The actual number of crimes for which the suspects were convicted, is not the method that is used by UCR.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Crime data is helpful in the formulation of theories that explains about the crime and devising social policies for facilitating control.Data must be accurate for the determination of the nature of the crime and for measuring the individual and social factors that affects criminality
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UCR consists of crimes reported and the number of arrests that are made by local law enforcement departments.The UCR methods for expressing the crime data are the following:
1. the number of crimes that are reported to the police and arrests that are made in raw figures
2. Computation of crime rates per 100,000 people .
3. Computation of changes in rates of crime over time is computed.
