A victim survey is where people get asked what crimes have happened to them over a particular period of time. This is different from the British Crime Survey (BCS) or the Crime survey for England and Wales (CSEW) -which is an annual victimisation survey that is carried out by the Home Office; it tries to find out about crime that has not been recorded by the police. Both of these types of survey and therefore types of statistics that you can collect, these differ to the statistics produced from the police because of many ways. One example is that the statistics that come from the police just come from reported crime whereas victim surveys come from people’s experience of crime. Another example of how statistics from the police and statistics from victim surveys are different is because not all victims report crime to the police for many reasons and therefore create what’s called “the dark figure” (The number of crimes that go un-reported, we have no idea how big or small this number is).
This would typically include interviewing potential witnesses, determining what happened, and putting the pieces together. On an incident such as the Michael Brown slaying in St. Louis, witnesses couldn’t be taken as seriously as usual simply because of the uproar within the community. Any witness would automatically determine fault to be on the police officer. Investigators may read between the lines, though, often determining what truth is and what lies are. When video released of the Rodney King beating, South Central Los Angeles was
POLICE DRAMA Suzie A. Anderson Everest University Criminal Investigations CJE 1600-16 January 29, 2012 Watch a TV or movie of virtually any police drama, and create a one-page narrative of what actually occurred during the “crime.” Then discuss how different that is from watching or hearing about a crime and then having to write about it, keeping the elements of the crime in mind. To sit down and write a one-page narrative of a police drama that has been depicted on film via a television show or a feature film has been a perplexed chore for me. I have spent some time on this issue trying to find out of the police dramas that are currently being aired that I would have to say that I chose the police drama Law and Order: SVU (Special Victims Unit). As with all the Law and Order television shows it opens with a narrative, “In the criminal justice system, sexual based offenders are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit.
Data is recorded by cities, counties, colleges, and states and submitted to the UCR. The UCR publishes crime in the U.S., an annual summation of the incident and rate of reported crimes. I believe that this particular system is not very effective considering with this system it only records some information when a crime has occurred. With this crime reporting system the
This is the question posed to many journalists when asked to provide the source of their current news story. Many journalists believe that they should be granted immunity when asked to testify in legal proceedings regarding the release of confidential information obtained as news source in one of their written articles. One common case that addresses a journalist being asked to release confidential information pertaining to a news source is the case of Paul Branzburg in 1971, Branzburg v Hayes (Calbert & Pember, 2005). Branzburg was called to testify after writing two news stories regarding a Kentucky drug dealer and drug dealers in the area (Calbert & Pember, 2005). The real question, should journalists be provided immunity under the First Amendment when asked to reveal a news source or should a journalist be held to the same standards as a citizen?
The strengths of the NCVS outweighed the UCR/NIBRS program in measuring domestic violence. Introduction Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) is an annual publication produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that gathers data from law enforcement agencies in the United States on reported crimes and arrests. Because of problems with the UCR program, the government implemented a new and more detailed report called the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) which reports on each incident and arrest. Because the UCR/NIBRS program is solely based on law enforcement agencies reporting data to the FBI, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) relies on the actual victims of a crime regardless if it is reported or not. Both the UCR/NIBRS and NCVS have unique ways in which data is collected and how it is categorized.
Tupac Shakur’s Problems 2 Abstract Im going to tell you and educate you of how many times 2pac went to jail since he had started his career and all the problems that he faced against the law, because other reports that I have read before don’t seem clear to me or very detail oriented on the time Tupac Shakur had been arrested and the reasons why tupac was indeed arrested so I did a little research on this matter to bring you up to speed with the truth behind this arrest and what other
The British Crime Survey also includes crimes which are not reported to the police, therefore is an important alternative to police records and provides criminologists, the police, the courts, the media and anyone else who has an interest with the statistics, two different types of data: Firstly trends on crime over time chartered, Details are compiled from offenders who are eventually found guilty or cautioned; details gathered include sex and the age of the offender. Information is gathered on the “Known offender”, in this case the “Typical offender”, (Maguire 1997). Official crime
The current El Paso Police Department is a prime example. A recent slew of investigations by local news stations in the Sun City revealed several “corrupt” cops who had overstepped their boundaries, or had hidden behind their badge to commit crimes. And sometimes, that “thin blue line”, as one officer called it, can divide an entire community— or even a police force. “There will be corruption everywhere you go, but of course it depends on the city that you are in,” Officer Doe said, as he drove through the city. “We are human too.
If the only reason to pull someone over depends on his or her race, this causes a discriminatory impact. Police departments begun to review data on stops and change police officers behaviors, arguments and attitudes towards the leading of stereotype based discriminatory treatment. (Racial profiling, 2012) This researcher frowns much upon racial profiling but with surveys conducted every day on who is likely to commit a crime, and what age, and what sex, and what minority group then people tend to lean towards these surveys proving that race is a huge part of crime involvement. In conclusion, criminal profiling works as an investigative tool to help solve crimes. Criminal profiling has come a long way and still needs a lot of improvement.