Compare And Contrast The UCR/NIBRS With The NCVS

Contrast the UCR/NIBRS with the NCVS The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) has been administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 1930 and has grown tremendously over the years. The UCR now includes data from city, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies from across the United States. In its infancy, the UCR constructed a Crime Index that “summed the occurrences of seven major offenses, including murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft—and expressed the results as a crime rate based on population” (Schmalleger, 2009) with arson being added to the list during 1979. However, due to skewed data the Crime Index was officially take out of use in the UCR/NIBRS program during 2004. The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) was initiated during 1988 and redesigned the UCR

In 1972, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) was first implemented and based on victim self-reports rather than on police reports to uncover crime that is not reported to police and

One particular example would be the definition of burglary. The NCVS “defines burglary as the entry or attempted entry of a residence by a person who had no right to be there” (Barnett-Ryan et al., 2014). Whereas the UCR “defines burglary as the unlawful entry or attempted entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft” (Barnett-Ryan et al., 2014). The fourth, the UCR/NIBRS program centers its data collection around actual offense counts that are reported by city, county, state and federal agencies. The NCVS program uses estimates from a portion of survey interviews. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) “describes trend data in the NCVS reports as genuine only if there is at least 90 percent certainty that the measured changes are not the result of sampling variation” (Barnett-Ryan et al.,