Let’s first cover the criminal offenses we must collect, classify, and count crime for and then we will review the geographic locations in which these crimes must occur for them to be reportable. The criminal offenses are listed below. Click on each item to learn more about it.
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Criminal Offenses that must be reported
Criminal Offenses
+ Criminal Homicide
Murder/Nonnegligent manslaughter and negligent manslaughter.
+ Sex Offenses
There are two classifications of sex offenses: forcible and nonforcible. A forcible sex offense includes a broad scope of offenses, including forcible rape, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling. Non-forcible sex offenses are much more limited in scope and only include incest and statutory rape.
+ Burglary
The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.
+ Motor Vehicle Theft
The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ Aggravated Assault
An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.
+ Dating Violence
Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. Includes threats of, or use of physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, economic or psychological action to influence or control the victim.
+ Domestic Violence
Violence committed by: a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim; a person with whom the victim shares a child in common; a person who is co-habitating with or has co-habitated with the victim. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.
+ Stalking
Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others, or suffer substantial emotional distress.