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I need help creating a detailed outline in bullet form that contains information for the following 5 topics:

List Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reported crime statistics relating to rape and the strengths and weaknesses of each type of reporting.
Define the term date rape (or acquaintance rape—the terms are interchangeable) and how date rape (acquaintance rape) is distinguished from stranger rape, statutory rape, and spousal rape.
List the types and uses of date rape drugs.
Describe the victim-offender relationship, including the following:
How victims are viewed by perpetrators of date rape
The special problems of date rape prosecutions
How society and jurors may view date rape (blaming the victim based on the perceived precipitation, facilitation, or provocation of the victim)
What is your position on this issue, and what action do you think would impact this social policy?
Include references and citations for sources used

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839 words on what constitutes date rape, as well as victim options and sociological issues tied to it.

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I need help creating a detailed outline in bullet form that contains information for the following 5 topics:

List Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reported crime statistics relating to rape and the strengths and weaknesses of each type of reporting.

The strengths associated with Uniform Crime Reporting are predicated upon the fact that these statistics are obtained from across the country wherein every police department is required to provide statistics on their reported rapes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation must then compile these to determine the rates of sexual assault as well as data for each city and police department in these cities. In reference to NCVS, these are reported by victims through anonymous surveys wherein the victims report those rapes that weren't reported the police, and these are reported through surveys wherein the victims may be telling the truth or may not be telling the truth, which is what is a downside for NCVS reports. A strength of this type of reporting is predicated upon the fact that these reports assist in the "dark" statistics associated with UCR, which are crimes that aren't reported to police representing a large figure in regard to the ...

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