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| white- collar crime | nonviolent crime for financial gain utilizing deception and committed by anyone who has special technical or professional knowledge of business or government, irrespective of the person’s occupation. |
| violent crime | A UCR/ NIBRS summary offense category that includes murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. |
| aggravated assault | The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened inflicting, of serious injury upon the person of another, felonious |
| transnational organized crime | Unlawful activity undertaken and supported by organized criminal groups operating across national boundaries. |
| terrorism | A violent act or an act dangerous to human life in violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state committed to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives. |
| stalking | Repeated harassing and threatening behavior by one individual against another, aspects of which may be planned or carried out in secret. |
| spam | Unsolicited commercial bulk e- mail ( UCBE), whose primary purpose is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service. |
| software piracy | The unauthorized duplication of software or the illegal transfer of data from one storage medium to another. Software piracy is one of the most prevalent computer crimes in the world. |
| sexual battery | The intentional and wrongful physical contact with a person, without his or her consent, that entails a sexual component or purpose. |
| robbery | The unlawful taking or attempted taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another by force or violence and/ or by putting the victim in fear. |
| rape | Unlawful sexual intercourse achieved through force and without consent. Broadly speaking, the term rape has been applied to a wide variety of sexual attacks and may include same-sex rape and the rape of a male by a female. Some jurisdictions refer to same- sex rape as sexual battery. |
| property crime | A UCR/ NIBRS summary offense category that includes burglary, larceny- theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. |
| Part II offenses | A UCR/ NIBRS offense group used to report arrests for less serious offenses. Agencies are limited to reporting only arrest information for these offenses, with the exception of simple assault. |
| Part I offenses | A UCR/ NIBRS offense group used to report murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson, as defined under the FBI’s UCR/ NIBRS Program. |
| organized crime | The unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods or services, including gambling, prostitution, loan- sharking, narcotics, and labor racketeering, and in other unlawful activities. |
| National Incident- Based Reporting System ( NIBRS) | An incident- based reporting system that collects detailed data on every single crime occurrence. |
| National Crime Victimization Survey ( NCVS) | An annual survey of selected American households conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics to determine the extent of criminal victimization— especially unreported victimization— in the United States. |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics | A U. S. Department of Justice agency responsible for the collection of criminal justice data, including the annual National Crime Victimization Survey. |
| murder | The unlawful killing of a human being. Murder is a generic term that in common usage may include first-and second- degree murder, manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and other similar offenses. |
| motor vehicle theft | The theft or attempted theft of a self- propelled road vehicle that runs on land surface and not on rails. |
| malware | Malicious computer programs such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. |
| larceny- theft | The unlawful taking or attempted taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property, from the possession or constructive possession of another. |
| international terrorism | The unlawful use of force or violence by a group or an individual who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries against people or property in order to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives. |
| identity theft | A crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of information, such as Social Security and driver’s license numbers, to obtain credit, merchandise, and services in the name of the victim. |
| hate crime | A criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/ national origin. |
| forcible rape | The carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will. For statistical- reporting purposes, the FBI defines forcible rape as “ unlawful sexual intercourse with a female, by force and against her will, or without legal or factual consent.” |
| domestic terrorism | The unlawful use of force or violence by a group or an individual who is based and operates entirely within the United States and its territories without foreign direction and whose acts are directed at elements of the U. S. government or population. |
| date rape | The unlawful forced sexual intercourse with a female against her will that occurs within the context of a dating relationship. |
| clearance rate | A traditional measure of investigative effectiveness that compares the number of crimes reported or discovered to the number of crimes solved through arrest or other means ( such as the death of the suspect). |
| Statutory rape | it generally involves nonforcible sexual intercourse with a minor. |
| assault | An unlawful attack by one person upon another, simple |
| burglary | The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft ( excludes tents, trailers, and other mobile units used for recreational purposes). |
| arson | Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, and so on. |
| crime typology | A classification of crimes along a particular dimension, such as legal category, offender motivation, victim behavior, or characteristics of individual offenders. |
| cyberstalking | The use of the Internet, e- mail, and other electronic communication technologies to stalk another person. |
| corporate crime | A violation of a criminal statute 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. |
| organized crime | The unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods or services, including gambling, prostitution, loan- sharking, narcotics, and labor racketeering, and in other unlawful activities. |
| computer virus | A computer program designed to secretly invade systems and either modify the way in which they operate or alter the information they store. |
| software piracy | The unauthorized duplication of software or the illegal transfer of data from one storage medium to another. |
| cyberterrorism | A form of terrorism that makes use of high technology, especially computers and the Internet, in the planning and carrying out of terrorist attacks. |
| dark figure of crime | Crime that is not reported to the police and that remains unknown to officials. |
