Bullet 3What are crime rates, arrest rates, clearance rates and recidivism rates?Crime rates are based on computed numbers of crimes per some unit of population. Rates allow comparison over areas and across time. Crime rate being types of offenses committed based on population per 100,000 people. Crime reports from the (UCR) United Crime Rate offenses derived by jurisdiction, which is determine to rise as population grows. Arrest rates based on 100,000 persons in the population, for the total arrests rate there is a number of arrests for every person in the resident population of the United States. Clearance rates are the UCR/NIBRS report, which refers to the proportion of reported crimes that has been solved. Clearances are judged by basis of arrests, which once an arrest has been made and cleared for reporting purposes. Clearances are also recorded in one year which may be for offenses that occurred in previous years. There are a few exceptional clearances that are beyond control such as an offenders death or the refusal of a victim to cooperate with the prosecution after the offender as been identified. Recidivism rates the number of prisoners who after being released returns to prison or jail because they have committed another crime or violated their terms of parole or participated in any illegal activity. A study that uses four measures rearrest, reconviction, resentence to prison, and return to prison. How do crime rates relate to arrest rate? Crime rates is related to arrest rates being that through the (UCR) Uniform Crime Report program crime rates or arrest rates are taken from the law enforcement agencies which throughout a year arrest data is submitted. Arrest rate and crime rates are based on the number of offenses by population 100,000 divided by jurisdiction

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