CCJ 3024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Incident Based Reporting System, National Crime Victimization Survey, Uniform Crime Reports

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 3024
• Professor: Jihoon Kim

Document Summary

Annual series of us statistical measure of the incident of selected crimes reported by police departments and compiled by the fbi. To create a system for uniformly measuring crime. First effort to create a national, standardized measure of crime. To measure the effectiveness of local law enforcement. Provide law enforcement w data that could be used to help fight crime. Part i offenses (the most serious offenses), constituted the crime index. Part i offenses: homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, Part ii offenses: simple assault, forgery and counterfeiting, fraud, It was discontinued in 2004 since it skewed toward property crimes. Calculated by adding the total part i offenses until 2004. Stats now show property crimes" and violent crimes". Stealing a car------- different qualification theft" ucr v burglary" in. Police report more serious offenses when multiple offenses are committed in one incident. Includes a schematic presentation of index offenses, crime clock": the relative frequency of crimes.