Crime Data Comparison Paper

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    Professor, Long Island University Crime occurs, and crime is something that is a part of our everyday lives. To understand how much crime there is, as to understand why crime occurs, you need to do something about it. The first step is to measure it. The first step we have is to measure it. How many people are affected by crime? How many victims do we have? What causes crime to occur? Are there hotspots in the area throughout the country that are worse than others? What causes individuals to go out and commit these crimes and how much crime is really there? We hear often about how crime is on the decline, crime is on the increase; why is that and do we know what that all means? Well in order to understand it, we have to have something that measures crime and tells us ‘this is where crime occurs, this is what happens when crime occurs and these, this is how victims we have involved in crime.’
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  • How Crimes are Measured

Utilize FBI Uniform Crime Report data and select one offense, such as burglary, in two metropolitan areas.

Choose metropolitan areas with different data.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper comparing the occurrence of the offense in the selected areas. Identify the number of occurrences reported to the police for each area, and address the following questions:

  • Which area had more reported incidents?
  • What were the rates of the crime for each area?
  • Did the rates change over time in either area?
  • What factors might explain the differences in the rates?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.



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Running head: CRIME DATA COMPARISON

Crime Data Comparison
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CRIME DATA COMPARISON

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Introduction

Crime has a great impact on the well-being of a society in general. Most of the impact is,
however, felt by the victims. Crime and fear of crime most of the times affect one’s personal
decisions, for instance, whether to walk through a certain neighborhood or whether to let
children out to play. People who live in urban areas are more affected by crime than those living
in rural areas (Adelman et al., 2017). To address the issue of crime, data is required on the
progress of criminal activities and the areas most affected by criminal activities. There are
numerous ways to collect data on crime. In the United States of America, the two main programs
for data collection are the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Uniform Crime Reports.
The National Crime Victimization Survey is from the Bureau of Justice Statistics while the
Uniform Crime Reports are from the FBI. The FBI get the criminality statistics from agencies
that deal with law enforcement all over the nation through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Program. The program gathers crime statistics on the property crime, on violent crime such as
robbery, rape, assault, and murder and non-negligent and on arrest data for o...

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