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Uniform Crime Report Essay

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Uniform Crime Report is a program developed by the FBI to gather all retrieved data from la enforcement offices all over the country of the United States. The FBI doesn’t not analyze the crime report, they just compile it because law enforcement agencies voluntarily provide the data to the FBI which then they release it to the public. The great thing about UCR is that it lets society/ individual statistically compare crimes from previous year to now, see what particular crime is happening the most. The bad part of the UCR is that is not always accurate, the information gathered can be made up by a victim of a crime or the agency did not erase the report before submitting it. The UCR has both Pros and Cons which can be useful but mislead.
The National Incident Based Reporting System is an upgrade form the Uniform Crime Report; its an incident-based reporting system used by law enforcement agencies in the United States for collecting and reporting data on crimes. The purpose of NIBRS is to fix the problems that the UCR had with the crime data, fixing the inaccurate information.The NIBRS is more accurate in a way of the …show more content…

Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 90,000 households, comprising nearly 160,000 persons, on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States)(Schmalleger, 2015). A perfect example would be rape, domestic violence and abuse. NCVS survey interviews consist of everyone meaning adults to children and the encountered of crime they were involved in. The only problem with the NCVS is that some of the crime is not reported, its very similar with the UCR because the difference is the numbers in which gives a true statistic on how many people encountered that particular

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