National Crime Syndicate

Uniform Crime reports, National Incident Based Reporting System and the National Crime Reporting Survey are all major crime reporting systems here in the U.S. Each crime reporting system has its own advantage and disadvantage towards the criminals and victims as well as the law enforcement involved. Each has a unique history on how it started and when, how it became as popular of a system as it is now and will it keep growing or will it one day start to fade into the background while other reporting

to the National Center for Education Statistic's research, over 5 million students who are 12 through 18 old has bullied in a school year in the United States. (Lessne and Yanez) The government has been doing a lot of measures such as enacting the anti-bullying law in each state and opening the website about bullying which runs by the federal government. They also have spent a huge amount of their budget; however, bullying does not show the sign of extinction. Bullying causes the national loss because

The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is consisted of two parts, part one and part two. Part one crimes are the eight most serious offenses, which is murder, rape, assault, robbery, burglary, arson, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Part two crimes are all other crimes except the ones in part one. They also include drug offenses, sex crimes, and vandalism. The UCR is a large database that stores all the information of the crimes that are reported and arrests made each year in the USA. The method used to

Violent crime is an important public health and social behavioral phenomena. Violent crime is referred to as offenses that include force or threat of force. Although many different offenses could fit under this classification, the National Crime Victimization Survey defines nonlethal violence, the current study’s focus, as being comprised of four main offenses -, robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, and forcible rape (National Crime Victimization Survey [NCVS], 2012). Violent victimization

Guns are used for Self-Defense less than 1% of the time Looking at data over a seventeen year time period (1992 through 2005 and 2007 through 2011), there were over 192 million violent crimes committed in the United States. Of those crimes, the victims chose to use a gun as a self-defensive measure to threaten or attack their offender over 1.3 million times. Over this time period, a gun was used as a form of self-defense to threaten or attack an offender 0.7% of the time. Of those 0.7% that used

How do we know about crime? A crime is an action or behavior that is made illegal. What we know about crime comes from what we see and what we hear from our peers and in the media. But how much do we really know about crime? What we see gives us some knowledge of crime. We might be a witness to a crime but this can mislead us because we may not actually witness a crime happening at all. For example, a person may see someone trying to break into a car and report it, when in reality the person locked

Act, national security, internal agency rules, information exempted by another federal statute, trade secrets, internal agency memoranda, personal privacy, investigatory records, and other exemptions. Does the public’s right to know out weigh one’s personal privacy? The personal computer does make privacy difficult. Databases have been created simply to hold ones personal information, and many times these databases can be accessed by any computer-geek. One such database is the National Crime Information

8 Features of Crime There are eight essential factors that are found every crime and therefore make up the legal concept as to what crime is. The eight concepts are actus reus, mens rea, concurrence, causation, harm, legality, necessary attendant circumstances, and punishment. Actus reus means guilty act, or any act that is in violation of the law. This term describes the physical not the mental act of committing a crime.Omission to act is also represented under this act, for example child-neglect

called Uniform Crime Report is a recording system that is provided by the Federal Bureau of investigation and the purpose for the UCR is to help law enforcement agencies to exchange information about reported crime (Meadows. PG 4). The NCVS, also known as National Crime Victimization is another source of victimization data and it also helps law enforcement to collect information about the victim and it tracks the crime of rape, robbery, assault, and larceny crimes. The Uniform Crime Report and the

Theories of Anti-Arab and Anti-Islamic Hate Crime Before and After 9/11 The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 were a triggering event for spikes of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crime in weeks following the events and were so profound that rates of anti-Arab/Islamic hate crime never returned to their pre-9/11 numbers. The media played a large role in the weeks following 9/11 where Arab Americans and Muslims were demonized and profiled as disloyal, anti-American terrorists, perhaps contributing