Uniform Crime Reporting System

Statistics Canada releases an annual report summarizing the crime that has happened and it presents the public with information about incidents of crime that have occurred in the past year (Allen, 2016 & Keighley, 2017). The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Survey and General Social Survey (GSS) on Victimization are the two main sources that are used in collecting data on crime that has happened in Canada (Allen, 2016 & Keighley, 2017, pg. 4). The UCR Survey includes incidents that have been reported to the police and how it was dealt with, while the GSS Survey on Victimization includes both incidents that have been reported as well as ones that have not. Both surveys are used to collect data and form the annual report that Statistics Canada release.

Compared to San Diego, California and Austin, Texas (having only 65 murders combined), New York and Chicago have much higher crime rates. Is this because of their population size? Is it because of the types of religions in their particular region? Or is it simply because people are out for

Those two define most of the cause of crime today, so maybe they weren’t as big of a factor as in the past. Today, the current city is worse in how crime has

Ford, Jason A., & Ryan D. Schroeder. 2010. “Higher Education And Criminal Offending Over The Life Course.” Sociological Spectrum: 32-58. This article investigates the idea that crime rates are directly related to an individuals level of education.

Criminal profiling has been and will important to both the court system and law enforcement. Profiling helps police by limiting the field of investigation by providing what kind of individual is most likely to commit a crime focusing on the type of behavior and characteristics. It consist of a collection of leads, and is described as an educated guest or attempt to provide certain information about a specific type of suspect (Geberth, 1981). It is also a way of providing behavioral patterns, trends and tendencies. Law enforcement has used behavioral forensic for many years for solving crimes by creating psychological profiles of criminals.

The issue of race within the police force dates back to the 1967 President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, which considered the lack of minority officers one of the central problems in policing at that time. Almost 50 years later and

This quote, from “Mind Over Mass and Media” suggests that the decline in crime may have been influenced by changes in popular culture and media. “When comic books were accused of turning juveniles into delinquents in the 1950s coincided with the great American crime decline. ”(pinker 1) In the article ¨Mind over mass and media” the author Steven Pinker is saying that due to the advancements in technology crime has declined since the 1950s. While Steven Pinker has a point, he overlooks the negative impact technology can have on younger minds.

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.

Crime is a blemish in almost every society. Criminals and law breakers have been around since biblical times and still haunt societies today. The American Criminal Justice System is in place to attempt to help control criminals. The idea is not to create a perfect society where no crime will be committed, but to contain the crime. Predicting crime is not an easy task, criminal justice officials take many steps to prevent crime from happening.

Considering the FBI Uniform Crime Report and the National Crime Victimization Survey Introduction Crime rates of America have pushed its Government to turn to recording of detailed crime history for its further analysis. Though there are two main programs designed for crime uncovering, that is, the FBI Uniform Crime Report and the National Crime Victimization Survey, recent amounts of crime suggest some weaknesses of methods used by them. This paper will consider disadvantages of both programs and on their grounds will suppose the most valuable for criminologists to use as a crime measuring device. Criticism of the FBI Uniform Crime Report The FBI Uniform Crime Report has some disadvantages in comparison with the National Crime Victimization

Based on the readings in Chapter 4, during the 1990’s there were 8 explanations for the drop in crime. Those explanations were, innovative policing strategies, increased reliance on prisons, changes in crack and other drug markets, aging of the population, tougher gun-control laws, strong economy, increased number of police and all other explanations (which includes gun buyback and increase use of capital punishment). I was very surprised by the findings in the reach found by Levitt and Dubner. The explanations given initially I believed were very good reasons for drop in crime. The shock was that most of those were not even reason for crime drops and the ones that were actual valid reasons were not what I expected.

The better of the two systems by far is National Incident-Based Reporting System or NIBRS, and basically, it offers much more detail, and for the state (MD) means collecting more quantifiable data. Under NIBRS, each offense incident is reported instead of using summaries as with Uniform Crime Reporting standards. NIBRS includes many more individual elements about events not covered with UCR. Besides, more crimes are reported in NIBRS and cover 49 'Group A ' offenses (Crime Against Person, Crime Against Property, or Crime Against Society).

Crime in the Victorian era was a prevalent issue that was deeply rooted in the social and economic conditions of the time. The Victorian era, which lasted from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, was a time of great industrialization and urbanization. As cities grew and became more crowded, crime rates increased, and law enforcement struggled to keep up. This essay will examine the causes and effects of crime in the Victorian era, as well as the efforts made to combat it.

Then begins the recording and mapping of police activity, crime reductions projects, calls for service and crime incidents. Crime mapping helps officers by identifying crimes that have recently occured and predicting where crime may occur in the future.(Chainey, S., & Ratcliffe, J. (2005). Gis and crime mapping. Wiley).Computer aided technology helps to show crimes on a map with options of making it more detailed, e.g selecting the time of day, location, crime subtype. Identifying crime hotspots for targeting, deploying and allocating suitable crime reductions responses.

Random sample surveys were conducted in Seattle, Washington by telephone, which asked citizen’s various questions concerning their feelings towards police. These questions included their level of happiness in regards to police problem-solving, their views on police hassling citizens, and if they had ever experienced, or perceived to experience racial profiling or bias by law enforcement (Wu, 2014). Of all the citizens that took part in the survey, 64% of African Americans felt that racial profiling was a problem inside their neighborhoods, 28% of Asians, 20% of whites, and 34% of Hispanics agreed (Wu,