Victimless Crime Summary

Everyday in the United States major crimes are committed which cause risk and much destruction to the many neighborhoods and communities of America. For many years it has been a job for investigators to figure out why these crimes are being committed and where they are most likely to occur. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are just two of the many methods used by the government in order to keep track of criminal activities and to collect data.

To increase the validity, the alternative measure of Victim surveys (VS), are used to eliminate the dark figures of OCS. This is used to provide a fuller picture of crimes. VS data is collected quantitatively so it is easily recorded, and be easily put into a graph to find trends and patterns. As not all crimes are reported or recorded, it is difficult to get an accurate figure. Some crimes may not be reported as the victim feels the police may not be able to do anything about the crime committed, or possible fear of reprisals. As VS give the opportunity to ask people if they have been the victim of crime within the past 12 months. This gives a gateway for unreported crimes to be recorded and included within the OCS. Problems may arise with the use of

* Weaknesses of NCVS – One weakness of this survey is that it has limited scope. (Crime, Offenders, and Victims, pg 66) This survey only looks at two subject areas such as personal crimes and household crimes. Another weakness is that the data may not be reliable because the victims cannot always recall the events due to the trauma. (Crime, Offenders, and Victims, pg 66)

The purpose of this literature review is to explore the impact of victim statements in the

​The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) was formulated by the federal government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics to address non-reported issues by victims in the United States, according to the textbook. Many people are victim of crimes that are not reported to the proper authorities for whatever reason. Other potential crimes are also reported to the NCVS whereas citizen was almost victimized. The crime trends are used to categorize the incident, victim, and location of the criminal act or potential harmful act.

19. What is one of the major problems with the Uniform Crime Reports? A) No county arrest figures are reported

Questions involving the nature of crimes, injury, and weapons are asked. The victim’s and offender’s age, sex, race, and relationship are disclosed along with the victim’s marital status, and education level. All crimes even the unreported are asked along with details to help understand the situation. The NCVS is the only survey that can manage to handle crimes which were not reported.

Throughout chapter 2, the main focus was types of crime and how they are reported/kept track of. In order to keep track of crime rates, Uniform Crime Reports (UCRS) and National Crime Victimization Surveys are used. Both of them have their positives and negatives. Uniform Crime Reports for instance, are beneficial because it keeps track of major crimes that have happened. It tracks the offenses such as Murder, Rape, Robbery, Assault, Burglary, Larson, and Auto Theft. Since murder is hard to get away with, it has a very accurate number when showing the statistics for that crime. On the other hand, half the crimes that happen go unreported like rape, theft, and assault. That is where the National Crime Victimization Surveys come in handy. The

Crime is not an easy concept to define and is very problematic. The two proposed definitions offered by Dr. Hutchinson of crime is behavior that violates laws and behavior that violates morality. These two definitions often do not correspond with each other. In the case of behaviors that violate morality, there is not a plaintiff. Examples of behavior that violates morality are white collar crime and prostitution. These crimes usually do not involve victims of any kind but are just simply illegal due to norms and morals of society. Society is also morally opposed to them or does not like the kinds of people who are committing these acts. Law violating crimes usually involve a victim. Usually, this victim brings charges against the accused and

The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and National Crime Victims Survey (NCVS) are both measurements that track crime in United States. The UCR is run by the FBI and collects data on all crime known to the police. Sometimes this is detrimental because police stations can decide what crime that want report and how they want to report them. Each police station can report statistics for the same crime, yet have them be very different because one can report all crimes that had an arrest, while another can report any crime that happened. On the other hand, the NCVS is run by the University of Michigan and gathers statistics of all crimes. The negative side of this is the NCVS does not report victimless crimes. Both are reputable, yet have drastically

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR for short) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS for short) are two methods used by law enforcement to report the number of crimes happening monthly and yearly, at minimum. The UCR makes monthly reports on Part 1 crimes (or the serious offenses) and Part 2 crimes (anything that isn’t a traffic violation or a Part 1 crime) that were reported to the police and the number of arrests made. On the other hand, the NCVS does a national survey to pinpoint crimes that were not reported to the police for whatever reason. Both reports offer valid ways to get accurate numbers of crimes and even compare past crime rates with today’s crime rates. Though they both have validity, they also have errors that impact

This assignment will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the positive approach to victimology. It will do this by looking at other victimology approaches such as; Radical, feminist, and critical victimology. Analysing the different theories within each approach, to highlight the negatives and positives within the positivist approach to victimology.

1) Victimless crime can be defined as those types of actions and behavior that are illegal, although they do not affect the safety and personal rights of others. Individuals or groups of persons can commit victimless crimes. In cases that involve more than one person, only those capable of consenting to the actions are guilty of this type of crime (Liberal Democratic Party, 2009).

Since the beginning of the regime on criminal law, countries across the world have been focused on the rights of the accused and not those of victim. This is because of the consideration that the accused is alone and the government as well as the societal machinery is running against him.

From the beginning of time there have always been crimes against persons. People went by the saying “An eye for an eye”. You stole from your neighbor, they stole from you. You hurt someone, they hurt you. It wasn’t until the 1940’s people started taking a closer look into these crimes against person, which they later called victimology. This paper will look into victimology and their theories as we go back into the past and how victimology is now.