Uniform crime reporting (UCR) program:

 A statistical reporting program run by the FBI’s criminal Justice information services (CJIS) division. The UCR program publishes crime in the United States, which provides an annual summation of the incidence and rate of reported crimes throughout the United States.

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 on purported victimization—in the United States.

 Bureau of Justice statistics (BJS):

A U.S. department of justice agency responsible for the collection of criminal Justice data, Including the annual national crime victimization survey.

 A now-defunct but once-inclusive measure of the UCR program’s violent and property crime categories, or what are called part one offenses.  The crime index, long featured in the FB’s publication Crime in the United States, was discontinued in 2004.The index had been intended as a tool for Geographic (state-to-state) and historical (year-to-year) comparisons via the use of crime rates (the number of crimes per unit of population). However criticism that the index was misleading arose after researchers found that the largest of the index’s crime category, larceny-theft, weight and led to an underrepresentation of change in the rates of more violent and serious crimes.

National incident-based reporting system (NIBRS):

An incident-based reporting system that collects detailed data on every single crime occurrence. NIBRS data are replacing the kinds of summary data of that have traditionally been provided by the FBI’s uniform crime reporting program.

Violent crime:

A USC/NIBRS summary offense category that includes murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Property crime:

 A USC/NIBRS summary offense category that includes burglary larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

Clearance rate:

 Up a traditional measure of investigative effectiveness that compares the number of crimes reported or discovered to the number of crimes solved through a rest or other means (such as the death of the suspect).

The unlawful killing if a human being. A murder is a generic term that is common usage making food first and second-degree murder, the manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and other similar offenses.

 A USC/NIBRS offensive group used to report murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson, as defined under the FBI’s USC/NIBRS Program.

Rape:

Unlawful sexual intercourse achieved through force and with 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 as battery.

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.” Statutory rape differs from forcible rape in that it generally involves non-forcible sexual intercourse with a minor.

Sexual battery:

 The intentional and wrongful physical contact with the person, without his or her consent, that entails sexual component or purpose.

 The unlawful forced sexual intercourse with a female against her will that occurs within the context of a dating relationship. And date rape or a acquaintance  rape, is a subcategory of rate that is of special concern today. 

Robbery (UCR/NIBRS)

 The unlawful taking or attempted taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another By force or violence and or putting the victim in fear. Armed robbery differs from unarmed, or strong our, robbery in that it involves a weapon contrary to popular conceptions, highway robbery does not necessarily occur on a street—and rarely in a vehicle. The term highway robbery applies to any form of robbery that occurs outdoors in a public place.

Assault (UCR/NIBRS):

 An unlawful attack by one person upon another. Historically assault meant only the attempt to inflict injury on another person; a completed act constituted the separate offense of battery. Under modern statistical usage, however, attempted and completed acts are grouped together under the generic term assault. 

The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened inflicting, of serious injury upon the person of another.  While aggravated assault and simple assault are standard terms for purposes, most state codes use labels like first-degree and second-degree to make such distinctions. 

Burglary (UCR/NIBRS):

The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or affect (excludes tents, trailers, and other mobile units used for recreational purposes). Under the UCR/NIBRS program, the crime of burglary can be reported if 1. An unlawful entry of an unlocked structure has occurred, 2. A breaking and entering (of security a structure) has taken place, or 3. A burglary has been attempted.

Identity theft:

A crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of information, such as Social Security and drivers license numbers, to obtain credit, merchandise, and services in the name of the victim. The victim is often left with road credit history and the time consuming and come located task of repairing the financial damage.

Larceny-theft (UCR/NIBRS):

The unlawful taking or attempted taking, tearing, leading, or riding away of property, from the possession or constructive possession of another. Motor vehicles are excluded. Larceny is the most common of the eight major offenses although probably only a small percentage of all larcenies is actually reported the police because of the small dollar amount involved.

Motor vehicle theft (UCR/NIBRS):

The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. Motor vehicle is defined as a self-propelled road vehicle that runs on land surface and not on rails. The stealing of trains, planes, boats, construction equipment, and most farm machinery is classified as larceny under the UCR/NIBRS program, not as motor vehicle theft.

Arson (UCR/NIBRS):

Any willful or miscellaneous 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. Some instances of arson result from miscellaneous mischief, some involve attends to claim insurance money, and some are committed in an effort to disguise other crimes, such as murder, burglary, or larceny.

Part II offense:

A UCR/NIBRS offense group used to report arrest for less serious offenses. Agencies are limited to reporting the arrest information for part II offenses, with the exception of simple assault.

Dark figure of crime:

Crime that is not reported to the police and that remains unknown to officials.

Crime typology:

A classification of crime along a particular dimension, such as legal category, offender motivation, victim behavior, or characteristics of individual offenders.

Stalking:

Repeated harassing and threatening behavior by one individual against another, aspects of which may be planned or carried out in secret. Stocking might involve following a person, appearing at a person's home or place of business, making harassing phone calls, leaving her in messages or objects, or vandalizing a person's property. Most stalking laws require that the perpetrator make a credible threat of violence against the victim or member of the victim’s immediate damage.

Cyberstalking:

The use of the Internet, e-mail, and other electronic communication technologies to stop another person.

Hate crime (UCR/NIBRS):

a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offenders biased against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.

Corporate crime:

A violation of a criminal statute by a corporate entity or by its executives, employees, or against acting on behalf of and for the benefit of the corporation, partnership, or other form of business entity.

White-collar crime:

Violations of the criminal law committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his or her occupation. Also, 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.

The unlawful activities of the members of highly organized disciplined associations engaged in supplying illegal goods for services, including gambling, prostitution, loansharking, narcotics, and labor racketeering, and in other unlawful activities.

Transnational organized crime:

Unlawful activity undertaken and supported by organized criminal groups operating cross-national boundaries.

Malicious computer programs such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses.

Any crime perpetrated through the use of computer technology. Also, any violation of federal or state computer crime statute. Also called cybercrime.

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. Viruses are disruptive software programs that may effectively vandalize computers of all types and sizes.

the unauthorized duplication of software or illegal transfer of data from one storage medium to another. Software piracy is one of the most prevalent computer crimes in the world.

Unsolicited commercial bulk e-mail (UCBE), whose primary purpose is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product of service

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, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.