01:202:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carnal Knowledge, National Incident Based Reporting System, National Crime Victimization Survey
31 Jan 2017
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National incident based reporting system: development initiated in 1988, a significant redesign of the original ucr program (uniform crime report) Incident driven, not summary based: gathers many details about each criminal incident, has to give monthly report about how many murders they had for (ucr) Uniform crime reporting program (ucr: a statistical reporting program run by the fbi and publishes crime in the us annually. An annual survey of selected american households. Violent crimes (also called personal crimes) include murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, burglary, arson, and larceny-theft. Clearance rate: proportion of reported crimes that have been solved , exceptionally cleared. Someone killed someone, but then killed themselves: know who did the crime, but didn"t arrest and charge that person. Murder: unlawful killing of a human being, smallest numerical category in part i offenses, firearms are the weapons most often used, offender is usually at least an acquaintance.
