Southern New Hampshire University PSY 310 Criminal Data Worksheet Instructions: Respond to PART I and PART II below and then resubmit this worksheet with your responses. PART I Instructions: Respond to the questions below. 1. Review the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) website. What type of criminal data can you gather from this website? The type of criminal data that can be gathered from this website is the statistics or data of crimes such as hate crimes, homicide data, property crimes, arrests, rape, robbery, and even fraud crimes along with all other types of crimes. You can look at the national data or you can click each state. 2. Using the Criminal Data Guide document as a guide, what do you notice about the information that you should ask about? Where should you look for this information? Reading the crime data guide, you should know everything about the individual from their race, address, criminal history. You should also know collateral information such as school information, medical records, mental health information to biological and environmental information. You can collect all this information from the perpetrator's medical records, family, school records, social media, friends, arrest records, BMV record, or phone records etc. 3. Is there a typical profile for terrorists? Explain. No, there is not a typical profile for terrorists. While most people see a terrorist as a male from the middle east this is not always the case. A terrorist can be any race or gender. With domestic terrorism "they are often citizens of the countries in which they reside, they blend into the general population" (Bartol & Bartol, 2020). PART II Instructions: Read through the scenario and respond to the questions below.
Southern New Hampshire University Lisa is accused of luring a group of men into a park where a criminal street gang attacks them. She is also a gang member, and this is part of her initiation. She had a strict upbringing and was physically abused by her older brother and father growing up. At age 13, she befriended some gang members who let her hang around with them. She started skipping school and committing petty crimes such as theft and burglary. Her gang got into a fight with a rival gang, and she was injured, requiring stitches and x-rays. A police report was filed, although no charges were brought against her. Using the Criminal Data Guide document as a guide, respond to the following: 1. What pieces of information are important for you to gather specifically from the scenario above? The pieces of information that are important would-be information about Lisa's childhood, the gang that she is in, the men she lured, the rival gang, police and court records, Lisa's age, and race. Where she lives would also be important information, and Lisa's past crimes. 2. Thinking creatively, where would you gather the information to start work on your case in reference to the scenario above? You may use a bulleted list to demonstrate specific points you would need.