CCJ-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Crime Victimization Survey, Motor Vehicle Theft, Uniform Crime Reports
13 Nov 2017
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Crime rates are important because they should, in theory, guide criminal justice policies. There are three main ways crime is measured in the united states: official statistics (ucr) (nibrs, victimization surveys (ncvs, self-report surveys, official statistics. Ucr reports on two types of offenses: part i, part ii drug offenses, driving under influence, simple assault, and many more that aren"t part i. Part 1 offenses: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson. It provides a national picture of crime (because although not all jurisdictions send in their crime information--a lot do) * information derived from the section part i offenses (p. 40) Table 2-2: major crimes known to the police, 2014 (ucr/nibrs part i offenses) (p. 40) Because of the limitations of the ucr, the fbi developed the national incident based. National incident based reporting system: developed in 1988, administered by the fbi, fixed some of the issues of the ucr.
