Question: What is a visible crime?

Answer: Often called street crime or ordinary crime, this type of crime is committed against persons or property, committed primarily by members of the lower class

Question: What are the types of visible crime?

Answer: Violent crime, Property crime, and Public Order crime

Question: What is violent crime?

Answer: Violent crime is a type of visible crime that involves acts of violence, death, or physical injury, i.e. homicide, rape, assault, etc.

Question: What is a property crime?

Answer: Property crime is a type of visible crime that involves acts that threaten property held by individuals or by the state, i.e. theft, larceny, shoplifting, embezzlement, burglary, etc.

Question: What is public order crime?

Answer: Public order crime is a type of visible crime that involves acts that threaten the general well being of society and challenges accepted moral principles are defined as public order crimes, i.e. public drunkenness, panhandling aggressively, vandalism, disorderly conduct, etc.

Question: What demographic usually carries out visible crime?

Answer: young men

Question: What is occupational crime?

Answer: Occupational crime includes criminal offenses committed through opportunities created in a legal business or occupation

Question: What is organized crime?

Answer: Organized crime is a framework for perpetuation of criminal acts, usually in fields such as gambling, drugs, and prostitution, providing illegal services that are in high demand. Few offenders are arrested and prosecuted

Question: What is a victimless crime?

Answer: A victimless crime is an offense involving a willing and private exchange of illegal goods or services that are in strong demand. Participants do not feel that they are being harmed, but these crimes are prosecuted on the ground that society as a whole is being injured

Question: What is political crime?

Answer: Political crime is an act that is usually done for ideological purposes. It constitutes a threat against the state, i.e. treason, sedition or espionage

Question: What is the dark figure of crime?

Answer: The dark figure of crime is a metaphor for the crimes that are never reported to police

Question: What is a Uniform Crime Report? (UCR)

Answer: A UCR is an annually published statistical summary of crimes reported to the police, based on voluntary reports to the FBI by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies

Question: What is a National Incident-Based Reporting System? (NIBRS)?

Answer: NIBRS is a reporting system in which the police describe each offense in a crime incident, together with data describing the offender, victim, and property

Question: What is the National Crime Victimization Survey? (NCVS)

Answer: NCVS is comprised of interviews of samples of the US population conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics to determine the number/types of criminal victimization and thus the extent of unreported as well as reported crimes

Question: What is victimology?

Answer: Victimology is a field of criminology that examines the role the victim plays in precipitating a criminal incident and also examines the impact of crimes on victims