Chapter 2. Question 4. How would you measure risk of being a victim? I would measure the risk of being a victim by incorporating the NCVS summary findings for 2009. This survey gives me a broad range of information to use to minimize the risk of being a victim of a crime. It gives us great information such as the following: 1. Gender: men are a little more being victimized then women. 2. Reporting: almost half of the crimes were only reported to police. 3. Race: the highest with 27% for 1000 persons
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Women As Victims of Violent Crime: A look at the FBI stats. by Lili Pintea-Reed‚ PhD Popular images of women as victims in violent crime have probably strayed far from reality. Rather than a mature women attacked by strangers in alley ways‚ the average female victim is young (often a child)‚ poor‚ and a passing aquaintance of the attacker. The perpetrator is most likely an older male of the same race‚ with a past history of violence toward others. Further‚ women are not the most common victims
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Statistics UCR and Self-Report Data Complete the matrix below. To complete this matrix‚ list two pros and two cons of Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data and two pros and two cons of self-report data. |Statistical Information |Pros |Cons | |Official Information: |One pro about the UCR is that it can be |One con about the UCR is that it only incudes crimes that| |Uniform Crime Report (UCR)|helpful
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Identifying UCS‚ UCR‚ CS‚ and CR 1. UCS: the original terrifying ride on the roller coaster UCR: terror CS: the sight of the roller coaster CR: cold sweat 2. UCS: the fried oyster UCR: sickness CS: the smell of frying food CR: nausea 3. UCS: the spaniel’s barking and lunging UCR: initial fright CS: the sight of the spaniel’s house CR: fear and trembling 4. UCS: the canned dog food UCR: salivation
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The myth of the juvenile superpredator is being readily touted in the media these days. Newspapers‚ public speakers‚ television talk shows‚ and news programs‚ have created the idea that society is‚ or soon will be‚ bombarded with a generation of violent‚ apathetic‚ and unremorseful adolescent delinquents (Kappeler‚ Blumberg‚ & Potter‚ 2000‚ p.175). Kappeler‚ Blumberg‚ and Potter refer to this topic in chapter nine‚ "Juvenile Superpredators‚" (Kappeler et al.‚ 2000‚ p175-195) of their text: The Mythology
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official records. There are various surveys and records used across the nation to monitor and measure the crime that takes place. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is a large database‚ complied by the FBI‚ of crimes reported and arrests made each year throughout the United States. It is used for measuring crime. Criminologists also use the UCR as a way to have a better understanding of the nature and extent of crime as well. Statistics‚ according to various policing agencies put their data into computers
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for a system called the Uniform Crime Report program (UCR) in which it came in to working effect in 1929. It was in 1930 a year later‚ in January that the United States Congress enacted a Code that gave the UCR the authority by the attorney general to gather information about crimes. The attorney general then delegated the responsibility to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to act as the bookkeepers for collecting all the crime data for the UCR. In 1930 the FBI became the first agency to start a
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(GadsdenTimes.com‚ 2013) According to the FBI Universal Crime Report (UCR)‚ burglaries in the South Region of the United States declined from 2011 – 2012‚ but in cities of less than 10‚000 residents there was an increase. Attalla‚ Alabama lies within the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of just over 6‚000 placing it within the aforementioned statistical area for populations of less than 10‚000. The UCR reports that nationwide burglary rates had a very small increase for the
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My argument here is this: the media can enhance the authenticity and credibility of their reporting by making use of data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the U.S. Census
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conditioning was discovered by Ivan Pavlov‚ and it involves pairing a neutral stimulus (NS) with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) that elicits an unconditioned response (UCR). Through repeated pairings‚ the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS)‚ which by itself evokes a conditioned response (CR) similar to the original UCR (as evoked by the UCS). Basically‚ the previously-neutral stimulus now acquires the same power as the unconditioned stimulus to
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