Human Trafficking Offenses
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program helps in overcoming the significant challenges to provide policymakers with an understanding of the prevalence of human trafficking as well as nature and distribution of the crime. National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) significantly increases officers’ ability to record data about a specific incident, which makes it easy to understand the crime.UCR gives a tally of incidents whereby offices report arrest in a specific incident. Additionally, it does not provide information about the simple assault which mostly occur in domestic violence offence. NIBRS, on the other hand, gives information of each incident reported to police, for instance, the relationship between the victims and offender injuries at the incident scene (Addington, 2019). Further, NIBRS requires that officers should report multiple victims, offences and offenders which makes it easy to compare and analyze multiple incidents. Therefore, there are unique challenges on the crime of human trafficking on both UCR and NIBRS program, for instance, the fact that human trafficking is mobile and consists of serial incident thus making it co-occur with other numerous offences.
Reference
Addington, L. A. (2019). NIBRS as the New Normal: What Fully Incident-Based Crime Data Mean for Researchers. In Handbook on Crime and Deviance (pp. 21-33). Springer, Cham.