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Understanding crime statistics : revisiting the divergence of the NCVS and UCR /
"In Understanding Crime Statistics, Lynch and Addington draw on the work of leading experts on U.S. crime statistics to provide much-needed research on appropriate use of this data. Specifically, the contributors explore the issues surrounding divergence in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in criminology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview of the two national measures of U.S. crime
- Introduction to the National Crime Victimization Survey
- Introduction to the Uniform Crime Reporting program
- What is convergence and what do we know about it?
- Sources of divergence in the NCVS
- Methodological change in the NCVS and the effect on convergence
- Series victimizations and divergence
- Exploring differences in estimates of visits to emergency rooms for injuries from assaults using the NCVS and NHAMCS
- Sources of divergence in the UCR
- Using NIBRS to study methodological sources of divergence between the UCR and NCVS
- Explaining the divergence between UCR and NCVS aggravated assault trends
- Missing UCR data and divergence of the NCVS and UCR trends.