- Violent Crimes (Rape and other sexual assault crimes, Simple and Aggravated Assault, Robbery)
- Property Crimes (Personal Larceny, Motor Vehicle Theft and other theft, and Burglary)
- Reported and unreported crimes
- Why the crimes were not reported
- Victim information  (such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, income, and educational level)
- Offenders information (including time and place of occurrence, use of weapons, nature of the injury, and economic consequences)
- Substance use by offenders
- Self-protective measures used by offenders
- Vicims exprience with criminal justice system

Data included in NCVS

- 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

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How Crime is Measured in the USA

- 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


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