01:202:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clearance Rate, Major Crimes, Carnal Knowledge
30 Oct 2016
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National crime victimization survey (ncvs): an annual survey of selected american households. Uniform crime reporting (ucr) program: a statistical reporting program run by the fbi and publishes crime in the united states annually. Approximately 18,000 law enforcement agencies provide crime information to the program. Original ucr program included a crime index which permitted comparisons over time (crime index are divided into different crimes like murder, theft, kidnap, etc) Violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes: motor vehicle theft, burglary, arson, and larceny-theft. Clearance rate: proportion of reported crimes that have been solved . The national incident-based reporting system (1988-not formally adopted) Incident-driven (details about each criminal incident), not summary-based. Enhance the quantity, quality and timeliness of data collection by law enforcement. Differences between traditional ucr and enhanced ucr/nibrs reporting. Ucr: consists of monthly aggregate crime counts, records one offense per incident, as determined by the hierarchy rule, which suppresses counts of lesser offenses in multiple-offense incidents.
