Persons Offenses, one UCR per _____.

• A. incident
• B. unit
• C. person
• D. case

Answer: (C)

In person offenses, the unit of analysis is the individual. The UCR counts one record for each person affected by a person offense, not per incident or per case. This victim-centered approach captures the impact on every individual involved and stays accurate when a single incident involves multiple victims. If counts were kept per incident, multiple victims could be undercounted, and comparisons across agencies would be less reliable. So the idea is that there is one UCR per person for Crimes Against Persons.