Citation

Loftin C, McDowall D. J. Quant. Criminol. 2010; 26(4): 527-532.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10940-010-9120-8

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Abstract

What are "Official" RecordsThe term "official records" is broad and would include data taken from any set of administrative records in order to measure crime or features of criminal justice. In practice, it is usually taken to refer to police or court records. For present purposes, we will limit discussion to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. This includes the older "Summary Reporting System" with seven different data collections (Offenses Known to the Police also called Return A; Age, Sex and Race of Persons Arrested; Supplementary Homicide Report; Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted; Full-time Law Enforcement Employees; Arson Offenses Known to Law Enforcement; and Hate Crime), as well as the National Incident-Based Reporting System which is currently under development. The term "UCR" is ambiguous. When we refer to the whole organizational enterprise coordinated by the FBI, we use the term "UCR Program," otherwise we will refer to specific data collections. ...

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