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This Alberta Official Statistic describes the Crime Severity Index for Canada and Provinces, 1998 to 2014. Crime Severity Index is a measure of the seriousness of police-reported crime. It covers all Criminal Code violations including traffic, as well as drug violations and violations of all Federal Statutes. Each criminal offence is weighted based on sentences given. The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS), in co-operation with the policing community, collects police-reported crime statistics through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey. The UCR Survey was designed to measure the incidence of crime in Canadian society and its characteristics. UCR data reflect reported crime that has been substantiated by police. Information collected by the survey includes the number of criminal incidents, the clearance status of those incidents and persons-charged information. The UCR Survey produces a continuous historical record of crime and traffic statistics reported by every police agency in Canada since 1962. In 1988, a new version of the survey (UCR2) was created, which is referred to as the "incident-based" survey. It captures microdata on characteristics of incidents, victims and accused. Data from the UCR Survey provide key information for crime analysis, resource planning and program development for the policing community. Municipal and provincial governments use the data to aid decisions about the distribution of police resources, definitions of provincial standards and for comparisons with other departments and provinces. To the federal government, the UCR survey provides information for policy and legislative development, evaluation of new legislative initiatives, and international comparisons. To the public, the UCR survey offers information on the nature and extent of police-reported crime and crime trends in Canada. As well, media, academics and researchers use these data to examine specific issues about crime.

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Alberta Official Statistic Visualization	PDF		https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/cd180a7a-ecd5-4602-8eb1-06d7898fa8cd/resource/091a6fae-8046-4437-8558-f683f05dac22/download/09032015crimeseverityindexonepage.pdf
CSV	CSV		https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/cd180a7a-ecd5-4602-8eb1-06d7898fa8cd/resource/54767e53-1da1-4fc7-8339-50c8172bb615/download/stccrimeseverityindexcsvv2.02015-07-30.csv
Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata)	HTML		https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/cd180a7a-ecd5-4602-8eb1-06d7898fa8cd

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