Assignment: 1
Criminal Victimization, 2011
https://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv11.pdf
Assignment: Students will locate and read this report, which is on the Bureau of Justice Statistics website. Then answer the following questions:
1. How does the government determine the rates of criminal victimization?
2. How does the rate of violent criminal victimization in 2011 compare to previous years?
3. How does the rate of property crime victimization compare to previous years?
4. How do victimization rates compare across specific crime categories (such as burglary, assault, intimate partner violence, etc.)?
5. How do rates of victimization vary across demographic categories (e.g., gender, race and age)?
Take your time and read the article. Everything that you need to answer is in the article. Please make sure that you are answering in detail and not just one word statements. We must restate the question and put the answer in your own words. If some of you are going to get Master degrees you must know that quoting a statement verbatim even with quotation marks and giving credit for statement will be considered plagiarism. You have to mix it up by adding some of youron words.
Assignment: 2
Example:
1. Contrast an offense that requires proof of causation with one that does not.
1. What are the chief distinctions between the civil and criminal law? Why do the criminal and civil law sometimes overlap?
2. What is the essential difference between substantive criminal law and procedural criminal law? Can you give examples of each?
3. What means of punishment for criminal offenses exist in your state? Is capital punishment available for persons convicted of first-degree murder? Which punishments, if any, do you think are most effective in controlling crime?