Another group included 40 sex offenders, who induced crimes such as rape, paedophilia and sexual assaults. Their mean age varied from 41 for the paedophiles down to 28 for the other assaults. The last group of 20 had committed property offences involving theft and burglary, their mean age was 29. The procedure involved the use of the ‘Blame Attribution Inventory’, this measured the offender’s type of offence and attribution of blame in three aspects: internal/external, mental element and guilt. The results exposed the sex offenders as feeling the most guilt with a mean score of 12.7, and the violent criminals followed with a score of 8.1.
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).
Yes, an individual should be punished for their crimes but the effects of a felony conviction should not include or affect that person’s right to vote, finding employment, or the pursuance of a higher education. According to Olivares, Burton, and Cullen (1996) upon release these offenders also deal with stigmas, loss of job opportunities, friendships, family relationships, and denial of civil rights. When it comes to the loss of job opportunities, a recent study has shown that most employers have hired at least one person with a felony conviction (Sawnson, Langfitt-Reese & Bond, 2012). Employers encourage job seekers with criminal records to be honest and willing to discuss their involvement with the justice system. Most employers did not have strict policies concerning hiring criminals and this is a plus.
Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. Name two examples of capital crimes. * The murder of a police officer * Sexual abuse of a minor 2. Name two examples of federal crimes. * Driving while under the influence * Robbing a bank 3.
Violent crimes are personal crimes that include forcible rape, murder, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, arson, motor vehicle theft, and larceny-theft. The second category offers information for crimes that are less serious such as vandalism, DUI’s, public drunkenness, gambling, embezzlement, prostitution, and simple assault. Two metropolitan areas that utilize the FBI Uniform Crime Report data are Detroit and Chicago informs the public about the levels and trends of criminal victimization in these areas. Detroit is listed as number six on the most 100 dangerous areas to reside in the United States. (Neighborhood Scout).
Crime Statistics “Crime statistics is an attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.” Unfortunately, because some crime is secretive, some unknown because they are never reported, therefore the results become very inaccurate. There are several ways on how these statistics are received, such as, hospital of insurance records, household surveys, and reports for several law enforcement agencies. Many countries gather their statistical crime information and it becomes of interest to international organizations such as, Interpol and the United Nations. Places like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Home Office in England & Whales, are the agencies that publish these crime statistics and compile the statistics based on the different crimes that have been reported. Statistics are usually collected on based on three categories: Offenses, the breach of law; Offenders, those who commit the offenses; and the victims, the ones who are offended against.
Running head: JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 1 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper CJA/374 JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS PAPER 2 Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper Introduction Juvenile crime statistics is truly misunderstood by today’s society. The general public pushes for harsher punishment when in reality juvenile crime rate has actually decreased. This paper will summarize the “Juvenile Arrests 2008”. This paper will further discuss the overall decrease in juvenile arrests, the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults, implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities, an increase in juvenile female arrests and a decrease in arrests for juvenile male offenders for violent crimes, as well as what assessment are used to track juvenile arrests in order to measure the amount of juvenile crime as well as its trends. The Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests Overall Review Data from 2008 shows that juvenile arrests for violent crime declined between 2006 and 2008.
The data of this Bulletin is too congested. There are categories with sub-categories, and those sub-categories have sub-categories i.e., percentages of murder victims under the age of 15 and 13 and 5, percentages of victims killed with firearms, percentages of loiterers, runaways, those ignoring curfews. How can a clear understanding of the status of juvenile delinquency of 2008 be easily achieved by “john q public” or, for that matter, law enforcement? In other words, the Bulletin is not reader-friendly. Also, without the inclusion of rehabilitation programs offered in 2008 with their successes and failures, the reader sees only part of the “big picture”.
The 15 marker for crime was by far the one that threw everyone off, including myself. "Explain the tension between community interests and individual rights and freedoms within the criminal justice system." My argument was a little weak but I talked about; -police powers and their investigation process - also how inadmissible evidence of DNA could hinder ones freedoms (I used a statistic) and also how police may abuse their discretionary powers - eg. keep the accused in interrogation for more than 4 hrs without the court-approved extension of 8 hrs -also the criminal trial process - the perceived success of the adversary system where both parties present their oral arguments - but still the fact that the individual is deprived of inequity of distribution of skills, resources and knowledges - I underpinned my contemporary case R v.
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