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The measurement of crime [electronic resource] : victim reporting and police recording / Shannan M. Catalano.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)Publication details: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2006.Description: xiii, 216 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.88072/7 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6250.3.U5 C39 2006eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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