Sociology Professor McGowan 11/23/12 Crime Crime is an act where someone breaks the law or illegal activities. There different types of crimes such as vice crimes‚ street crime and computer crime. Vice crime is a crime where someone is doing a criminal act such as gambling or drug use. Street crime is something down the lines of rape‚ robbery‚ or assault. Finally is computer crime‚ which would be hacking on the computer for money or personal mail. These crimes are different and can affect our society
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Defining and Measuring Crime The Uniform Crime Report (ucr) is an annually (yearly) report compiled by the FBI to give an indication of criminal activity. They organize offenses known to the police. The UCR divides the criminal offenses into categories: part 1 offense and part II offense. Part 1 offenses are crimes that are recorded by the FBI to give a general idea of the crime picture. Part 1 offenses crimes can be covered by the media and consequently inspire the most fear if crime in population. The
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William P Obptande Check Point Crime Reporting and Rates Response Write a 200- to 300-word response in which you address the following questions: What is the purpose of major crime-reporting programs? What makes a successful crime-reporting program in the United States? Programs generally report little detailed information about program expenditures and results. Consequently‚ it is difficult to hold programs accountable for performance. There is also a lack of information about which
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Introduction According to the U.S. Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics‚ by 2000 more than 300 million users around the globe accessed the World Wide Web. Of those‚ at least 1 million were engaged in illegal Internet activities (computer crime or "cyber-crime"). Cyber-crimes include Internet-related forgery‚ embezzlement‚ fraud‚ vandalism‚ and the disposal of stolen goods. The potential threat to the overall development of e-commerce was serious—so much so that online security expenditures were expected
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Crime Scene In an organized step by step approach “Scene Documentation” is one of the stages in the proper processing of a crime scene. The final results of a properly documented crime scene are the ability of others to take the finished product to use in either reconstructing the scene or the chain of events in an incident and our court room presentation. In documenting the scene there are actually three functions or methods used to properly document the crime scene. Those methods consist
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Measuring Crime Trends Felicia Moye Miller-Motte College Most measurement of crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. For almost seven decades‚ the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdictions throughout the country. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)‚ a general population survey designed to discover the extent‚ nature‚ and consequences of criminal victimization
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to wear uniforms as a way of reducing the risk of violence and creating a positive‚ productive learning environment. Nowadays‚ fashion is a popular issue‚ but it leads to many complex problems in our society. Most people tend to express themselves by what they wear. They wear different clothes beginning from the ‘strange’ clothes to the vulgar ones. This tendency is practiced by young people by wearing many creative clothes‚ however‚ their choices are sometimes inappropriate. From the one hand‚ it
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PREDICTING CRIME WITH THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING SYSTEM Predicting Crime With the Uniform Crime Reporting System Mitchell Adair Introduction to Criminal Justice: CJA 105-AUO A01 Argosy University 1 The Uniform Crime Reporting System is a statistical effort that is said to be cooperative of more than ten thousand state‚ city‚ and county law enforcement agencies on a basis that is considered
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Problem Identification The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 was created to solve the problem of high crime. To deal with the crime problem in our nation‚ there must be a balance approach between getting tough on the hard-core violent offenders‚ and prevention and treatment for nonviolent offenders‚ all within the context of punishment. The major crimes that were going on in 1994 were the war on drugs‚ gun violence‚ and juvenile violence(book‚ pg.470). It was suggested that police
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Violence Hate Crimes A hate crime can be defined in two ways‚ by the legal definition and the criminological definition. The legal definition of a hate crime is a traditional offense like murder‚ arson‚ or vandalism with an added element of bias‚ a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race‚ religion‚ disability‚ ethnic origin or sexual orientation. The criminological definition of a hate crime is a crime committed as an
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