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Uniform Crime
Reports
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation annually publishes Crime in the United States,
which contains statistics on crimes reported to U.S. law enforcement
authorities participating in the FBI's UCR program. Not all law
enforcement agencies in the U.S. participate in the UCR program.
- "The Nation's Two Crime Measures." U.S. Department of Justice, Nov 1995, NCJ 122795. Decribes the purposes and advantages of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) of the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) of the Bureau of Justice Statistics as measures of crime in the United States.
- Uniform Crime Reports. The FBI's annual Crime in the United States reports, as well as hate crime statistics and statistics on law enforcement officers killed and assaulted, downloadable in Acrobat PDF format. Statistics are also available from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Other crime information
- Social Statistics Briefing Room: Crime. Current federal statistics on rates of violent crime, homicide, and property crime, as well as arrests for drug abuse violations and national correctional populations.
- Yahoo - Society and Culture: Crime
- See also U.S. criminal justice system statistics.