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The measurement of crime : victim reporting and police recording
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- Creator
- Shannan M. Catalano
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781593321550, 9781593322557, 1593322550, 1593321554
- OCLC
- ocm70334975, ocn145507167
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
- 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