dark figure of crime. Crime that is not reported to the police and that remains unknown to officials. crime typology. A classification of crimes along a particular dimension, such as legal categories, offender motivation, victim behavior, or the characteristics of individual offenders.
The UCR program publishes crime in the United States, which provides an annual summation of the incidence and rate of reported crimes throughout the United States. NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey)
corporate crime. A violation of a criminal statue by a corporate entity or by its executives, employees, or agents acting on behalf of and for the benefit of the corporation, partnership, or other form of business entity. white collar crime.
A violation of a criminal statue by a corporate entity or by its executives, employees, or agents acting on behalf of and for the benefit of the corporation, partnership, or other form of business entity. white collar crime. Financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals.
organized crime. The work of a group that regulates relations among criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities, including prostitution, gambling, and the smuggling and sale of illegal drugs. transnational organized crime.
The FBI's UCR program is a statistical reporting program run by the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) division. The UCR program began in 1930 when Congress authorized the U.S. attorney general to survey crime in America, and the FBI was designated to implement the program.
NIBRS is an incident-based reporting system that collects data on every single crime occurrence. NIBRS data are replacing the kinds of summary data that have been traditionally been provided by the FBI's UCR program. The NIBRS program began in 1988, the new UCR/NIBRS gathers many details about each criminal incident.