The FBI’s National Incident-Base Reporting System (NIBRS) is a data collection for the Uniform Crime Reporting program (UCR) which provides opportunities for understanding variables associated with criminal activities, and allows agencies to collect and share data on crimes committed. This paper will briefly give an overview of the database system. It will cover the following topics; When did NIBRS start, who uses NIBRS and why is it used, the information the database provides, what is the structure of the NIBRS database and the databases advantages and disadvantages.
NIBRS was created due to increasing demand of the need for the use of the UCR, and the vast of information that was being sent to the UCR from different agencies which the UCR could not handle or organize. In the late 1970’s it was notice that there was a need for a better way to manage the data that was collected by the difference agencies, so when the NIBRS was developed South Carolina’s Law Enforcement Division was selected to be the first unit to test out the workability of this new database system. In 1988 at the UCR conference it was confirmed workable and suitable for the needs of the agencies who used the information and who also needed the information to be implemented in a stronger database.
The NIBRS is used at the local, state and government level. The data is collected from the different levels of agencies as they are implemented by the same law related agencies that use the database. Other then law enforcement agencies, NIBRS are used and can be accessed by the public. The FBI has certified 26 states as participants for testing, developing and implementing, and is constantly growing each year. If anyone is unsure if their state was or is a particip...
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...h could be used to help improve laws, which could help prevent individuals from being temped to committing the crime or even coming up with solutions to avoid the crime from happening period.
The data that can be pulled up under Group B are collection of information that are arrests resulting from the following; bad checks, curfew loitering violations, disorderly conduct, driving under the influence, drunkenness, family offenses, liquor law violation, peeping tom, runaways and trespass of property.
Even thought this system was implemented and has helped with organizing criminal related data, it still needs to have serious structure updates, to make it more efficient and reduce weakness of the database. Other precautions need to be taking as well to prevent missing data in references to criminal activity that has occurred in the past years the NIBRS has been used.
Ana-Mauríne Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt positions the female body as the scene where lives are interconnected across history and as a dissertation of the human condition. Her protagonists, Micaela and Miriam, tell a story of love, struggle, and survival that echoes the historical significance of slavery and the Caribbean middle passage across time and space. Divided into several sections based on time and location, one particular period in Lara’s novel connects Micaela and Miriam’s experiences most closely with slavery as a whole. After a voyage across the Mona Strait as an attempt to escape from the conditions in the Dominican Republic, they find themselves captured, trapped in a brothel, and forced into prostitution. Many parallels can be drawn to interpret Lara’s use of the brothel as a metaphor for the slave ships used to travel across the original Middle Passage, including the comparable use of people as commodities, the specific imagery and language Lara uses, the historical narrative presented at the beginning of each section, and the larger themes in which identities were simultaneously stripped by oppression and also preserved within the context of community and spirituality.
CJ Net is capable of providing a method for participating Criminal Justice Agencies to establish inter-connectivity for data sharing. Using this inter-connectivity, agencies will be able to access information stored in various counties and judicial circuits. Because the CJ Net uses Intranet standards, the software and hardware required may be readily available for acquisition from a wide variety of vendors. Most law enforcement agencies have already identified the need to upgrade their computers for the FCIC II system and made those purchases. However, because the CJ Net is a new and voluntary system, many agencies have not yet identified the benefits that can be derived from this network.
...nd disciplinary information of all licensed RNs and LPN/VNs” (Weber & Ornstein, 2010). Therefore, if all states used this database the disciplinary issues would be reduced.
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In the United States, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, including FBI, Department of Homeland Security, among others, have taken on roles to fight computer crimes and terrorism. The roles and responses of these law enforcement agencies concerning digital crime have created challenges that limit enforcement efforts against digital crime.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, also know as the FBI is an interesting topic. The FBI is the “principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice”, also known as DOJ. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is responsible in collecting facts and giving or writing reports that one has either perceived, investigated or observed. As well as, assembling evidence in cases that involve Federal jurisdiction and assembling evidence. Not to mention, it bestows law enforcement leadership and reinforcement to international and state law enforcement agencies, which enforce the law.
Technology has opened new encounters and opportunities for the criminal justice system. There are so many new practices of criminal activity, such as computer crimes. There are different types of computer crimes that many people become victims of every day. Computer crime is any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target ("Computer Crime: Chapter 2: What Are the Crimes?", n.d.). Crimes such as data diddling, pump and dump, social engineering and spoofing are computer crimes. Even though these crimes are difficult by privacy issues, the new technology has made investigations and prosecutions well organized and effective. Though views are different on the pros and cons of specific technological changes in the criminal justice system, there is an agreement the system has changed affectedly ("Effects of Technology in Criminal Justice | eHow", n.d.).
Helen makes a great point because it wasn’t until a few years ago that technology exploded and began to create all these different forms of databases that can do...
...ifferent crime patterns and thought processes of criminals. The reasons can only come from these theories and will help the justice systems become more prepared to react towards different crimes. However, with adding some enhancements, projects and experiments these two theories have the potential to change the criminology realm forever.
Understanding the similarities and differences in human behavior allows the professionals to individually fit their services to diverse types of people. While some form of profiling has always been a part of criminal investigation, efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to develop and implement a formal and systematic process for crime scene profiling began only as recently as 1978, with the formation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, or BSU, which evolved into the Profiling and Behavioral Assessment Unit (Miller). In the beginning, the process was developed specifically to deal with cases of serial homicide and serial rape.
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