From where does the FBI get the data that is presented in the UCR? Which eight crimes are included in the “Offenses Known to Law Enforcement” data? What is the difference between the “Offenses Known to Law Enforcement” data and the “Persons Arrested” data?
For the following questions, you will use the UCR data website (as shown in the video from Module 02).
2. What was the national violent crime rate (per 100,000 population) in 1999, 2008, and 2018? Using this data, discuss how the violent crime rate has changed over the past 20 years.
3. In 2016, which region of the U.S. (Northeast, South, Midwest, West) had the highest property crime rate per 100,000 population and which had the lowest? In 2010, which region has the highest rate of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter and which has the lowest?
4. In 2018, how many juveniles (under 18) were arrested for robbery in Idaho? What percentage of all arrests for robbery in Idaho were committed by juveniles (to calculate a percentage, divide the number of juvenile robbery arrests by the total number of robbery arrests and then multiply by 100)? Which state (excluding Washington, D.C.) had the fewest number of total arrests for burglary?
5. Nationally, there was only one crime type where there were more arrests of females compared to males in 2018. Name this crime, as well as the number of female and male arrests for the crime.
Video from module 2- https://boisestate.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c7e06e10-034c-48e4-8374-ac14011b71b9
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