CCJS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Voluntary Manslaughter, National Crime Victimization Survey, Motor Vehicle Theft
17 Dec 2015
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Other strategies for gathering data including social surveys, participant observation, case studies, life histories, unobtrusive measures: uniform crime reports . The crime rate is expressed as the number of crimes per unit population, in this. Recorded statistics only a portion of true crime rate. Increase in crime rate beginning in mid-1960s to 1970s resulted due to better communication, recording, and reporting of crimes. Most federal cases, victimless crimes, and white-collar crimes are not contained in the ucr. Beginning in 1977, there was a cal for a major redesign of the ucr. After more than 10 years, this first major revision was accomplished. The major change in the new ucr program was its conversion to a national. The new system uses 52 data elements to describe victims, offenders, arrestees, and circumstances of crimes. The process of selecting a subset of observations from among many possible observations for the purpose of drawing conclusions about the larger set of possible observations a population.
