NCJ Number
173960
Date Published
1998
Length
433 pages
Annotation
This report presents statistics on index crimes, crimes cleared, arrests, juvenile female crime, and law enforcement personnel for 1997, based on information from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Abstract
The first section explains the history and design of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The subsequent section notes that the Crime Index total was estimated at 13.2 million offenses in 1997, a decline of 2 percent from the 1996 total. This decline represented the lowest annual serious crime count since 1985 and the sixth consecutive annual decline. Twelve percent of the total Crime Index offenses were violent crimes, and 88 percent were property crimes. Police agencies made an estimated 2.7 million arrests for index crimes in 1997 and recorded a 22-percent clearance rate for the total Crime Index offenses. Juvenile female arrests have increased at a faster rate than those of juvenile males since 1987. The law enforcement community employed an average of 2.5 full-time officers and a total of 3.4 officers and civilians for every 1,000 inhabitants as of October 31, 1997. Tables, figures, and appended methodological information and directory of State Uniform Crime Reporting Programs