Understanding crime statistics : revisiting the divergence of the NCVS and UCR / edited by James P. Lynch, Lynn A. Addington.

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9780511270253
0511270259
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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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 the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which have been the two major indicators of the level and of the change in level of crime in the United States for the past 30 years. This book examines recent changes in the UCR and the NCVS and assesses the effect these have had on divergence. By focusing on divergence, the authors encourage readers to think about how these data systems filter the reality of crime. Understanding Crime Statistics builds on this discussion of divergence to explain how the two data systems can be used as they were intended - in complementary rather than competitive ways""--Publisher's description

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which have been the two major indicators of the level and of the change in level of crime in the United States for the past 30 years. This book examines recent changes in the UCR and the NCVS and assesses the effect these have had on divergence. By focusing on divergence, the authors encourage readers to think about how these data systems filter the reality of crime. Understanding Crime Statistics builds on this discussion of divergence to explain how the two data systems can be used as they were intended - in complementary rather than competitive ways""--Publisher's description

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