CCJ-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Murder 2, Burglary, United States Census Bureau
2 Feb 2018
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Measure it by the crime rate raw number of crimes divided by 10. Crime is typically is reported as a rate ; what we call a crime rate. There are three main ways crime is measured in the united states: official statistics, self-report survey, victimization survey, official statistics. The earliest form of data collection on the amount and types of crime was official crime statistics. The most widely known and commonly used official measures of crime come from the. International association of the chiefs of police (1930: complies crime from 18,000 jurisdictions each year, voluntary reporting. Ucr breaks these crime into two groups part i offenses and part ii: there are 8 part i offenses. These are the most serious crimes (we will define later: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, mv theft, arson. Benefits of the ucr: gives national picture of crime. Not all crimes are reported to the police.
