidelines.

Question 6

The measurement of crime can never be completely accurate.

Question 7

Arson is not considered as an index offense under the UCR system.

Question 8

Violent crimes are the most likely NOT to be reported to the police.

Question 9

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)formed the Commission on Uniform Crime Reports to develop a uniform system of reporting criminal statistics.

Question 10

Recent studies indicate that economic crimes,such as fraud,do not occur at all socioeconomic levels within our society.

Question 11

The most common reason given for not reporting violent crimes to the police is that the crime was considered by the victim to be a private or personal matter.

Question 12

Personal thefts are the least likely crimes to be reported to the police.

Question 13

The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)collects data on only index crimes.

Question 14

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that the most common reason victims give for reporting crimes to the police is to prevent further crimes from being committed against them by the same offender.

Question 15

Because of several inherent shortcomings in the UCR,the NCVS was developed.

Question 16

The NCVS report is prepared annually by the FBI.

Question 17

The NCVS survey relies on self-reporting in an attempt to determine a more accurate accounting of the nature and extent of crimes in our society.

Question 18

The most well-known official crime report is the NCVS.

Question 19

Official crime reports are measurements of crime conducted only by state and local agencies.

Question 20

The UCR was designed to complement the NCVS,and each program therefore has similarities.

Question 21

The goal of the NIBRS program is

A)replacement of the NCVS.
B)replacement of the UCR.
C)correct the nonreporting inherent in the UCR.
D)correct the nonreporting inherent in the NCVS.

Question 22

Both the UCR and the NCVS are administered by the U.S.Department of ____.

Question 23

The UCRs rely on ___ ____agencies to voluntarily report crimes.

Question 24

What are the problems with the UCR?

Question 25

The ____ seeks to determine the needs and problems of state and local criminal justice agencies.

Question 26

The _____ is a nationwide sample of interviews of citizens regarding victimization.

Question 27

Clinical studies are another source of information regarding violence.These studies are carried out by _______.

Question 28

A program that is a nationwide statistical computation involving more than 1,600 cities,counties,and state law enforcement agencies that voluntarily provide data on reported crimes.

A)National Assessment Program (NAP)
B)National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
C)Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
D)National Incident-Based Reporting System

Question 29

The ____ can furnish information on nearly every major criminal justice issue facing law enforcement.

Question 30

What are the most common reasons that people do not report violent crimes?

Question 31

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)Program was started in ____.

Question 32

Official reports are measurements of crime conducted by ____agencies.

Question 33

Explain how NIBRS works.

Question 34

The Hate Crime Statistics Act was passed by Congress in 1990 and mandates that a database of crimes motivated by ______ be collected.

A)religion
B)ethnicity
C)race
D)sexual orientation
E)All of the above

Question 35

An incident-based reporting system in which agencies collect data on each single crime occurrence is _____.

Question 36

What are the criticisms of the NCVS?

Question 37

_____ seeks to determine the needs and problems of state and local criminal justice agencies.

A)National Assessment Program (NAP)
B)National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
C)Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
D)National Incident-Based Reporting System

Question 38

What are the most common reasons that people report property crimes?

Question 39

_____ is a nationwide sample of interviews of citizens regarding victimization.

A)National Assessment Program (NAP)
B)National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
C)Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
D)National Incident-Based Reporting System

Question 40

Under the NIBRS,arson is a Group ___ offensive.

Question 41

Why should NIBRS be more useful to the police?

Question 42

Why is it so difficult to determine the actual level of criminal activity?