SOC 1003 Lecture Notes - Ex Post Facto Law, Shoplifting, National Crime Victimization Survey
Document Summary
Intro to criminal justice 1003 with martin schwartz. No white collar or corporate crime is in the index crimes. But half of the criminal justice system"s business is with drugs. Is there a way to find out how many crimes are not reported: national crime victimization survey. 76,000 households with 135,300 people over the age of 12 are surveyed ever 6 months on whether or not they were the victim of a crime, and if so, what kind of crime. Homicide is not included, because you can not say someone killed you. There is generally twice as much crime found out this way than the. 50% of serious crime is reported to the police such as: rape or assault. Less than 40% of property crimes is reported. Crime rates showed a drop from 2000 to 20009, but have been slowly increasing since then: self-report survey. This uncovers an enormous amount of crime.
