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 NCVS
 Other Sources
 Methodology Generally
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Data about Crime
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Sources & Methods
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Of today’s reading, you…
Read none; I don’t own the book
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Belief: Poverty “causes” crime
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Findings: rates higher in wealthier areas
Skimmed or read parts of it
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Read it all once
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Motivates toward offence
Because more opportunities for crime?
Balance of ev. shows corr. w/ econ stress
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Read it, highlighted, & took notes
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12%
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UCR
Guerry (1833) and Quetelet (1831)
Read none; it wasn’t a priority for me
10%
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The entire book
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Need a note-taker – see me after
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Can’t send w/o your info and permission
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Register for an account
Register clicker (if using one)
Buy license (or enter, if bundled w/ clicker)
Get added to class (find, or accept invite)
Still only 98 completed intake forms
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1. About how long was the
reading for today?
Administrative Matters
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But not all motivational theory is materialist
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Strain theory vs. Social opportunity theory
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for?
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Limitations & Criticisms
Accuracy
Exaggeration of trends
 Politically motivated reporting
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Uniform Criminal Rapsheet
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Others
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Uniform Crime Reports
B.
UCR
Uniform Crime Reports
United Criminal Report
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Underwritten Crime Readings
D.
0%
Ugly Quiz Realization
E.
0%
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4. How many parts does
the UCR have?
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Collected by the FBI, since 8/30
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400 cities, 20m -> 1600 cities, 249m
 Crime data no longer local – trends, variety
 Most common until 1972 (NCVS)
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C.
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D.
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74%
8%
12%
5
E.
6%
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Uniform Crime Reports
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Combined crimes (hate, vilent, property)
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21 arrests only
Don’t report rates – only volume & % change
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In 1994, 120K
Focus on victims, rather than offenders
Victimization rates
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Less than UCR
Same as any research
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About 50% not reported to police?
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Clearance rates
Regional trends
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Other info
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About respondents experience of crime
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Crime rate = # crimes reported / population * 100K
Type II: “criminal offenses”
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8 arrests and crimes known to police
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Nat’l Crime Victimization Survey
Type I: “index crimes”
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Reliability, validity, sampling
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Self-Report Surveys
About respondent commission of crime
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Anonymous, & extensive
Wallerstein & Whyle, 1947
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Self-Report Surveys
B.
Uniform Crime Reports
C.
National Incident-Based Reporting System
D.
National Crime Victimization Survey
E.
Federal Report of Criminological Data
37%
Connects sociocultural factors (vs. UCR aggregate)
Problems
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Prohibitively expensive
Not standardized (vs. DOJ – changes, but standard)
59%
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35%
3.
4%
4.
46%
5.
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3. Which of these is not
discussed in today’s reading?
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Cases Studies
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Biographies
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Archival Data
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8%
46%
31%
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Esp. from Victimology
And other qualitative/narrative sources
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It provides mostly rough trends, versus the
relatively robust data of NCVS.
It is provided through official and routine police
reporting processes.
It is subject to bias from media attention to
particular crimes or areas.
It is provided by surveying criminals and those
incarcerated for crimes.
It is less subject to technical adjustments in
reporting.
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5. Which is not true of NCVS
data?
15%
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Ethnography & Fieldwork
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Other Sources
Self-Report Surveys
Uniform Crime Reports
Sourcebook of Criminal Statistics
National Crime Victimization Survey
Federal Report of Criminological Data
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1%
Nye & Short (1957) – treatment varies, not commision
Clark & Tifft (1966) – encouraged validity w/ polygraph threat
National Youth Survey (NYS)
Benefits
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UCR
1%
Almost all committed a crime
64% had committed a felony
Focus on juvenile offenders
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Read it all once
Read none; it
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2.6
Skimmed or read
part...
Read it, highlighted...
Read none; I don’t
o...
2.44
2.19
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