The measurement of crime victim reporting and police recording /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,
2006.
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| Series: | Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Table of Contents:
- Victim reporting and police recording
- The two measures of crime. The uniform crime reports. The national crime victimization survey. NCVS and UCR comparability. Counting and definitions between the NCVS and UCR
- Explaining the convergence. Changes in policing. Changes in population characteristics. Changes in the perception of crime. Changes in methodological design. Methodological change in the UCR. Methodological change in the NCVS
- Potential factors contributing to convergence. Disaggregated NCVS measures. Dependent variables. Explanatory variables. Demographic variables. Social attitudes. Design changes
- Hypotheses and analysis. Hypotheses. Analytic strategy. Stage one analysis. Stage two analysis
- The NCVS and UCR convergence. Summary of findings. Limitations and future research. Conclusion.