- Started in 1929
- Get data from monthly reports
- National, state and local crime count is shown as well as tribal, college and universites and for  law enforcement
- Results released in the fall


Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)

- Started in 1973 originally called NCS National Crime Survey
- Renamed to NCVS in 1992
- 169,000 persons age 12 or older surveyed for 3.5 years
- Results released annually

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Ohio State University, Columbus

Study of etiology, prevention, control, and treatment of crime/delinquency, including detecting and measuring; crime, legislation, criminal law practice, law enforcement, judicial, and the correctional system.

Criminology

Bureau of Justice Statistics. (2014, September). The Nation’s Two Crime Measures. https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ntcm_2014.pdf.

The Nation’s Two Crime Measures

Possible Placements for Criminology:
- Under Social Sciences, as a "root node"
- Under Sociology, its current location, as in it' s not a discipline


Debate on the Placement of Criminology:

- Violent Crime
- Property Crime
- White-Collar Crime
- Organized Crime
- Consenual Crime

Types of Crime

Criminology References

- Classical
- Positivist/Biological
- Economic
- Psychological
- Sociological

Major Criminological Schools of Thought

How Crime is Measured in the USA

- Deviant actions violate norms, picking your nose in public
- Crimes violate laws which are codified norms
- Not all deviant actions are crimes but all crimes are deviant actions

Difference between Crime and Deviance

- The Criminal Justice system is anything related to the arrest, prosecution, defense, imprisonment and supervised release of criminals

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