# # # Offenses in Uniform Crime Reporting The Uniform Crime Reporting Program classifies offenses into two groups, Part I and Part II crimes. Each month, contributing agencies submit information on the number of Part I offenses (Crime Index) known to law enforcement; those offenses cleared by arrest or exceptional means; and the age, sex, and race of persons arrested. Contributors provide only arrest data for Part II offenses. The Part I offenses, those that comprise the Crime Index due to their seriousness and frequency, are defined below: Criminal homicide — a.) Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another. Deaths caused by negligence, attempts to kill, assaults to kill, suicides, and accidental deaths are excluded. The Program classifies justifiable homicides separately and limits the definition to: (1) the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty; or (2) the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen. b.) Manslaughter by negligence: the killing of another person through gross negligence. Traffic fatalities are excluded. While manslaughter by negligence is a Part I crime, it is not included in the Crime Index. Forcible rape — The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Rapes by force and attempts or assaults to rape regardless of the age of the victim are included. Statutory offenses (no force used—victim under age of consent) are excluded. 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 death or great bodily harm. Simple assaults are excluded. Burglary (breaking or entering) — The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft. Attempted forcible entry is included. Larceny — theft (except motor vehicle theft)—The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another. Examples are thefts of bicycles or automobile accessories, shoplifting, pocket-picking, or the stealing of any property or article which is not taken by force and violence or by fraud. Attempted larcenies are included. Embezzlement, confidence games, forgery, worthless checks, etc., are excluded. Motor vehicle theft — The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. A motor vehicle is self-propelled and runs on the surface and not on rails. Motorboats, construction equipment, airplanes, and farming equipment are specifically excluded from this category. 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. The Part II offenses, for which only arrest data are collected, are defined below: Other assaults (simple)—Assaults and attempted assaults where no weapons are used and which do not result in serious or aggravated injury to the victim. Forgery and counterfeiting — Making, altering, uttering, or possessing, with intent to defraud, anything false in the semblance of that which is true. Attempts are included. Fraud — Fraudulent conversion and obtaining money or property by false pretenses. Confidence games and bad checks, except forgeries and counterfeiting, are included. Embezzlement — Misappropriation or misapplication of money or property entrusted to one's care, custody, or control. Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing — Buying, receiving, and possessing stolen property, including attempts. Vandalism — Willful or malicious destruction, injury, disfigurement, or defacement of any public or private property, real or personal, without consent of the owner or persons having custody or control. Attempts are included. Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc. — All violations of regulations or statutes controlling the carrying, using, possessing, furnishing, and manufacturing of deadly weapons or silencers. Attempts are included. Prostitution and commercialized vice — Sex offenses of a commercialized nature, such as prostitution, keeping a bawdy house, procuring, or transporting women for immoral purposes. Attempts are included. Sex offenses (except forcible rape, prostitution, and commercialized vice) — Statutory rape and offenses against chastity, common decency, morals, and the like. Attempts are included. Drug abuse violations — State and/or local offenses relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, and manufacturing of narcotic drugs. The following drug categories are specified: opium or cocaine and their derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine); marijuana; synthetic narcotics—manufactured narcotics that can cause true addiction (demerol, methadone); and dangerous nonnarcotic drugs (barbiturates, benzedrine). Gambling — Promoting, permitting, or engaging in illegal gambling. Offenses against the family and children — Nonsupport, neglect, desertion, or abuse of family and children. Attempts are included. Driving under the influence — Driving or operating any vehicle or common carrier while drunk or under the influence of liquor or narcotics. Liquor laws — State and/or local liquor law violations except drunkenness and driving under the influence. Federal violations are excluded. Drunkenness — Offenses relating to drunkenness or intoxication. Driving under the influence is excluded. Disorderly conduct — Breach of the peace. Vagrancy — Begging, loitering, etc. Includes prosecutions under the charge of suspicious person. All other offenses — All violations of state and/or local laws except those listed above and traffic offenses. Suspicion — No specific offense; suspect released without formal charges being placed. Curfew and loitering laws (persons under age 18) — Offenses relating to violations of local curfew or loitering ordinances where such laws exist. Runaways (persons under age 18) — Limited to juveniles taken into protective custody under provisions of local statutes. 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