The Pros And Cons Of The Uniform Crime Report

Uniform Crime Report data has many pros, but also many cons that come with it. There are many ways of which the Uniform Crime Report can be superior to, but also inferior to victimization and self-report data studies. According to Balkan (2015), the Uniform Crime Report shows crimes reported to police departments across the nation and is a report produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There are two offense categories in the report: part one and part two offenses. Part one offenses would be your more serious crimes such as homicides, rape, aggravated assaults, and so on. Part two offenses would be more of the property crimes such as fraud, simple assaults, and drug abuse. The Uniform Crime Report does an excellent job presenting the numbers in terms of the part one offenses, however, there are some cons that come with the Uniform Crime

Loftin and McDowall also mention that in order to understand what the Uniform Crime Report is saying and to do so accurately, one must make sure they understand the data that is being presented to them. With this said, in what ways can the Uniform Crime Report be superior and inferior to victimization surveys and self-report data? The Uniform Crime Report, according to Balkan (2015), while it doesn’t focus on the white collar crimes as much does focus on the part one offense like homicide and most of the part two offenses as well—the National Crime Victimization Survey actually excludes the serious crimes such as part one offenses. With that said, the Uniform Crime Report as many would agree is more inferior to other crime reporting alternatives. Balkan (2015) points out that the National Crime Victimization Survey will ask the additional questions to determine offender characteristics such as age, gender, race, and so