The most broadly adopted standard for reporting crime in the United States is the Uniform Crime Report (UCR). In a practice that dates to the 1930's, law enforcement agencies across the country report to the FBI on a monthly basis the number of crime incidents reported and the number of cases cleared. The FBI compiles and analyzes this statistical information to produce the annual Crime in the United States report.

Contents 1 Crime Classifications 1.1 Part I Crimes 1.1.1 Property Stolen by Classification 1.1.2 Property Stolen by Type and Value 1.1.3 Arson Details 1.2 Part II Crimes 1.2.1 Time 1.2.2 Additional Classifications 2 Vocabulary Specifications 3 Resources 4 See Also 5 External Links

Crime Classifications

UCR groups criminal offenses into Part I and Part II offenses. Part I offenses are in turn divided into two categories: violent and property crimes.

Part I Crimes

• Violent Crime
  • Aggravated assault
  • Forcible rape
  • Murder
  • Robbery
• Property Crime
  • Arson
  • Burglary
  • Larceny-theft
  • Motor vehicle theft

Part I, also known as "index crimes", are reported monthly via Return A - Monthly Return of Offenses Known to the Police (see Resources below). Return A also includes two property reports:

1. Property Stolen by Classification
2. Property Stolen by Type and Value

Property Stolen by Classification

Reports the number of crimes by type along with the associated monetary value of stolen property.

• Burglaries
  • Forcible Entry
  • Unlawful Entry - No Force
  • Attempted Forcible Entry

Property Stolen by Type and Value

Monetary value of both stolen and recovered property are reported as one of following property types:

• Currency, Notes, Etc.
• Jewelry and Precious Metals
• Clothing and Furs
• Locally Stolen Motor Vehicles
• Office Equipment
• Televisions, Radios, Stereos, Etc.
• Firearms
• Household Goods
• Consumable Goods
• Livestock
• Miscellaneous

Arson Details

• Single Occupancy Residential (houses, townhouses, duplexes, etc)
• Other Residential (apartments, tenements, flats, hotels, motels, dormitories, etc)
• Storage (barns, garages, warehouses, etc)
• Industrial/Manufacturing
• Other Commercial (stores, restaurants, offices, etc)
• Community/Public (churches, jails, schools, colleges, hospitals, etc)
• All Other Structures (out buildings, monuments, buildings under construction, etc)
• Motor Vehicles (automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, etc)
• Other Mobile Property (trailers, recreational vehicles, airplanes, boats, etc)
• Other (crops, timber, fences, signs, etc)

Part II Crimes

• Simple assault
• Curfew offenses and loitering
• Embezzlement
• Forgery and counterfeiting
• Disorderly conduct
• Driving under the influence
• Drug offenses
• Fraud
• Gambling
• Liquor offenses
• Offenses against the family
• Prostitution
• Public drunkenness
• Runaways
• Sex offenses
• Stolen property
• Vandalism
• Vagrancy
• Weapons offenses

Time

Offenses are counted in times-of-day groupings:

• Unknown Time
• 6pm - 6am
• 6am - 6pm

Additional Classifications

• Residence
• Non-residence

Vocabulary Specifications

The following specifications provide structured, controlled vocabularies for reporting municipal crime data.

1. Crime summary vocabulary
2. Crime incident vocabulary

Resources

• Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook (2004)
• Return A - Monthly Return of Offenses Known to Police
• Supplement to Return A - Monthly Return of Offenses Known to Police
• NIBRS Data Collection Guidelines

See Also

• Crime summary vocabulary
• Crime incident vocabulary

External Links

• NIEM 2.0 XML schema
• Global Justice XML Data Model (Global JXDM) v3.0.3 Patch 1 (ucr.xsd)
• Crime in the United States 2008
• NIEM Namespace Index v2.1
• Out of Step - NIEM and N-DEx
• UCR Wikipedia article