Crime in the United States
(Uniform Crime Reports)
Overview
The Crime in the United States CD-ROM is an electronic version of the title from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and gives a nationwide view of crime based on statistics contributed by state and local law enforcement agencies.
The Uniform Crime Reporting Program is a long-standing, nationwide cooperative program of over 16,000 city, county, and state law enforcement agencies. This statistical program is a compilation of data voluntarily reported by these agencies. The Uniform Crime Reporting Program is continually changing in an effort to maintain that relationship so law enforcement agencies and personnel can meet each challenge in the years to come.
NOTE: Users are cautioned against comparisons of crime trends presented in this report and reports produced by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Because of differences in methodology and crime coverage, the two programs examine the nation's crime problem from different perspectives, and the results are not strictly comparable. The definitional and procedural differences can account for many of the apparent discrepancies in results from the two programs. Appendix IV, "The Nation's Two Crime Measures," contains a detailed description for NCVS and UCR.
Contents
The information is arranged in a TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- PREFACE
- CRIME FACTORS
- CONTENTS
SECTION I - Summary of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program
SECTION II - Crime index offenses reported
SECTION III - Crime index offenses cleared
SECTION IV - Persons arrested
SECTION V - Weapons used in violent crime
SECTION VI - Law enforcement personnel
SECTION VII - Appendix
To view any items in the TABLE OF CONTENTS, click on the line of the item of choice. Documents on the Crime in the United States CD-ROM are in .pdf files, and must be read with an Adobe Acrobat program. Many reports in the WEB version are Excel files.
Printing/Downloading
Documents can be printed by selecting "Print" from the menu on the Adobe tool bar. There is no downloading feature on this CD-ROM.
05/19/00; reviewed 03/04/2005; 5/17/2011