What Are The Similarities Between Crime And Victimization

Crime victims are a very integral part of the criminal justice system. When a crime occurs, it is the victim who is affected first, who has a first-hand account of the attack other than the offender. It is the victim who can start to point police in the right direction, who can give them an account of what happened, a description of their attacker or the offender if possible and even provide valuable evidence and clues as to not only what the offender did, but why the offender did it and what exactly happened, either in the form of physical or biological evidence on the victim's body, or in the form of an eyewitness account. Crime and Victimization are measured in a few different days, but there are three official ways that crime is measured.
The first one is through the UCR, or Uniform Crime Report. This report is report that is gathered from over 1500 city, county and state agencies that voluntarily provide data to the UCR for its annual crime index and is a combination of property and violent crimes, except for homicides. The next way crime is measured is through the NIBRS, or National Incident-Based Reporting System.
This system was originally designed as a replacement for the UCR, but has not yet been fully implemented. Unlike the UCR, the NIBRS gathers its data from automated record systems of local, state and federal agencies. It reports on a total of 33 offense categories, split into Group A and Group B, bassed on the offense. The final way of reporting is called the NCVS, or the National Crime Victimization Survey. Unlike the previous 2, the NCVS is a survey that is done entirely voluntarily and is collected by the U.S Bureau of Census. The idea behind the NCVS is that it gives victims who haven't reported the crime that was done to them to the police can have a chance for their voice to be heard anonymously. However, it only reports on 7 categories and it does not include homicide. It also does not capture the crimes of homeless individuals or those who chose to leave their home and now live in a shelter. Victim Blaming is when people, especially society, blames the victim for somehow causing their crime by in the way they acted or the way they dressed or for not getting out of the situation fast enough or even for talking to the
offender. Victim blaming happens in most crimes, but happens most often in sexual assault crimes or rape crime. This happens when people, especially society, hear of a crime happening or view a crime happening and view it from their point of view, not the victim's point of view. It can happen especially when people view the crime after it happened and assumed that the victim acted differently than how they would have done it, without taking into account that crime can happen to people from all walks of life and viewing the crime after the fact is not the same as being in that moment, while the crime is happening.