CRIM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Domestic Violence, Carnal Knowledge, National Crime Victimization Survey
6 Nov 2017
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Development of the ucr program: approximately 18,000 law enforcement agencies provide crime inform. To the program: original ucr program included a crime index which permitted comparisons over time, murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson (added to the index in 1979) Enhanced ucr/nibrs consists of individual incident records for the 8 major crimes and 38 other offenses, with details on offense, victims, offender, and property involved. Records one offense per incident, as determined by the hierarchy rule, which suppresses counts of lesser offenses in multiple-offense incidents. The first shift occurred in the early 1940s: there was a decrease in crime due to the large number of young men who entered military service during wwii. The second shift was between 1060 and the early 1990s: postwar baby boomers reaching crime-prone age, growing professionalization of some police departments resulted in greater and more accurate data collection.
