Question 1

The UCR stands for:

Accepted Answer

UCR stands for Uniform Crime Reports, which is a program developed by the FBI to collect and report statistics on crime in the United States. The program has been in place since 1930 and is widely used by law enforcement agencies and researchers to analyze crime trends and patterns.

Question 2

Instances when crimes do not come to the attention of law enforcement or some other criminal justice agency is referred to as ______.

Accepted Answer

The term "dark figure of crime" refers to crimes that are not reported to or discovered by law enforcement, and "unreported crimes" directly indicates crimes that are not reported. Both terms describe instances when crimes do not come to the attention of criminal justice agencies.

Question 3

Self-report information can be collected through all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

Law enforcement arrests are not a form of self-report information as they are typically recorded by law enforcement officers at the time of the arrest, rather than being voluntarily reported by the individual being arrested. Surveys and interviews, on the other hand, are commonly used to collect self-report information.

Question 4

In the 1960s,the FBI developed the ______ to gain more information on victims and offenders of murder.

Accepted Answer

The Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) were developed by the FBI in the 1960s to gather more detailed information on homicides, including data on both victims and offenders. The Uniform Homicide Report existed prior to the SHR, but it provided more limited information. The National Homicide Report is not a known report created by the FBI.

Question 5

The Supplementary Homicide Reports allow for ______ reporting.

Accepted Answer

The Supplementary Homicide Reports are voluntary reporting by law enforcement agencies.

Question 6

The attorney general is required to develop guidelines and collect data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race,religion,sexual orientation:

Accepted Answer

The attorney general is tasked with addressing crimes that show prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and ethnicity, but not age or state of origin.

Question 7

This type of death occurs when the officer is on or off duty and acting in an official capacity while reacting to a situation that would ordinarily fall within the scope of his or her official duties as a law enforcement officer:

Accepted Answer

A line-of-duty death occurs when a law enforcement officer dies while on duty or while acting in an official capacity, and in response to a situation that would normally fall within their duties as a law enforcement officer. This can include deaths from felonious acts, as well as accidental deaths. The Thin Blue Line refers to the concept of law enforcement as a symbol of order and safety within society, and is not directly related to this type of death.

Question 8

The UCR is broken up into two different types of crime:

Accepted Answer

The UCR (Uniform Crime Report) is divided into two different categories of crime: Part I crimes and Part II crimes. Part I crimes include serious offenses such as homicide, robbery, and burglary, while Part II crimes include less serious offenses like simple assault, vandalism, and drug offenses. This categorization helps law enforcement officials and researchers to better understand and address different types of criminal activity.

Question 9

The FBI developed an enhanced UCR Program which is named the ______.

Accepted Answer

The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is the enhanced UCR Program developed by the FBI. The NCVS is a separate survey conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics to collect information on crime victimization, the SHR is a supplementary report on homicide incidents, and the HSD is not a recognized program or system in the field of criminal justice.

Question 10

The Hate Crimes Act of 1990 was created because:

Accepted Answer

The Hate Crimes Act of 1990 was created because there was an increasing concern about crimes motivated by prejudice against a person's race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a reason law enforcement would use the NCVS data:

Accepted Answer

The NCVS data is a survey that collects information from individuals about their experiences with crime, including victimization and perceptions of crime in their community. It is not used to directly arrest people. The other options are all potential uses of the data by law enforcement.

Question 12

Unofficial measures of crime,such as the ______,further broaden our understanding of crime with information from official measures of crime.

Accepted Answer

NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) is an unofficial measure of crime that provides information on victimization experiences across a wider spectrum of criminal activity than UCR (Uniform Crime Report), the official measure of crime. However, in the given options, only NCVS is an unofficial measure of crime.

Question 13

This type of death occurs when an officer dies as a result of an accident he or she is involved in while performing his or her duties (e.g. ,an officer being struck by a vehicle while directing traffic,drowning during a rescue attempt):

Accepted Answer

Accidental death. This type of death occurs when an officer dies as a result of an accident he or she is involved in while performing his or her duties. Examples include an officer being struck by a vehicle while directing traffic or drowning during a rescue attempt.

Question 14

Surveys address four broad classes of questions,EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Racial differences are not one of the broad classes of questions addressed by surveys. The other options (A, B, C, and E) are all commonly addressed by surveys.

Question 15

This type of death occurs when an officer is killed because of or while performing his or her official duties and as a direct result of a criminal act by a subject:

Accepted Answer

Felonious death refers to the death of an officer as a direct result of a criminal act while performing official duties.

Question 16

What criminal offense is not measured in the NCVS?

Accepted Answer

Murder is not measured in the NCVS because it is a crime that cannot be reported by the victim.

Question 17

______ collect data by asking respondents to provide information about themselves,usually as to whether they have engaged in certain forms of illegal behavior.

Accepted Answer

Self-report surveys are designed to collect data by directly asking respondents to provide information about themselves, such as whether they have engaged in certain forms of illegal behavior. This type of survey is a common method used in criminological research to collect data on criminal activity. The other options, such as cops, judges, and victim surveys, may provide valuable information but they do not involve asking people to report on their own behavior in the same direct way as self-report surveys.

Question 18

The ______ collects information to measure substance and alcohol use patterns among youths.

Accepted Answer

MTF (Monitoring the Future) collects data on substance and alcohol use patterns among youths through annual surveys of high school students in the United States. NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) collects data on crime victimization, NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System) collects data on specific types of crimes reported to law enforcement, and UCR (Uniform Crime Report) collects data on reported crimes from law enforcement agencies across the country.

Question 19

__________ collects data from participating agencies on officer line-of-duty deaths and assaults.

Accepted Answer

LEOKA (Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted) collects data on line-of-duty deaths and assaults from participating agencies. NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey), NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System), and UCR (Uniform Crime Reporting) do not specifically collect data on officer line-of-duty deaths and assaults.

Question 20

Any individuals ______ and older are eligible to participate in the NCVS survey.

Accepted Answer

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Quiz 2: Measuring Crime