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Article: Section II: Crime Index offenses reported.(United States Uniform Crime Reporting Program's Crime Index statistics 1982-01)
- Article from:
- Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United States
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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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 ...
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Article: Section III: Crime Index offenses cleared.
Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United States;
January 1, 2001 ;
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......offender committed a crime in another jurisdiction...recorded a 19.6-percent Crime Index clearance rate. (The Crime Index offenses include murder...larceny-theft.) The Modified Crime Index total (the Crime Index offenses plus arson...was 12.7 percent. (See ...
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