Estimating crime rates from police reports and victim surveys
Subtitle: progressive convergence in time series analyses
By: Sami Ansari
Series: Criminal justice: recent scholarship
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Published: 2013
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781593325886
Subjects: Criminal statistics; Police reports; Victims of crimes; Victims of crimes surveys
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: UCR and NCVS : historical and methodological review; title: Conception, exploration, and explanation of convergence between the UCR and NCVS : analytical framework and major hypotheses; title: Data, measurement, and analytic strategy; title: Are the UCR and NCVS converging?; title: Modeling convergence : investigation of factors; title: Appendix A: Comparison between the UCR and NCVS in research; title: Appendix B: List of variables explored and used in the study; title: Appendix C: Stationarity check and transformation; title: References; title: Indexes.