Transcription of TEXAS CRIME ANALYSIS
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Chapter2 TTEXASEXASCCRIMERIMEAANALYSISNALYSISI ndex Crimes in TEXAS 2000-2015 CRIMEMEASUREMENTSC rime affects every Texan in some fashion. To gaina measurement of CRIME trends, TEXAS participatesin the Uniform CRIME Reporting (UCR) makes possible the ANALYSIS of CRIME trendsprimarily through the CRIME CRIME IndexTo track the variations in CRIME , the UCR data col-lection program uses a statistical summary toolreferred to as the CRIME Index. Rather than collect-ing reports of all crimes that were committed in aparticular year, UCR collects the reports of sevenindex crimes. The crimes in this group are all seri-ous, either by their very nature or because of thefrequency with which they occur, and present acommon enforcement problem to police agencies. Crimes within this index can be further categorizedas violent crimes, which include murder, rape,robbery and aggravated assault, or as propertycrimes, which consist of burglary, larceny-theft, andmotor vehicle theft.
Index Crimes in Texas 2000-2015 CRIME MEASUREMENTS Crime affects every Texan in some fashion. To gain a measurement of crime trends, Texas participates in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program.
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