CCJ 3024 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Thorsten Sellin, National Incident Based Reporting System, Uniform Crime Reports

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

Document Summary

A summation of class lecture notes & text readings. Crime measurement: official crime measures, uniform crime reports by the fbi, corrections system reports, self-report surveys, ask people to admit to their own mistakes, victimization surveys. Index: part i (personal felonies, property felonies: crimes known to the police, arrest information, crimes cleared by arrest or clearance rates (about 20%); have been low for a long time. Non index: part ii (everything else except traffic crimes: arrest information. Ways of expressing ucr data: raw counts (the best way to standardize is on a population base) Weaknesses: all of the same for the ucrs except there is more information to the nibrs. Draw a sample and ask people about their criminal behavior. Weaknesses: sampling, limited range of offenses, accuracy. Monitoring the future study indicates the number of people who break the law is far greater than the number projected by official statistics.