Criminal Justice Chapter 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aggravated Assault | The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened inflicting, of serious injury upon the person of another. |
| Arson | Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another and so on. |
| Assault | An unlawful attack by one person upon another. |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics | A U.S department of justice agency responsible for the collection of criminal justice data including the annual National Crime Victimization Survey. |
| Burglary | The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft . |
| Clearance Rate | A traditional measure of investigative effectiveness that compares the number of crimes solved through arrest or other means (such as the death of the suspect). |
| Corporate Crime | A violation of a criminal statute by a corporate entity or by its executives, employees, or agents acting on behalf of and for the benefit pf the corporation, partnership, or other form of business entity. |
| Crime Index | A measure of the UCR programs violent and property crime categories, or what are called Part 1 offenses. |
| Crime typology | A classification of crimes along a particular dimension, such as legal categories, offender motivation, victim behavior, or the characteristics of individual offenders. |
| Cybercrime | Any crime perpetrated through the use of computer technology. |
| Cyberstalking | The use of the internet, e-mail, and other electronic communication technologies to stalk another person. |
| Dark figure of crime | Crime that is not reported to the police and that remains unknown to officials. |
| Date rape | Unlawful forced sexual intercourse with a female against her will that occurs within the context of a dating relationship. |
| Forcible rape | The carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will. |
| Hate crime | A criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole of in part, by the offender's bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin. |
| Identity Theft | A crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of information, such as social security and driver's license numbers, to obtain credit, merchandise, and services in the name of the victim. |
| Larceny-theft | A crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of information, such as social security and driver's license numbers, to obtain credit, merchandise, and services in the name of the victim. |
| Motor vehicle theft | The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle |
| Murder | The unlawful killing of a human being. |
| National crime victimization survey | An annual survey of selected American households conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics to determine the extent of criminal victimization-especially unreported victimization- in the united states. |
| National Incident-Based Reporting System | An indictment-based reporting system that collects detailed data on every single crime occurrence. |
| Organized crime | The unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods or services. |
| Part 1 offenses | A UCR/NIBRS offense group used to report murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson, as defined under the FBI's UCR/NIBRS program |
| Part 2 offenses | A UCR/NIBRS offense group used to report arrests for less serious offenses. |
| Property Crime | A UCR/NIBRS summary offense category that includes burglary, larceny-theft motor vehicle theft, and arson. |
| Rape | Unlawful sexual intercourse achieved through force without consent. |
| Robbery | The unlawful taking or attempted taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another by force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear. |
| Sexual Battery | Intentional and wrongful physical contact with a person, without his or her consent, that entails a sexual component or purpose. |
| Stalking | Repeated harassing and threatening behavior by one individual against another, aspects of which may be planned or carried out in a secret. |
| Transnational organized crime | Unlawful activity undertaken and supported by organized criminal groups operating across national boundaries. |
| Uniform Crime Reporting Program | A statistical reporting program ran by the FBI's criminal justice informational services division. |
| Violent Crime | A UCR/NIBRS summary offense category that includes burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. |
| White-collar crime | Violations of the criminal law committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his or her occupation. |
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