Compare and contrast the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and the National Crime Victimization Survey. Be sure to discuss its sources of information and how results from each are interpreted
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The two major official sources of victimization data that provide nationally-representative estimates are the UCR and the NCVS.
Similarities: Both provide a numerical description of the rate of various street crimes.
Both police departments and individuals in the households that are a part of the NCVS provide the data voluntarily. They are both only reliable to the extent that the national sample is truly representative of the general population of the country.
Differences: The UCR tracks crimes known to the police via an arrest. The NCVS records self-reported victimization. The UCR is data from police departments and the source of the NCVS is individuals 12 and over in randomly selected households. The UCR in incident based, the NCVS is person-centered. The UCR examines crimes that occurred at one point and time (at the point of arrest) whereas the NCVS looks at crimes across time (through the question to respondents on how many crimes they experienced over the past year).
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