CCJ 3024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Crime Victimization Survey, Structured Interview, Racial Profiling

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 3024
• Professor: Andrew Kuo

Document Summary

National incident-based reporting system (nibrs: ucr of the future, collects data on each reported crime incident. Requires a brief account of each incident and arrest, including the incident, victim, and offender information: currently, includes 33 states covering about 1/3 of the u. s. population (florida not included). The national crime victimization survey (ncvs: a survey conducted twice a year of a large sample of households/individuals, measures criminal victimization experiences regardless of whether they were reported, data used to estimate the total amount of crime. Self-report surveys: surveys/interviews that ask respondents to reveal their criminal behaviors, administered in groups anonymously, mostly used to measure crime among adolescents, access the dark figure of crime, usually smaller sample size. Won"t include people in the whole nation, but maybe just the people of certain states or cities. *farther we get from the crime = less accurate representation of true crime* Offense & arrest data on 22 categories of crime, covering 46 offense (just not 8)