Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Crimes Scenario

From the information collected from the victim, the offender did various offenses with one leading to another. The first crime the man committed is burglary. This is where a person enters into someone’s property illegally and with malicious intentions. The evidence to support this claim is the fact that the man got into the lady’s car without any permission. The man also committed larceny which is theft of property. When the man, ordered the victim to get off all her money, he committed larceny. The man went forward to drive the car away which is also a form of theft.

The uniform crime report is a program that provides a nationwide view of all crimes and especially from the submission statistics and the overall gauge of crimes (Wilson, 2009). The hierarchy of crimes on the other hand is a classification of crime with respect to their position in the UCR. In this case, the crime with the highest hierarchy is larceny. The hierarchy is much applicable when there is multiple crimes like burglary and larceny. The criminal court would highly consider larceny as the major crime while the other might be ignored. Index crimes are the eight main crimes among which are robberies, rape murder among others which are used by the FBI to make the annual crime index.

The hierarchy rule considers the main crime and ignores all the others and therefore the offender is liable only to one crime. From the statistical data that was analyzed from the conference, the report is not consistent because it leaves out several instances which were supposed to be captured in the analysis (Wilson, 2009). The conference is seen to go beyond the jurisdiction of the sergeant because factors like age are not considered. The jurisdiction usually set boundaries to the nature of people who are found guilty (Wilson, 2009).

Reference

Wilson, J. K. (2009). The Praeger handbook of victimology. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger.