This information is presented by the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), based on its analysis of NIBRS data. The analyses focus on the co-occurrence of two or more distinctive offense types collected in NIBRS by agency size. The tables and figures reported indicate what types of criminal events are most likely to involve the commission of multiple types of offenses and how frequently specific offense combinations occur within a single incident. An example provided of such an event is when a homicide occurs during a burglary. In 2016, approximately 5.2 million criminal incidents were recorded by law enforcement agencies and reported to the NIBRS. An estimated 12 percent of these criminal events Involved multiple offenses. The major sections of this report address the characteristics of incidents recorded in NIBRS, the prevalence and nature of multiple-offense incidents, and which offenses frequently co-occur within a single criminal event. 7 tables and 3 figures
Multiple-Offense Incidents in the National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2016
NCJ Number
254730
Date Published
October 2019
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This report presents estimates of the volume and nature of criminal incidents in which two or more distinctive offense types were committed in a single criminal event, based on the 2016 crime incident data submitted to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) by general purpose law enforcement agencies.
Abstract