| Crime Index | The sum of Part I offenses reported in a given place for a given period of time.
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| crime rate | The number of Part I offenses that occur in a given area per 100,000 inhabitants living in that area.
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| Part I offenses | Crimes designated by the FBI as the most serious and compiled in terms of the number of reports made to law enforcement agencies and the number of arrests made.
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| Part II offenses | Crimes designated by the FBI as less serious than the Part I offenses and compiled in terms of the number of arrests made.
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| self-reported crime | Crime statistics compiled on the basis of self-reports by offenders.
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| Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) | The annual publication of the FBI, presenting official statistics on the rates and trends in crime in the United States.
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| victimization surveys | Surveys of the victims of crime based on interviews with representative samples of the household population.
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