What is a major problem with relying on the ncvs

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Case: Amajor source for information about juvenile crime, both offending and victimization, would still be

OJJDP. They, however, get most of their data from other sources. Please find the Uniform Crime Report from the FBI online, and go to the most recent full year of data (2018) and look around a bit. What you might notice is that the only offender data the FBI collects (generally, but some crimes have separate collections systems, like for homicide, hate crimes, and crimes against police) are in arrest data. This is a very poor measure of juvenile offending, because most juvenile crime is so petty it wouldn't come to the attention of the police, or end in an arrest. And most crimes never end in an arrest anyway. You might also notice there are limited to no data on the age of the crime victims (again, except for the specialty systems). A better source might be the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Find this data system, and look at the methodology description for this data system please. OJJDP has a better collection of juvenile offending and victimization data, as they are all gathered for you. Go to Statistics, then the Statistical Briefing book. A lot of what you need will be on the left side menu.
only provide your answers to each numbered item.

Present these as rates, as that will allow for various comparisons that will not be possible if you present raw numbers.

Question 1. Go through the UCR arrest data (Probably best to use the Crime in the United States document and describe three patterns of juvenile arrests). Is this what you expected? Explain.

Question 2. When trying to get a picture of juvenile victimization patterns, what is a major problem with relying on the NCVS? Any other issues?

Question 3. Describe 3 patterns by age of crime victimization using NCVS data. Cite which source you used.

Question 4. Now go back to the OJJDP website- Describe 3 patterns of juvenile offending. Is this what you expected? Explain.

Question 5. OJJDP - Describe 3 patterns of juvenile victimization. Is this what you expected? Explain.

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