...What are Uniform Crime Reports? What are Uniform Crime Reports Frank J. Schmalleger (2009, p. 38) writes in Criminology Today:An Integrative Introduction that the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are, “A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) summation of crime statistics tallied annually and consisting primarily of data on crmes reported to the police and on arrests”. There are eight major offenses, called Part I offenses, reported on in the UCR and compared against the United States (U.S.) population in various regions. The UCR is used to compare crime rates that occur in different regions and from one year to the next. Another benefit to the UCR is that they show major changes in crime rates through the years. The FBI has compiled these reports since 1929, which created a standard through which all crimes throughout the country are reported. The UCR is published yearly and is available to all law enforcement agencies and accessible to all citizens via the Internet. “Rates of crime under the UCR/NIBRS Program are generally expressed as “x number of offenses per 100,000 people in the U.S. population” (Schmalleger, F., 2009, p. 39). The eight major offense categories reported on in the UCR are murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The crime of murder is the first statistic reported in the UCR and should not be confused with homicide. Murder is, “…an unlawful homicide” and homicide is, “…the willful killing...
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...information on the crime data sources available for different countries and the United States. Which of the following crime data sources provides the clearest and most helpful information, and why? Uniform Crime Report (UCR)- is a program administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the United States. This report collects data from law enforcement agencies across the country. Not all crimes are reported to law enforcement agencies and this report only captures crimes that are reported to law enforcement agencies which emphasizes arrests and clearance rates. It does provide official crime statistics based on crimes that are reported to law enforcement, which include violent crimes and property crimes. This report...
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...The three major reporting systems used by law enforcement agencies were the old Uniform Crime Report (UCR), the new redesigned UCR called the National Incident-Based Report System (NIBRS), and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) implemented the Uniform Crime Report in 1930; its purpose was to create a national system of uniform crime statistics. As time went by, the UCR was deemed too broad and overgeneralized so it was altered and improved upon to include specific details about each incidents on a city, county, state, and federal levels to become the NIBRS. The National Crime Victimization Survey was first conducted in 1972 using victim self-reports as an effort to uncover crimes that were...
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...The activities of organized crime include ___________. 2. Question : A measure of the average change in prices of all types of consumer goods and services is called ________________. 3. Question : The survey that asks victims about the crimes committed against them is called ________. 4. Question : The Uniform Crime Report is published annually by the _____________. 5. Question : Rainwater’s concept of the “expressive strategy” involves ___________. 6. Question : Ways of living that enable people to adapt to their punishing, depriving reality are called _________. 7. Question : An influential factor in creating an awareness of the problem of poverty was a book entitled _______________. 8. Question : The concept of “routine activities approach to crime” was developed by _____________. 9. Question : In 2007, approximately how many rapes were reported to the FBI? 10. Question : Historian Herbert Butterfield suggested that a society can be destroyed by crimes involving ______________. SOC 402 Week 2 Quiz Purchase here http://chosecourses.com/soc-402-week-2-quiz Description Grade Details 1. Question : The activities of organized crime include ___________. 2. Question : A measure of the average change in prices of all types of consumer goods and services is called ________________. 3. Question : The survey that asks victims about the crimes committed against them is called...
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...In the article Victims and Offenders in Two Crime Statistics Programs: A Comparison of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), (herein after NCVS and NIBRS will be called “systems” when referencing the statistics of the nature of the crimes), the comparison of the two reporting systems for crimes are similar. These two reporting systems are a visual representation of the crimes that are reported. They do not account for crimes that are not reporting or crimes that are reported after the date. They report crime only when there is an official report, such as one by the officer that comes to the scene of the crime to take statements from the individuals. NCVS and NIBRS are only report burglary, larceny, aggravated assault, and vehicle theft. They do not report on more serious crimes such as rape or murder. Every report was different for males and females. Males where committing more crimes than female in every category mentioned above for offenders. Aggravated assault victims had more male than female. The crimes where committed against males more than females. This was reported by both systems noting that males where victimized more than females. Robbery was the same way noting that males were victimized more than females. Larceny and vehicle theft on both systems display white people has have being the must victimized out the other races. This includes white males and white females. This is broke down to head of...
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...term in your own words below. Juvenile accountability is when a young person takes responsibility for their own actions. Risk Factors for Chronic Offenders What are some of the risk factors associated with chronic offenders? Include at least six examples below. Some of the risk factors associated with chronic offenders are: Gender, neighborhood conditions, family, social influences such as friends, psychological issues, and individual characteristics. UCR and Self-Report Data Complete the matrix below. To complete this matrix, list two pros and two cons of Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data and two pros and two cons of self-report data. |Statistical Information |Pros |Cons | |Official Information: | | | |Uniform Crime Report (UCR)|Most widely used source of national crime and |The number of arrests and people arrested are not the | | |delinquency. |same. | | |Compiled from statistics sent to the FBI from |The number of teenage arrests is not the same as the | | |more than 17 thousaind police departments. |actual numbers of delinquent acts done by youths. | | ...
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...a gatekeeper: funding, resources, knowledge, success. Terms: No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, credentialism, Output efficiency: How many people can u graduate standardized testing, grassroots, astroturf, business model, quality education, tracking, Ability grouping: also called tracking standardized testing Rodriguez v. San Antonio: says that quality education is not guaranteed by the us constitution only a desk Property tax: taxes on residential and commercial property in a school district to fund the school, Foundations: A way to funnel private money into a school The Houston Miracle: the basis for no student left behind, ended up being a lie 2. Crime and the Criminal Justice System. a. Types of crime (and examples) and extent of crime: UCR, NCVS, comparison, trend, resources/cost. b. Street crime: perception and treatment and pressure on CJ system, consequences. c. CJ system and the poor: public defenders, contract system, court appointed lawyer, plea bargaining. d. CJ system and race: racial profiling, disproportionate arrests and convictions,...
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...Measuring Crime Paper Grant Curry CJA/ 204 Introduction to Criminal Justice October 5, 2015 Christopher Cannon Measuring Crime Crime is an act or omission prohibited and punished by law. Crime in the United States has increased since many years ago. Many years ago crime went unsolved or even lost in the system. Today crime can be investigated better in the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniformed Crime Report (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) agency are formed together to help investigate crime and to collect data from crime scenes. For many years, these agencies did not have the technology that we have today that also helps with better investigation. Instruments The NCVS agency is the primary source of information on the characteristics of criminal victimization on the types of crimes reported. Crime is measured in the United States by the FBI Uniformed Crime Report. This agency collects the data from the many different types of crime. These reports are then made and followed up with the FBI. The FBI reviews the crime reports carefully to make sure that the report is being reported correctly, accurately, and no errors are indicated on the reports. Then the NCVS agency collects the data and the information pertaining the crime and information from the victim. The information that NCVS collects is very important information that is needed to help solve the crime. The data that is collected is the time and place...
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...Journal - Week 1, Due 09.28.2014 Beginner’s Guide to Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses Beginner’s Guide to Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses. (2011, Mar. 04). Retrieved on September 26. 2014 from ICANN site: https://www.icann.org/resources/files/ip-addresses-beginners-guide-2011-03-04-en The Beginner’s Guide to IP Addresses is a publication by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private sector, non-profit corporation which assumes responsibility for IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions. The publication is part of the Beginner’s Guide series, published in the interest of educating new users about internet issues. The document details IP addresses, why we need them, protocol version history, implementation/distribution methods, and how these topics affect users. This particular concept is not new to me, but reading the document provided a ‘refresher course’ on topics that I have not recently studied. I use this information and technology on a daily basis - but through the course of use it is easy to step away from the fundamental details. In follow up reading, I find myself curious about the success of implementing IPv6 addressing. I know that it can be done, but have not seen a great deal of evidence that it is being done. As of June, 2014 the percentage of users accessing Google via IPv6 reached a milestone. 4%. While the 4% mark...
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...Uniform Crime Reports and the Major Components In 1930 the United States Department of Justice instituted the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) program since that time the UCR has become an important source of crime information for law enforcement, scholars, the media and policy makers. The UCR is comprised of two major components these components are “the summary-based data (often referred to as UCR data or simply summary) which has been collected since 1930 and the incident based data of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)” (Manning, 2011). This paper will attempt to address the following questions: 1. What are the Uniform Crime Reports and its major components? 2. What are the major components of the crime index? 3. What are the differences of the major components? What are the Uniform Crime Reports and its major components? The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is official data on crime in the United States, which is published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The UCR is a national, cooperative statistical effort of voluntary reporting data provided by city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies (Scott). The statistical data received from these agencies are compiled and published annually by the FBI in Crime in the United States. The offenses included in the UCR are divided into two categories which are violent crime and property crime. The offenses listed with the violent crime index are murder...
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...PREDICTING CRIME WITH THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING SYSTEM Predicting Crime With the Uniform Crime Reporting System Mitchell Adair Introduction to Criminal Justice: CJA 105-AUO A01 Argosy University 1 The Uniform Crime Reporting System is a statistical effort that is said to be cooperative of more than ten thousand state, city, and county law enforcement agencies on a basis that is considered to be voluntary when it comes to the reporting crime data that is brought to their attention. These agencies of the law enforcement profession covers more than eighty percent of the population of this nation.(DOJ/FBI, 2004) This said information that is produced by contributors of the Uniform Crime Reporting System is forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation directly through programs of UCR that is either state or local level of more than forty states and also D.C. State and local law enforcement agencies that directly submit to the FBI are given guidance on a continuous basis not to mention support individually. (DOJ/FBI, 2004) UCR programs that are on the level of state are links that have proven to be effective between contributors that are considered to be local and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well. A vast amount ...
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...The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are two major sources of crime statistics commonly used in the United States (Sources of Crime Data: Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System). Crime statistics is a complex process that is held to reflect accurately the incidence of crime in society (Criminal Statistics). Crime statistics first took shape in France in 1827, and it is now based on recorded offences and can be drawn from aggregate data recorded by official agencies such as the police and courts along with criminological research (Criminal Statistics). Criminology is the study of crime and in order to understand crime, one must study its existences along with...
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...enactment of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, there have been numerous expansions on the type of information that is collected for the reports. This has included collecting data on law enforcement officers killed or assaulted, arson, bias motivated crimes, and ethnic origin data of persons arrested. Although the Uniform Crime Report does provide a vast array of data regarding crime, the National Incident-Based Reporting System provides substantially more detail pertaining to crimes in an up to date record system. This is why it is crucial that completeness and accuracy is maintained by each reporting agency. Data gathered from these two sources are used not only to conduct crime analysis and research, but to also aid in the formulation of policies, decisions relating to strategic and operational measures. Data that is provided to the FBI are based on two functions. These two functions are called classifying and scoring. Classifying is determining the proper crime categories to report to the program. Scoring is counting the number of offenses after they have been classified and entering the total count on the appropriate reporting form. Each month, local, county, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies submit a Return A form to the UCR...
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... Measuring Crime Crime measurement and statistics for police departments are very important when it comes to money allotment, staffing needs or termination and it is also used to determine the effectiveness of new laws and programs. There are three tools used to measure major crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports, National Crime Victimization Survey and the National Incident Based Reporting System- which is currently being tested to replace the Uniform Crime Reports. Although there different tools used to measure crime, crime rates can be deceiving. Each different tool reports a different type of rate, crime rates, arrest rates, clearance rates and recidivism rates. The Uniform Crime Report is used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an annual publication that summarizes the rate of reported crimes through the United States. It reports on the eight major crimes: Murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, auto theft and arson. Different law enforcement agencies report to this data voluntary on a monthly basis to the FBI. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation website, “The Uniform Crime Reporting Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation. The program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association...
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...Crime Data Comparison GEN 314: Criminology March 9, 2015 Crime Data Comparison study within two Tennessee Metropolitan Cities Utilizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR), this paper will compare burglary crime statistics between two metropolitan cities within Tennessee. This paper will discuss which area had more reported burglary incidents, what were the rates of crime for each area, did the rates change over time in either area, and what factors might explain the differences in the rates. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program was created by the FBI in 1929 as an official crime data-gathering program covering the entire United States. It was developed from a national initiative by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), whose goal was to develop a set of uniform crime statistics for use by police agencies and policymakers (Schmalleger, 2012, p.235). Under the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program burglary is defined as an unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. The use of force to gain entry does not have to occur to be classified as an offense to burglary. Additionally, burglary is broken into three sub classifications: forcible entry, unlawful entry where no force is used, and attempted forcible entry. A “structure” is defined as an apartment, barn, house trailer or houseboat when used as a permanent dwelling, office, railroad car (but not an automobile)...
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