UNIFORM CRIME
REPORTING Definitions
The definitions listed hereafter are taken from the
Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Handbook and used to
classify the criminal offenses listed above.
Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter: the willful
(non-negligent) killing
of one human being by another.
Manslaughter by Negligence: The
killing of another person through gross negligence.
Sex Offenses, Forcible
Any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against
that
person's will; or not forcibly or against the person's will where the
victim
is incapable of giving consent.
Forcible Rape: The carnal knowledge of a person, forcibly
and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly or against the
person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because
of his/her temporary
or permanent mental or physical incapacity or because of his/her youth.
Forcible Sodomy: Oral or anal sexual intercourse with another
person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly
against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving
consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or
permanent mental or physical incapacity.
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Sexual Assault With An Object: The use of an object or
instrument to unlawfully
penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of the body of
another
person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly or
against
the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent
because
of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or
physical
incapacity.
Forcible Fondling: The touching of the private body parts of
another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or
against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving
consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or
permanent mental incapacity.
Sexual Offenses, Nonforcible
Unlawful, nonforcible sexual intercourse.
Incest: Nonforcible sexual intercourse between persons who are
related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited
by law.
Statutory Rape: Nonforcible sexual intercourse with a
person who is under the statutory age of consent.
Robbery: The taking or attempting to take anything of value
from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or
threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.
Aggravated Assault: An unlawful attack by one person upon
another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily
injury.
This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or
by
means likely to produce health or great bodily harm. (It is not
necessary
that injury from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife, or other
weapon
is used which could and probably would result in serious personal
injury
if the crime were successfully completed.)
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Burglary: The unlawful entry into a structure to
commit a felony or theft. For reporting purposes this definition
includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony;
breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking;
safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.
Motor Vehicle Theft: The theft or attempted theft of a motor
vehicle. (Classify as motor vehicle theft all cases where automobiles
are
taken by persons not having lawful access even though the vehicles are
later
abandoned including joy riding.)
Arson: Any willful or malicious
burning or attempt
to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling, house, public
building,
motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc.
Liquor Law Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances
prohibiting:
the manufacture, sale, transporting, furnishing, possessing of
intoxicating
liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating a
still;
furnishing liquor to a minor or intemperate person; using a vehicle for
illegal
transportation of liquor, drinking on a train or public conveyance; and
all
attempts to commit any of the aforementioned. (Drunkenness and driving
under
the influence are not included in this definition.)
Drug Abuse Violations: Violations of state and local laws
relating
to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing, and
making
of narcotic drugs. The relevant substances include: opium or cocaine
and
their derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine); marijuana; synthetic
narcotics
(demerol, methadones); and dangerous nonnarcotic drugs (barbiturates,
benzedrine).
Weapons Law Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances
dealing with weapons offenses, regulatory in nature, such as:
manufacture,
sale, or possession of deadly weapons, carrying deadly weapons,
(concealed
or openly); furnishing deadly weapons to minors; aliens possessing
deadly
weapons; and all attempts to commit any of aforementioned.
3/2005
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