CRJ 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Philadelphia Police Department, Uniform Crime Reports, Motor Vehicle Theft
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Chapter 5: crime statistics (sources/methods of counting crime): Three distinct approaches for counting crime and its characteristics: (1) the use of official crime statistics compiled by police departments. Is divided into part 1 offenses and part 2 offenses. Part 1 offenses are the primary focus in the ucr data. Part 1 offenses include the following offenses: violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, ag- gravated assaults) and property crimes (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson). Racial differences blacks are over-represented in arrests for violent crime and, to a lesser extent, property crimes blacks make up about 12% of the u. s. population, but far exceed their population pro- portion in arrests. Lapd recorded aggravated assaults in cases of domestic violence as domestic as- saults , instead of aggravated assaults. The philadelphia police department counted rapes as trespasses or investigations . Atlanta downgraded numerous part 1 and part 2 offenses to improve their image fro the.
