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The UCR and the NCVS Differ in Several Respects

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The UCR and the NCVS differ in several respects. Most importantly,


A) the UCR estimates the rate of criminal acts reported to the police, whereas the NCVS estimates the amount of personal victimizations annually.
B) the NCVS allows estimates for the "dark figure" of crime, while the UCR does not.
C) the NCVS interviews actual victims, whereas the UCR takes only the perspective of the police into consideration.
D) All of the above are important differences between these two sources of crime data.

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