National Crime Survey

Would you answer honestly if participating in a national villainy survey asking about your reprehensible behavior, including any drinking and drug use? Yes I would participate in the survey. I would be honest because I have nothing to hide and no reason to lie. But for some they dont want people to know what crimes they have committed or they lie about the extent of the crimes. But I think its because they want to be seen in a effectual light.A good term for this is called Social Desirability Bias which means that you reply in a manner that is socially acceptable and desirable. 1 The main purpose of this study is to pass on the participants to describe the crimes in their own words instead of implying from observing participants. 2 Honesty in these self-report studies help many different groups to better understand crime and criminal behavior. They use these reports to gather information to put them into statistics.The reports that are used are collected from the NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System) and NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) and published by FBI in their each year UCR ( Uniform Crime Report. ) In some forms of deviance self-report studies have been prove better than police reports (ex minor offenses among adolescents. ) In a variety of social-psychological studies these reports have been proven very useful (ex monitoring of subjective feelings or states is at issue) 3 Dishonesty in these repo