CJ 2597 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: National Crime Victimization Survey, Motor Vehicle Theft, Victimless Crime
23 Mar 2020
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Crime : dependent variable - exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, applied studies; independent variable - ex. how crime affects fear + other attitudes. General issues - analyzing offenses (conceptualizing crimes); deciding unit of analysis + the purpose of the research. Measures of crime are based on police records - some aren"t measured well by records (assaults, robbery) Ucr + shr - murder, crimes - victim is a business/commercial establishment. Ncvs - crimes against persons, households - not reported to police. Self-report surveys - crimes without readily identifiable victims, less often observed by/reported to police. Type i offenses - murder, rape, robbery, larceny, burglary, aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft, arson. Type ii offenses - compilation of less serious crime. Not all law enforcement agencies submit complete reports - fbi. Data = aggregates; can"t be used in descriptive/explanatory studies - individual crimes, offenders, victims. Incident-based police records - based on incidents as units of analysis.
