This is a round about way to learn about the number of crimes. It can also tell us some interesting things about crime. Women are more likely to report crimes than men. Men are more often victimized for non-sexual crimes than women. Much of our personal crime is committed by persons known to the victim although stranger crime is on the rise.
Most crimes are intraracial.
White on white, black on black, etc. Know that this stands for Uniform Crime Report. The UCR has been produced by the FBI since the mid-1930's and is recognized world wide as perhaps the best attempt to measure the number of certain crimes in our society. You can see the UCR's for the past 15 years or so in our campus library. We will be using some actual data published in the latest UCR for our class project.