Source(s)

United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. (September 2009). Crime in the United States, 2008. Retrieved Oct 7, 2009, from http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/index.html.

Definitions

Includes nonnegligent manslaughter. This figure only includes crimes reported to a law enforcement agency. The FBI�s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines murder and nonnegligent manslaughter as the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another. The classification of this offense is based solely on police investigation as opposed to the determination of a court, medical examiner, coroner, jury, or other judicial body. The UCR Program does not include the following situations in this offense classification: deaths caused by negligence, suicide, or accident; justifiable homicides; and attempts to murder or assaults to murder, which are scored as aggravated assaults. Crime data is reported by the FBI�s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by volume and as a rate per 100,000 inhabitants, where the probability of being a victim is derived by taking the total number of crimes reported in a location and dividing it by the location's population. Denominators do not include non-residents of the specific location.

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Odds you'll see: 1 in 4.26; 14.5; 143; 5,230; 433,200

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