The Criminal Justice system is made up of multiple sections to ensure citizens safety around the world. Every town, city, county, state, and country has some sort of system to prevent all different types of crime. The Uniform Crime Reporting or UCR, measures crime by the FBI. The National Crime Victimization Survey or NCVS, measures crime through victims reporting an incident. Together, the UCR and NCVS help report the crimes committed in certain areas. Crime measuring helps law enforcement, courts, and corrections detect what crimes are committed and where the crimes are committed. Each of the different types of measuring have advantages and disadvantages to thr Criminal Justice system. The UCR measures crime by the FBI. The FBI compiles
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The NCVS gives victims a way to report crime in general. The NCVS was mainly brought about the measure difficult crimes in rape, sexual-assault, and domestic violence (Dodge and Rennison 2015). Crimes that involved rape, or any type of violence are always harder for victims to talk about and report. The survey provides people the ability to report dragic falls on their life. An advantage of the NCVS involves more protection of the victim from an armed offender especially with assualts (Dodge and Rennison 2015). Another reason why the NCVS provides an advantage was by the amount of crime rate numbers that went up by reporting the crimes in this particular way. There are many people who do not report crimes, but the NCVS helped people come forward and report in the NCVS fashion. Even though the NCVS has advantages, there are disadvantages as well. For example, "Today, the NCVS is the nation 's primary source of information about the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of violent victimization against persons age 12 and older (Dodge and Rennison)". The NCVS only allows reports of people who are twelve years of age or older. The NCVS should allow every age to be reported no matter what. Another disadvantage with the NCVS can be the sampling and nonsampling error. Since the NCIS requires a survey, the survey can experience a inevitable error. Unfortunately, there cannot be a one hundred percent way to calculate all crime around the world. The most effective way to calculate crime rate must be by the
The NCVS gives victims a way to report crime in general. The NCVS was mainly brought about the measure difficult crimes in rape, sexual-assault, and domestic violence (Dodge and Rennison 2015). Crimes that involved rape, or any type of violence are always harder for victims to talk about and report. The survey provides people the ability to report dragic falls on their life. An advantage of the NCVS involves more protection of the victim from an armed offender especially with assualts (Dodge and Rennison 2015). Another reason why the NCVS provides an advantage was by the amount of crime rate numbers that went up by reporting the crimes in this particular way. There are many people who do not report crimes, but the NCVS helped people come forward and report in the NCVS fashion. Even though the NCVS has advantages, there are disadvantages as well. For example, "Today, the NCVS is the nation 's primary source of information about the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of violent victimization against persons age 12 and older (Dodge and Rennison)". The NCVS only allows reports of people who are twelve years of age or older. The NCVS should allow every age to be reported no matter what. Another disadvantage with the NCVS can be the sampling and nonsampling error. Since the NCIS requires a survey, the survey can experience a inevitable error. Unfortunately, there cannot be a one hundred percent way to calculate all crime around the world. The most effective way to calculate crime rate must be by the