...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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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...Race, Culture and Crime Reports Unit 6 DB 1 Ann-Marie Cameron Cappella University Dr. Peace May 16, 2016 Annotated Outline I. Introduction A. Race and Culture II. Areas That Will Be Examine for Trends A. Crime Reports B. Statistical Evidence about Crime C. Affected Culture, Age, and Race III. Incident Reporting System A. Federal Bureau of Investigation B. National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) C. Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) IV. Suggestions and Solution For A Better Reporting Data System from Law Enforcement Agencies and Community Resources A. Public Safety and Law Enforcement Agencies B. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) C. Department Of Justice (DOJ) D. Community Relations Service (CRS) E. Local Law Enforcement Agencies F. Age Groups That Will Be Affected For Suggestion Improvement V. Conclusion VI. References Annotated Bibliography FBI 2014 National Incident-Based Reporting System (2014).Retrieved from https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/december/2014-nibrs-statistics-released/2014-nibrs-statistics-released The goal of this article was to examine statistics data that was collected and reported to the...
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...Crime Statistic Sources The United States measures crime through two major statistical sources, the Federal Bureau of Investigations Uniform Crime Report/National Incident-Based Reporting System and the National Victimization Survey. Data from the two sources, although collected differently, show an array of crime data in the United States and is a method to monitor criminal activity. They both have positive and negative attributes that have influenced different aspects of society. It is important to remember that statistical aggregates of reporting crime, whatever the source, does not reveal the lost lives, human suffering, lessened productivity, and reduces quality of life that crime causes (Schmallager, 2011). The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the crime statistics of more than 16,000 law enforcement agencies (Schmallager, 2011). Congress created this program in 1930 and designated the FBI to implement the program (Schmallager, 2011). The programs primary objective is to generate a reliable set of criminal statistics for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management; however, its data have over the years become on of the country’s leading social indicators (national atlas, 2003). Citizens use these reports to see fluctuations in crime levels and law enforcement uses it for planning and crime prevention programs. Eight Part I offenses are included in the UCR Reports, also known as the Crime Index. The violent crimes are murder, forcible rape...
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...Measuring Crime in the United States Kyra Pettit CJA/204 August 5, 2013 Dr. Wafeeq Sabir Measuring Crime in the United States In the following paper, these criminal justice students will address the three major points of crime measurement in the United States. Even though there may be changes of crime statistics, but not changes in the crime rate; that is because crime can be measured in numerous ways. Two measuring systems being the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), report criminal information, but do not reflect it all. Because of the different factors that go into reporting crime some crimes go unreported. Instruments Crime is measured through statistics in the United States. Statistics help develop and see how new laws and programs are working. The three statistical reports used to measure crime in the United States are the (UCR) Uniform Crime Report, (NCVS) National Crime Victimization Survey, and (NIBRS) The National Incident Based Reporting System (Schmalleger, 2011). All of the crime instruments used can only be as accurate as the sources given to them. Programs and Purpose The FBI’s statistical program is the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program administered by the Department of Justice which measures the impact of the crime, magnitude, and nature of the crime. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. This survey randomly selects individuals that may...
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...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 household. The two systems are a...
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...of Crime Stephanie Winget CJS/201 03/07/2016 Robin Clawson Measuring of Crime With having multiple ways of gaining crime statistics, it can be difficult to figure out which ones are the most accurate. Uniform Crime Reports, National Crime Victimization Surveys and the National Incident Based Reporting System are three ways of collecting crime data. However all three have different statistics that they collect. Uniform Crime Reports One of the main sources of gaining crime statistics are Uniform Crime Reports, also known as UCR’s. These are crime statistics that are given to the FBI by law enforcement agencies on a monthly basis, based off of their reports. There are only eight crimes that this crime reporting program reports on. Those crimes are murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, auto theft, arson and larceny. National Crime Victimization Survey This crime reporting program is a survey done of households to determine the extent of criminal victimization, more so the unreported victimization. This survey is conducted twice a year. This reporting program helps to determine what amount of crimes people have not reported. Whether it is because they are too scared to because of what consequence could come from the offender, or because they may not have known that they had been robbed right away there are many reasons that civilians don’t report crime. National Incident Based Reporting System This...
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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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...Crime Reporting and Victimization Paper Christian Viejo CJS/239 September 12th, 2012 Bob Young Crime Reporting and Victimization Paper Imagine living in a world where there is nothing that is tracked. We would have no way of knowing our history as we do now and will only have what someone makes up. In order to know our history and the history around, it is important to take notes and keep a record of all events. The same goes for keeping track of other items such as crimes. It is important to keep track of this information so that we can pick up and trends that may be caught on and help prevent the crimes in the future. In order to keep track of this information, there are certain tools that help keep track of it. We will discuss those tools and the differences of them. We will also discuss the impact of victimization and how the data can help prevent crimes against someone in the future. Common Sources of Crime Reporting Data According to the “National Institute of Justice” (2009), there are two major reports that are used to collect data on crimes within our country. The first of these reports is called the Uniform Crime Reports, also known as UCR. The second of these is called the National Incident-Based Reporting System. Someone may ask why there are two different sources being used and the answer is simple. Each report although collects similar information, collect different information and is used by different agencies. The Uniform Crime...
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..."Merriam-Webster.com" (2015), crime is “an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law; especially a gross violation of law’ (Full Definition of Crime). According to "Study.com" (2015), Criminology is defined as “the scientific study of crime, including its causes, responses by law enforcement and methods of prevention. It is a sub-group of sociology, which is the scientific study of social behavior. There are many fields of study that are used in the field of criminology, including biology, statistics, psychology, psychiatry, economics, and anthropology” (What Is Criminology?). Uniform Crime Reports The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is utilized to offer a summary of crime statistics that are computed yearly with data reported by police. There are eight main crime groups described in the Uniform Crime Report. They are murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, vehicle theft, and arson. The Uniform Crime Report uses information that is amassed monthly from local and state law enforcement groups or separate crime transmitted reports to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). The information is then circulated nationwide ("Fbi.gov”, 2015). National Incident Based Reporting System In 1991 the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) was initiated to enhance the quantity and quality of crime data gathered by law enforcement...
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