In assessing the question “Are official statistics a reliable source of information about crime in Britain?” several factors will be considered: including how the statistics are collected, the divide between males and females in crime statistics, the over representation of ethnic minorities and any problems in looking at the true extent of crime using statistics as an indicator for this. In the United Kingdom statistics are produced by the Home Office, the first crime statistics were published in 1976, and contained crimes recorded by the police. Today these statistics are published annually. These statistics make up the British Crime Survey, which measures the amount of crime in England and Wales by asking people about crimes they have experienced in the last year. 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.
“In a recent survey by the National Center for Victims of Crime, over 1300 victims were asked to rate the importance of various legal rights. Over 80% stated that their ability to make a victim-impact statement at sentencing and at parole was "very important” (NCVC)”. I am assuming all of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances were heard during the defendant’s trial (Champion). The defendant has been convicted of aggravated assault. The only difference between aggravated assault and homicide is that the victim lived (Barkan).
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The information presented below provides an aid to the numerical statement. [pic] This research hypothesis states in 2005, 11,346 persons were killed by firearm violence and 477,040 persons were victims of a crime committed with a firearm. Most murders in the United States are committed with firearms, especially handguns. In 2006, firearms were used in 68 percent of murders, 42 percent of robbery offenses and 22 percent of aggravated assaults nationwide. This allows us to reject the null hypothesis that there is no difference of violence & crime will increase or decrease with stricter gun laws.
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.
Holmes & Holmes (2009, p290) stated “To appraise a crime without some knowledge of the victim is certainly remiss.” The victim constitutes half of the crime therefore victimology should be heavily looked at in order to connect them to the offender (Douglas, Burgess, Burgess, & Ressler, 1992).Victimology is important to an investigation process in that, it is not just learning about the victim’s personal history and personality, but it also why the victim was chosen (Petherick, 2010). Holmes and Holmes (2009,p 291) created a list of elements which should be important to victim profiling it includes: "Physical traits, marital status, personal lifestyle, occupation, education, personal demographics, medical history, psychosexual history, court history, and last activities." A victim’s lifestyle, preferences, family, relationships, and routines, can give investigators clues about potential suspects who had access to the victim (Brown & Davenport, 2012). Other concepts that should be considered when victim profiling are the method of approach, method of attack and risk assessment (Turvey, 1999). Con, surprise, and blitz are three methods of approach that an offender will use to capture his victim.
The type of chart found on the Internet is a pie chart, which shows the portion of the whole. The chart pie chart gives an example of the relationship between the raped and the rapists which 73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger, 38% of perpetrators were a friend or acquaintance of the victim, 28% were an intimate and 7 % were another relative according to RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest, National Network, 2006). This proper chart was presented in this data because these are actually facts of numbers from the victim’s perspectives not from the rapist. The pie chart is within a specific time frame however; the area that is covered is unknown. The pie chart is the best way to display this information for the reason that includes all possibilities and the proportion for this information.
Government agencies use these reports to document crime and do further research on crime in the nation. After a few years of reporting with the first program created, the UCR or Uniform Crime Reporting Program, another program had evolved from that having the FBI designated to coordinate the latest program, NIBRS or the Nation Incident Based Reporting System. With the UCR you could not differentiate between misdemeanor and felony crimes, so the NIBRS was created to gather more in depth and detailed crime data. The NIBRS collects detailed data on every single crime occurrence. Along with those programs came the NCVS or National Crime Victimization Survey, this survey is a self-reporting survey which victims report their own incidents.
The model is generally considered to be statistically strong, however, if I need to account for the remaining 34% of factors contributing to property crime rates in the U.S., further data and evaluation of other possible factors would be necessary. II. Introduction According to the US Department of Justice (2006), property crime includes several criminal offenses such as burglary; car and motorcycle theft, larceny theft and arson. Property crimes involve “taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.” One exception to the basic rule is arson which does not involve the taking of property and does involve force against the victims. The purpose of this case study is to evaluate available data and attempt to determine the variables that contribute the most and address several conceptions and misconceptions about the leading causes of property crimes in the U.S.
Crime Data Comparison Paper Crime is measured by statistics that tell the complete story about the level of crime and victimization used to give insight to creating powerful social tools for policies to be made using criminal data to analyze and evaluate current data that could be used to help fight and reduce the possibility of reoccurring crimes. Crime data is measured from three distinct sources; The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a publication produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigations annually that outlines occurrences and degree of reported crimes throughout the United States. The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is a reporting system that compiles data from agencies of individual crime occurrences