UCR, NIBRS and NCVS Programs Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are programs or systems that have been developed to collect and report on national crime rates in the United States. UCR is a cooperative initiative for law enforcement agencies across the nation to provide report on national crime statistics. On the other hand, NIBRS is a program designed to provide detailed information regarding crime incidents to the general public, researchers, students of crime, law enforcement agencies and personnel, and governmental planners. NCVS is a program by the Bureau of Justice Statistics which provides crime reports based on surveys by the United States Census Bureau. These programs have several similarities and differences as they focus on gathering and providing reports on United States' crime rates.

The major similarity between these programs is their focus on collecting and reporting crime reports or statistics. These three programs generate important information regarding various aspects of crime problem across the United States ("The Nation's Two Crime Measures," 2014). While these programs or systems utilize varying methods to conduct their work, they produce complementary information that helps in detailed understanding of U.S. crime problem. Actually, these...

The Uniform Crime Reports collect crime data from reports by law enforcement agencies and records of individual crime incidents conveyed directly or through centralized agencies to the Federal Bureau Investigation. These monthly reports are usually subjected to thorough evaluation to ensure they are reasonable, accurate, and free from errors. Moreover, the program compares the monthly reports to past submissions in order to detect strange fluctuations in crime reports. In contrast, the National Crime Victimization Survey focuses on crime data on the nature and frequency of rape and other sexual offenses, individual larceny, assault, motor vehicle theft, robbery, and household burglary. This data is collected through interviews conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics on a nationwide representative sample of nearly 170,000 individuals aged 12 or more years across American households. Unlike the other programs, NCVS gathers reported and unreported offenses as well as relevant reasons on individual and household crimes that took place 6 months before BJS interviews. Since this program also…