Types of Crimes and Victims Quiz

Crime Motivations and Types

• Most hate crimes are motivated by racial hatred.

Transnational Organized Crime

• Unlawful activity committed by organized criminal groups that operate across national boundaries is known as transnational organized crime.

Flash Robs

• Flash robs are events where social media directs people to go to retail stores and rob them.

Victimization

• The elderly are more likely than younger people to be victimized by strangers.

Computer Crime

• Phishing is a form of computer crime.

NIBRS and UCR

• For a study examining multiple crimes that occur within a single incident, NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System) is the preferred data source over UCR (Uniform Crime Reports).

Terrorism

• Foreign terrorism only includes acts of terrorism that occur outside the United States.

Identity Theft

• Shoulder surfing and dumpster diving are techniques used to commit identity theft.

Crime Index and UCR

• The main reason the Crime Index is no longer included in the UCR is that there are so many larcenies that this crime overshadows more serious index crimes.

Crime Classification

• A classification of crimes along a particular dimension, such as legal categories, offender motivation, victim behavior, or the characteristics of individual offenders, is known as a crime typology.

National Crime Statistics

• For national crime statistics and data on crimes reported to the police, the UCR is the preferred source of data.