Uniform Crime Report and National Incident Based Reporting System
The two main sources of crime data used in the United States of America to customarily monitor the degree and nature of crime are (NIBRS) the National Incident-Based Reporting System and (UCR) the Uniform Crime Reporting. The data they use is collected, analyzed and organized by different federal US agencies, for example, the (FBI) Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The data from these two sources is utilized by crime data analyst to settle on the intensity and nature of various law breaches and to acquire information concerning the background, personality, and behavior of the criminal offenders. UCR comprise of data gathered by FBI from more than 17,000 home police departments all through the United States of America (West and Hill, 1941).
A much-enhanced description of (UCR) Uniform Crime Reports is recognized as the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) holds a very large degree of information regarding various crimes taking place all over the USA. The information enclosed within the NIBRS is prepared in different complex techniques.
In the subsection to follow a comprehensive discussion will be done, Contrasting and comparing various significant features of the Features of Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and The National Incident-Based Reporting System NIBRS.
