If you wanted to measure the number of date and acquaintance rapes that happen in this country and use UCR data as your source,what is likely to be your most significant problem?
A) generalizability
B) validity
C) reliability
D) applicability

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UCR data only collects crimes that have been reported to law enforcement, which means that many cases of date and acquaintance rape that were not reported to police would not be included in the data. This limits the validity of the data as a measure of the true prevalence of these types of crimes.

If You Wanted to Measure the Number of Date and Acquaintance