Victim and Crime Evaluation Paper

Angela Yang

CJA/354

March 12, 2012

Victims and Crime Evaluation Paper

Rick Rice

All over the world, people are pronged to become victims of an offense against themselves or their property violating them. Most of the time people decided not to report the offense to a police officer for many reasons fear of their lives, embarrassment, loved one hurt him or her, and are not citizens. While not reporting the offense to the police department it only creates more numbers for the National Crime Victimization Survey department to report instead of the Uniform Crime Report that the police department provide at the end of every year. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (www.rkba.org/nra/crime_bill_text) stated: the word victim “means any individual against whom an offense has been committed” and the best term to use for a victim in the criminal system is “crime victim” (Schmalleger, Hall, & Dolatowski, p548 2010).

Means any one can become a victim at any place, time, and needs to be educated on the victim’s assistance programs and victim’s right when an offense occurs to them. Concept of a “Victim” According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) it portraits that male, the poor, racial minorities, and young adults are most likely to be victimized that of others. A victim is “any individual against whom an offense has been committed or for certain procedural purposes, a parent, or legal guardian if a victim is below the age of eighteen years or incompetent, and one or more family members or relatives designated by the court if the victim is deceased or incapacitated” (Schmalleger, Hall, & Dolatowski, p 548 2010).

In every state the definition of victim may be different based on their model penal code. Alaska for example states a victim to be someone who an offense has been perpetrated, a minor, the family of the minor, the person who is...