CRIM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Uniform Crime Reports, Burglary, Victimology
Document Summary
Crim 100- lecture 5- chapter 3: measuring crime and victimization. The uniform crime report: a database of information about. Key terms reported crimes collected by the fbi over time. Part 1 offenses: a uniform crime report category group including: violent offenses. Murder: all intentional killings and deaths that. Robbery: the use of force to commit a theft. Aggravate assault: the act of inflicting injury on happen another: property offenses (not non violent offenses) Burglary: breaking/gaining access into a building with intent to commit a theft. Vehicle theft: any vehicle authorized to run on. Arson: intentional and malicious setting of a a public street fire in a structure. Hierarchy rule:an old police method of counting only the most serious crime in a single incident involving multiple crimes. Dark figure of crime statistics: the crimes that are not reported or taken care of not through the proper authorities.
