Describe the historical development of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and list the crimes on which it reports. How is the ongoing implementation of the National Incident-Based Reporting (NIBRS) system changing the UCR Program? How do data
reported under the new UCR/NIBRS differ from the crime statistics reported under the traditional UCR Program?
What will be an ideal response?
The FBI has been compiling statistics on crimes known to the police since 1930, by Congress authorization. The FBI received reports from 400 cities in 43 states in its first year of operation. Today, approximately 18,000 police departments voluntarily submit to the FBI information on the crimes that have been reported to them. To ensure reporting uniformity, the FBI developed standardized definitions of offenses. The original Uniform Crime Reporting Program was designed to permit comparisons over time through the Crime Index, which summed the reports of seven major offenses (murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) and expressed the result as a crime rate based on population. An eighth offense (arson) was added in 1979. Over the years, concern grew over the Crime Index’s unclear picture of criminality because the abundance of larceny-theft reports skewed the results. In 2004, the FBI discontinued its use of the Crime Index and instead published simple violent crime and property crime totals. The FBI is currently working to develop a better and more viable index.
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is an incident-based reporting system that collects detailed data on every single crime occurrence (as compared to the summary-based UCR). Under the new enhanced system, law enforcement agencies provide detailed information about crime and arrest activities at the incident level. NIBRS replaces the old Part I and Part II offenses with 22 general offenses and also eliminates the hierarchy rule. NIBRS is not a separate report, but utilizes data from the UCR system in more detail. With the addition of NIBRS based data, some of the older definitions of criminal activity have changed.
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