ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Motor Vehicle Theft, Carjacking, Arson
Document Summary
Uniform crime reporting (ucr) program - federal bureau of investigation (fbi) Uniform reporting - fbi developed standardized definitions of offenses and terminologies. Developed crime index - 7 major offenses (+ arson) called part i offenses . Unlike original ucr, ucr/nibrs collects details about crime incident. Replacing part i and part ii offenses with 22 general offenses. Goals: enhance quantity, quality, and timeliness of crime-data collection and improve methods of compiling and analyzing data. Hierarchy rule - only the most serious offense during an episode is included in the statistic. Data retrieved from random survey of households; victim self-reports. Estimates occurrence of all crimes, reported or not. Dark figure of crime - crime not reported to police and remains unknown to officials. In 2016, u. s. residents age 12 or older experienced 5. 7 million violent victimizations - a rate of 21. 1 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older.
