measurement of crime
Subtitle: victim reporting and police recording
By: Shannan M. Catalano.
Series: Criminal justice; Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781593321550
Subjects: National crime victimization survey report; Uniform crime reports (Washington, D.C.); Victims of crimes surveys -- United States; Criminal statistics -- United States; Victims of crimes -- United States -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Victim reporting and police recording; title: 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; title: 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; title: Potential factors contributing to convergence. Disaggregated NCVS measures. Dependent variables. Explanatory variables. Demographic variables. Social attitudes. Design changes; title: Hypotheses and analysis. Hypotheses. Analytic strategy. Stage one analysis. Stage two analysis; title: The NCVS and UCR convergence. Summary of findings. Limitations and future research. Conclusion.