Section II: Crime Index offenses reported.(United States Uniform Crime Reporting Program's Crime Index statistics 1982-01)

Crime Index Total

Definition

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program's Crime Index is composed of selected offenses used to gauge fluctuations in the volume and rate of crime reported to law enforcement. These selected offenses include the violent crimes of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. The crime classifications were selected at the inception of the UCR Program in 1929 because they were considered by law enforcement and criminologists of the time to be the most serious and the most commonly reported crimes occurring in all areas of the ...

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