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This 8 page paper provides a very brief historical overview of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The paper then explains and discusses the types of crime data the FBI collects for this program and how they obtain the data. The writer discuses the strengths and weaknesses of the system, including the fact that not all crimes are reported to police officers and how the definitions of crimes may differ between states. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) who devised and designed the idea of the UCR in January 1930 (Maltz, 1999). At the time, newspapers were writing about "crime
waves" that were only in the reporters imaginations; the police chiefs decided to have a national reporting program to combat the imaginary crime waves with valid statistics (Maltz, 1999). The
chiefs believed that a uniform national central system that collected and reported accurate data would end public reports of crime waves that did not exist (Maltz, 1999). The IACP subsequently
asked the FBI to take over this uniform reporting system shortly after they established it (Maltz, 1999). At about the same time, some states were also trying to centralize
their crime data for accurate state-wide statistics (Maltz, 1999). It wasnt long before those states were sending regular reports to the FBI (Maltz, 1999). The FBI did develop some uniform
reporting guidelines to allow the agency to handle and analyze the data more easily and more accurately (Maltz, 1999). As of 1999, 44 states were submitting monthly uniform crime data
reports to the UCR (Maltz, 1999). The FBI publishes a report entitled Crime in the United States (CIUS) each year (Maltz, 1999). The CIUS is the report most commonly used
in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains their data from more than 17,000 police agencies in the United States and territories who submit
monthly reports regarding known crimes and arrests made (Maltz, 1999). The UCR is under the Public Support Section, which is a section of the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
Division of the FBI (Maltz, 1999). There are eight units within the CJIS, five of which are involved with the CIUS: 1. The Statistical Unit collects, checks and manages the
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