SOCL 3501 Lecture : Data And Methods Notes SOCL 3501
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Larceny theft: motor vehicle theft, burglary ** homes structures and businesses are burglarized, arson, called uniformed because the fbi has set of definitions of how they define these crimes. Laws change state to state but fbi measures from their definitions. Issue: when we hear violent crime is down or up we think of murder when it is less than 1% of the violent offenses. Aggravated assault is the most frequent because it is the least serious offense. Larceny theft accounts to 50-75 percent of offenses: limitations. It is only data of crimes known to police: rape is a serious offense that has low report rate, ucr does not accurately tell some of crime data because of these limitations. It can be triangulated by other data (death certificates: hierarchy rule only most serious offense is recorded.
