CJ ST 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Crime Victimization Survey, Motor Vehicle Theft, Official Statistics
11 Oct 2016
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Measuring delinquency: historically it has been difficult to measure delinquency, crime is both context and time specific. In other words, behavior is evaluated differently depending on where and when it occurs: the most popular sources of data for estimating delinquency are the uniform crime reports, victimization surveys, and self-reported studies. Uniform crime reports (ucr: collects data from 17,000 city, county, and state law enforcement agencies nationwide, participation in the program by law enforcement agencies is voluntary; roughly 95 percent of. U. s. policing agencies participate: data are published by the federal bureau of investigation (fbi, the ucr includes information on (1) crimes known to the police, (2) number of arrests, (3) persons arrested. Part 1 crimes (index/main crimes): murder, rape, robbery, larceny/theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson. Part 2 crimes: all crimes not mentioned in part 1. Recent developments in the ucr: with the need for more detailed crime statistics the national incident-based reporting.
