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Pros And Cons Of Uniform Crime Report

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UCR or known as the Uniform crime reports is an annual report published by the FBI in the DOJ, which is meant to estimate most of the major street crimes in the United States.The main purpose of the UCR is basically to collect as many crimes or reliable crimes that come up as crime statistics so it can be used in our law enforcement administration. The Ucr is a very helpful tool for the law. The system was created in 1929. It provided information for criminologists,sociologists, and even the media. The Ucr mostly concentrates on assaults and robberies. The NIBRS or the national incident based reporting system is the system that the government uses for gathering data about recent or past crimes. The system has a lot of purposes but one of the main purposes’ is to evaluate the crimes associated with any current culture of violence theories. …show more content…

Another measure of crime is the NCVS. The NCVS or the national crime victimization survey is a primary measure of crime in the U.S. it is collected not only by the DOJ but also the Census Bureau. The main purpose of the NCVS was to gather information that was not reported to the law. The NCVS was acknowledge and founded in 1972 by the National Opinion Research Center. An interesting fact about the NIBRS is that the survey is done twice a year at random.Measuring crime is essential believe it or not. How are we going to know which crimes have risen and which crimes have not. We measure crime for various reasons. One of those reasons’ is explanation. how are we going to know what happened at the crime scene. It is also used for evaluation, that addresses criminal activity. Crime statistics are commonly known to be used for political purposes. NCVS has a lot in

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