In the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, when a person is charged with a number of offences, is it true that only the most serious offence is counted for statistical purposes? For example, an individual commits a break and enter at a residence in order to commit a sexual assault and a rape. The most serious offence is the one for which the law provides the harshest penalty or that appears first in the classification of offences. In the example I just cited, it is the sexual assault that will be counted, not the break and enter. Is it true that you count it that way in the UCR, that is to say in the Uniform Crime Report?
On April 20th, 2010. See this statement in context.