CRM 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Motor Vehicle Theft, National Crime Victimization Survey, White-Collar Crime
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Now, 18,000 agencies provide information on crime to give to the program. With this expansion came the need to create a uniformity in its reports, which meant developing standard definitions of crimes. The ucr program reports on seven major offenses: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. In 1979, an eighth offense, arson, was added to the list. There were many flaws with this program, mainly the fact that many felt that it did not provide an accurate or clear picture of criminality due to more serious offenses being overshadowed by more frequent minor offenses. Because of this, the use of the program was discontinued in 2004 until a solution could be found: in 1988, the national incident-based reporting system was implemented into the. With this addition, the program was no longer summary based but rather incident driven. this new system allows or law enforcement agencies to give detailed date on criminal activity.
