Nowadays violent crime such as murder, nonnegligent homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and property crime such as burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft and arson are widely spread throughout the world. They take place wherever we go and, of course, they influence our lives in negative way. My goal here is to estimate and compare the statistics of types of crime mentioned in the state of Florida and nationwide.
Before artlessly referring to statistics, it would be appropriate to talk about the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, as the one that collects statistics on violent crime and property crime, its history, and the sampling methods that are used by the UCR Program.
Being nationwide, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting is created by approximately 18, 000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies. Such agencies report data on crimes that catch their attention absolutely voluntarily. The FBI has managed the UCR and kept on assessing and monitoring the types and the nature of crime in the Nation since 1930. The main target of UCR is to generate information that is reliable for applying it in law enforcement administration, operation and management.
The information that is compiled and administered by UCR is given to the FBI directly from local law enforcement agencies or via state-level UCR programs in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Such programs may be effective in terms of intermediating between local contributors and the FBI. The FBI gains straight collection of information from individual law enforcement agencies within the state. The data, instead, is forwarded to the national program via the state data collection agency. These systems are developed under the conditions that ensure consistency and comparability in the information pointed to the national program.
This information is extremely useful for criminologists, sociologists, legislators, the media, and more for different researches and other purposes.
Originally, the Uniform Crime Reporting was founded in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. It was originated with the purpose to keep the track of reliable and uniform crime statistics for the nation.
The IACP created the Committee on Uniform Crime Records, because of the understanding the need for national crime statistics. And in the same year the Committee completed a plan for crime reporting after it has studied state criminal codes and made an evaluation of the recordkeeping practices in use. This plan became fundamental for the UCR Program. This plan contained standardized offense definitions for seven offense classifications (Part I). “Moreover, the developers instituted the Hierarchy Rule as the main reporting procedure for what is now known as the Summary reporting system of UCR” (Federal Bureau of investigation).
Seven classification that were mentioned above, contained violent crimes of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. In 1979 such type of crime as arson was added as the eighth Part I offense category.
In January 1930, there were quite a lot of participants in the UCR Program. …