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Uniform Crime reporting system

official crime statistics, or police recorded crime statistics

by systematically collecting observable data on crime.

it must EXPLAIN and UNDERSTAND the nature of crime

objectivist legalist approach

Canadian center for justice statistics

since the police are reporting on the crimes they know about, it brings to question: 1- what about the crimes they dont know 2-How exactly do these crimes get counted

when it comes to submitting UCR reports and multiple offences are charged to one person, police will typically only count the most serious offence. This is going to cause shifts in the actual numbers and statistics of crime.

violent crimes, property crimes, and other criminal code violations.

it is based on the amount of sentencing and punishments.

• you end up inflating serious crimes as the percentage of the total
• youre not recording qualitative data about what really happened.

tot # of police reported crime TIMES 100k. then divide that number by the population size.

1. comparing results over time 2.comparing results between places

second generation UCR

it used to, but not currently

a steady increase in crime rate which peaks in the 90s and then declines until around 2014- and has been up and down ever since.

it is a system created to categorize crimes in terms of their weight. for example more serious crimes and weighted more- and will have more impact on the index.

1- legislation- a behaviour becoming criminilzed or decriminalized. 2Human and fiscal resource= people and money and other resource police has may affect their ability to record and report crime. 3- police priorities; regarding the reinforcement of certain crimes and shi.

people are more likely to report certain crimes over others. homecide over sexual assault

when there is political pressure, government and police find ways to manipulate and adjust numbers.