CCJ-3011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: United States Census Bureau, Burglary, Motor Vehicle Theft
20 Dec 2016
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Police statistics or the uniform crime reports (ucr) Only includes 8 most serious offenses/index crimes. Crime rate = number of reported crimes x 100,000. Disadvantages of official data (cid:498)dark figure of crime(cid:499) Police are more likely to arrest certain groups of people, regardless of their offenses. Some states do not sent reports to the fbi. The gap between the actual amount of crime committed and the amount of crime reported in the ucr. Data are collected by the justice department and the us census bureau. Includes crimes reported and unreported to the police. Capture some of the (cid:498)dark figure of crime(cid:499) Does not capture many types of crimes. Can get at the social-psychological causes of crime and delinquency. A variable that is related to crime in a statistical sense. Correlation shows up in all types of data. Violent crimes peaks in the late teens and early 20s. Males are more likely than females to violate the law.
