CRJU 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: National Incident Based Reporting System, National Crime Victimization Survey, Motor Vehicle Theft

• School: USC, SC, Carolina, South Carolina
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJU 323
• Professor: Leslie Wiser

Document Summary

Instrumental in the allocation of funding: data are available on the internet. Crime rates: raw numbers v crime rates, rates have five components, amount of the crime in question, population at risk for that crime, a constant multiplier (e. g. 100,000, location, time span. Issues with respect to non-residents and census undercounts. I(cid:374) outh caroli(cid:374)a, the tate la(cid:449) e(cid:374)for(cid:272)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t di(cid:448)isio(cid:374) (cid:894) led(cid:895) is the state"s (cid:272)oordi(cid:374)ator. Ucr stats: the final numbers are the result of a complex and multi-staged process. Nibrs: abandon the hierarchy rule, ucr uses the hierarchy rule to count only the most serious offense for an incident in which several offenses were committed. National crime victim survey: based on interviews with victims, two steps, screening questions to determine whether the respondent has been a victim within the past four months. If any member of the household has been a victim: uses a nationally representative sample.