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Nation's Two Crime Measures

NCJ Number
246832
Date Published
Annotation
This Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report summarizes the U.S. Department of Justice's two primary statistical programs that measure the magnitude, nature and impact of crime in the nation.
Abstract
Summarizes the U.S. Department of Justice's two primary statistical programs that measure the magnitude, nature, and impact of crime in the nation. This report describes the strengths, limitations, differences, and complementary aspects of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

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National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Victimization surveys US Department of Justice Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program National Crime Surveys National crime statistics Offenses State Law enforcement Statistics Victims of crime Arrests Victimization Violent crime Local Property crime National
Date Created: September 17, 2014

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