NCJ Number
122713
Date Published
1990
Length
363 pages
Annotation
This report provides Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data users with arrests statistics related to the age and race of arrestees. The statistics are tabulated for Crime Index, each Crime Index offenses (murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft), violent crime, property crime, arson, and selected Part II offenses (forgery and counterfeiting, fraud, embezzlement, stolen property, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug abuse violations, and gambling) for each year between 1965 and 1988.
Abstract
An age-specific arrest rate refers to the number of arrests per 100,000 people belonging to a prescribed age group. The report provides the computational procedures used to derive age-specific arrest rates as well as the methodology used to compute the average age of the arrestees. Because the average age of arrestees may reflect non-criminal factors, any shift in the average age of arrestees should not be immediately associated with a change in criminal pattern. A race-specific arrest rate, relating to the number of arrests made per 100,000 people belonging to a prescribed race, represents the portion of the population that contributed race statistics relating to the given offenses. The historical reporting patterns of UCR arrest data has resulted in a lower population coverage for race statistics than for age statistics.