National Crime Survey

Would you answer honestly if participating in a national crime survey asking about your immoral behavior, including whatever drinking and drug use? Yes I would participate in the survey. I would be honest because I suck nothing to hide and no reason to lie. But for some they dont want good deal to know what crimes they have committed or they lie about the finish of the crimes. But I think its because they want to be seen in a good light.A good term for this is called hearty Desirability Bias which means that you reply in a dash that is socially acceptable and desirable. 1 The main purpose of this study is to allow the participants to portray 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 Incide nt-Based Reporting System) and NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) and published by FBI in their yearly UCR ( Uniform Crime Report. ) In some forms of deviance self-report studies have been proven better than police reports (ex minor offenses among adolescents. ) In a sorting 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