Loftin and McDowall also mention that to understand what the Uniform Crime Report says, and to do so accurately, you need to make sure you understand the data being presented to them . That said, how might the Uniform Crime Report be superior or inferior to victimization surveys and self-report data? The Uniform Crime Report, according to Balkan (2015), although it does not focus on white collar crimes, instead focuses on the crime of the first part, such as murder, and also on most of the crimes of the second part: in reality the National Crime Victimization Survey excludes serious crimes such as first-party crimes. That said, the Uniform Crime Report, as many would agree, is more inferior to other crime reporting alternatives. Balkan (2015) points out that the National Crime Victimization Survey will ask additional questions to determine offender characteristics such as age, gender, race, and so on.