Provide two to three ways that the UCR and NCVS are useful to criminologists

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The UCR and the NCVS provide data on crimes committed in the U.S. Thus, both are very useful in determining past patterns of various crimes, and in making predictions about future patterns of crime. Because of the different collection methods (one is an actual count, the other is based on a scientifically selected sample), criminologists are able to consider the dark figure of crime.

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