Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR)
Cyber-related violation of incident, category
Cyber-related violation refers to a criminal violation in which a computer or the internet was the target of the crime, or the instrument used to commit the crime.
Incident refers to the occurrence of one (or more) criminal offence(s) during one single, distinct event, regardless of the number of victims. If there are multiple victims or multiple accused persons, the offences must occur at the same location and at the same time if they are to be included within the same incident. The incident count will normally be lower than the victim count due to incidents involving multiple victims.
The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:
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