Which offense classification(s) should be used to enter prescription fraud?
“Since in NIBRS all Group A offenses occurring in an incident are to be reported, care must be taken to identify all such offenses involved in an incident” (p. 37). UCR Handbook, NIBRS edition. An incident in which a fraud is perpetrated in order to obtain a controlled drug or narcotic substance may involve an offense of Fraud (26) and possibly Drug/Narcotic Violations (35A). The circumstances of the incident will dictate the type of fraud, whether an additional offense of Counterfeiting/Forgery (250) was committed, if the incident involved additional offenses of drug/narcotics violations (35A), and/or whether the incident was attempted or completed.
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