Thus sentencing laws like three strikes and you are out are becoming popular. However, when one really thinks them through there is little reason to believe that much more than an increase in prison populations will occur. Every few years the Federal government conducts a massive survey of the American population to determine how many victims we have in our society. 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.