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Uniform Crime Reports

Annual publications containing criminological data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and intended to assist in identifying law enforcement problems, especially with regard to: murder and non-negligent Manslaughter, forcible rape, Robbery, aggravated assault, Burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and Arson. These studies provide a nationwide view of crime because they are based on statistics submitted by law enforcement agencies across the United States.

Critics of the Uniform Crime Reports have argued that local police departments may shape their record-keeping practices to produce results that will lend support to departmental positions on issues relating to crime and crime control. Most observers generally acknowledge, however, that the potential for manipulation in recordkeeping is not so great as to detract from the essential accuracy of the overall trends depicted in the Uniform Crime Reports.The FBI makes current and historical reports available online at <www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm>.

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The Modified Crime Index was the number of Crime Index offenses plus arson.
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The results also show that racial background was not a significant predictor of involvement in the index offenses. However, age ([beta] = .182, p <.01) had a moderate, positive effect on serious delinquency, with older youths reporting more frequent involvement.
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are serving time for drug offenses which are not included as index offenses.
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[4] Twenty-nine percent of these youths were arrested for Crime Index offenses. [5]
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In Table 1, data are displayed concerning Index offenses reported to the police and published in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports for 1997 (the most current data available).(55) In 1997, there were 13,175,100 Index offenses reported to the FBI.(56) Index offenses are deemed to be the most serious offenses and are classified as Index crimes, or Part I crimes.
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These four offenses - the Violent Crime Index offenses - are the crimes used by the FBI to monitor levels and changes in violent crime arrests over the years.
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While the reasons for the decline are not fully understood, they are often attributed to factors such as (1) more effective policing--even big cities such as New York have seen dramatic reductions in reported index offenses through more focused police work; (2) incapacitation of criminals resulting from increased rates of incarceration, from fewer than 100 per 100,000 in 1972 to more than 750 per 100,000 today; and (3) new immigrant populations, which are able to breathe new life into previously declining communities.
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Between 1994 and 2001, the juvenile arrest rate for Violent Crime Index offenses fell 44 percent.
In 2001, U.S. law enforcement agencies made an estimated 2.3 million arrests of persons under the age of 18
In 1996, males under age 25 made up 45 percent of the individuals arrested in the United States for index offenses.(11) This group also committed 46 percent of the violent crimes and 59 percent of property crimes.(12) Another well-replicated study found that approximately 6 percent of all juveniles commit more than half of the crimes in the United States.(13)
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The National Youth Survey (NYS) was used to assess index offenses (NYS-INDEX) and minor delinquency (NYS-MINOR).
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Cities and suburban counties, like the Nation as a whole, each experienced a 3-percent decline in the number of Crime Index offenses reported.
Crime in the United States - 1992

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