Essays on Uniform Crime Report

Incarceration is used to deter juveniles from committing crimes, making the juvenile system more punitive. Serious juvenile crimes are those of a violent in nature, as reported in the FBI Uniform Crime Report. Juvenile arrests for robbery were alarming as this increased more than 30% since 2004 (Roberts 3). Female offenders for robbery have also increased, as reported in 1985 to 2002. Drug abuse violations rank next, but could also be the reason for committing robbery and violent crimes. This kind of juvenile offenses can be considered serious and needs more severe punishment. However, the question here is the ...

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Individual agencies categorize criminal data that is compiled in a report as Uniform Crime Reporting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is in charge of the Uniform Crime Reports program which is authorized to access data from local police reports. The UCR avails vital information on the rate of crimes and rates of rape cases. This program comprises of the National Incident-Based Reporting System and the Summary Reporting System. Initially back in 1929 when the program began, it was founded by police commissioners who saw the essence of establishing a trustworthy criminal statistics for the US ("FBI — Uniform Crime Reporting," ...

If post-Furman death penalty statutes and Court decisions had the impacts desired by the Court’s majority in Furman

The court ruling and post-Furman death penalty statutes have not achieved the desired effects since capital punishment still follow the same trend. Importantly, racial discrimination is still evident in convicting murder and other serious offenders. Black Americans have higher chances of facing capital punishment as compared to Natives with similar offenses. Since the revival of the capital penalty in the 1970s, close to half of offenders on death row are blacks (Uniform crime report, n.p.). Evidently, the White and Black Americans exhibit equal chances of committing murder or rape. Thus, the reports on the ratio of blacks and whites ...

Question 1

According to the Uniform Crime Report 2005, the juveniles (crime offenders below the age of 18 years) recorded the highest number of crime in the United States. Although there was a 2% increase in the number of crimes committed and reported in the year, in comparison to the year 2004, the juveniles reported the highest number of criminal cases, which totaled to 30% of the entire criminal cases reported in the United States in that year. From Bartol & Bartol’s analysis, most of these criminal activities and murders were psychologically affiliated, and an analysis from various psychologists indicated that ...

Question One

The term victimology conveys different-contextual meanings, but based on the video, the word victimology refers to the scientific study of victimization-mainly the victims’ relationship with criminal justice system, offenders, law enforcement agencies, the media, business fraternity other, and other social institutions. Victimology also means the study of victims of other forms of crimes, which violate human rights. In this video, the detectives are trying to amend the relationship with the victim, after realizing that victim was charged wrongly; an idea that has affected the victim psychologically and emotionally. As an investigation officer, I would apologize to the victim for ...

Law

Abstract This paper will discuss three information technology systems used by modern policing and how these three technologies had assisted in the improvement of the community policing program. These three technologies are the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) database of the FBI, Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Crime mapping. The paper has provided a detailed discussion on the significant benefits that the technologies had on law enforcement operations, specifically on community-oriented policing (COP), the drawbacks of these technologies on law enforcement operations and the specific problems that had been directly addressed by UCR, CAD and Crime mapping. These three technologies are ...