Class Activity 9/15

9/15

Fav movies/shows:

1. Criminal Minds
2. How to get away with murder
3. White Collar
4. NCIS
5. Extremely wicked shockingly evil and vile
6. Tiger King
7. Ted Bundy tapes
8. Psych
9. Hawaii 5 O
10. Blacklist
11. Queen of the South

Podcast:

Crime junkie

Anatomy of Murder

Ideas about crime portrayed:

• Motive
• Evidence
• Forensic Analysis
• Hostage negotiation
• Criminal sentencing
• Victims/families
• romanticize/glamorize the criminals
• Police vs criminal 

Perceptions about crime:

• Behavioral analysis- thinking from the criminals point of view
• Desensitize us
• You meet a ton of criminals in your life

5 facts that seem real:

1. A psycopath/murderer can be anyone
2. Life experiences affect an individual’s thought process
3. Innocent people are usually harmed emotionally or physically when a crime is committed
4. Not every case is what it seems. There’s always more than meets the eye.
5. Police officers and federal agents are regularly exposed to extreme tragedies 

Questions 9/15

What is the Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?

Uniform Crime Reports (UCR): information collected by local police departments and forwarded to the FBI.

What are index crimes/ non-index crimes?

Index Crimes:

illegal acts that are really serious.

Eight Index crimes:

1. Criminal homicide
2. Forcible rape
3. Robbery
4. Aggravated assault
5. Burglary
6. Larceny-theft
7. Motor vehicle theft
8. Arson

Non-index crimes:

white collar crimes/anything not listed above

What crimes are excluded from Index offenses?

kidnapping, embezzlement, corporate fraud, and white collar crimes

What is the dark figure of crime?

The police were only being informed about a small fraction of crime.

What do SRD and NCVS stand for, and how do these approaches address the dark figure?

SRD: self-report data

NCVS: National Crime Victimization Survey: people who have been affected by crimes

What are some examples of major trends that are observed in UCR, SRD, NCVS data?

UCR: crime increased from 1960 through 1990 and has been declining since 1991, 95 percent of the U.S. population

NCVS: national probability sample of persons over the age of 12, relative stability and even a decline since 1973

NRD: relative stability and even a decline since 1973