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Appendix D: The Uniform Crime Reporting Program
Appendix D: The Uniform Crime Reporting Program
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are summarized in Table D-1. D–1 SUMMARY REPORTING SYSTEM D–1.a Index Crimes The core content of the Uniform Crime Reporting program inherits directly from the work of a Committee on Uniform Crime Records convened by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
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No No No Elderly Yes No No Timeliness of data availability Time between reference period and data availability Pre-announced schedule Yes Yes Yes Fixed schedule Yes Yes Yes Accuracy and quality Sampling error Routinely Unmeasured Unmeasured estimated Other errors (nonsampling) No ongoing Unknown Unknown evaluation
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. Although the labels have changed slightly, the seven crimes identified by the 1927 IACP committee remain the focus of today's Uniform Crime Reports and are known as "Part I offenses." Three of these are crimes against persons -- criminal homicide, forcible rape, and aggravated assault -- and four are crimes against property: robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.
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Arson is also a special case because it is reported on a separate form from the other Part I offense: multiple-offense crimes involving arson can include two reported Part I offenses, the arson tally on the separate schedule and the highest-ranking Part I offense under the usual rule reported on Return A The third exception to the hierarchy rule is justifiable homicide, "defined as and limited to the killing of a felon by a police officer in the line of duty [or]
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D–1.c Supplemental Reports In the Summary Reporting System, participating agencies are asked to report counts of all Part I offenses known to law enforcement on a standard, monthly form known as Return A However, Return A is not the only data collection requested by the FBI.
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The conference attendees recom mended that the implementation of national incident-based reporting proceed at a pace commensurate with the resources and limitations of contributing law enforcement agencies. The NIBRS incident report is quite intricate and allows for great flexibility in the coding of individual events: spanning 46 offense categories, each incident report can include up to 10 offenses, 3 weapons, 10 relationships to victim, and 2 circumstance codes.
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