CRM/LAW C109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: National Crime Victimization Survey, Uniform Crime Reports, Bad Hindelang
16 Jun 2018
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Lecture 7: C109
April 24th 2018
I. iClicker Questions
A. The term “uniform crime reports” refer to:
1. The data from police that tabulated by the FBI
B. Self report surveys are best used for:
1. Studying the causes and correlates of many forms of delinquency
C. On balance, the research on measurement of crime and delinquency suggests:
1. Considerable convergence among techniques for many of the largest
correlates
2. Caution from each measure about the statistical rarity of the most serious
form of crime
3. The advantage of looking at large areas, times, and aggregations of
offenses
4. A recognition that arrest data depend on both on what gets reported to the
police and decision made by the police
II. Some version of self report is major technique used in causal studies
A. Generally accepted scales, due to Hindelang, Weiss, and Hirschi
B. Can be tailored to research questions: interested in self-control; or strains, or peer
influences
C. Efficient
D. Many findings are replicated many times: family variables, peers, school
variables, distribution of delinquency in samples; some individual variables like
self-control. Over time, areas, even cross-culturally
E. But never forget, depends on the answer given by those we are interested in
III. Victimization surveys
A. Major one is National Crime Victimization Survey
B. Two times per year, nationally representative sample t 49,000 households or
about 100,000 persons
C. Personal and property offenses (not business)
D. victim/offender relationship, offender characteristics, victim characteristics, are
the strengths
IV. Victimization Survey Findings
A. Major patterns are consistent with official data
B. Shows trends over time
C. Place correlates
D. age , sex, and race correlates are similar
E. Big differences associated with lifestyles
1. Such as with personal victimization
