Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics
Why the UCR Diverges From the NCS
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Why is the Victimization of Young Latino Adults Higher in New Areas of Settlement?
We used multilevel data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to identify factors that account for differences in risk of violent victimization among young Latino adults in new and traditional se...
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American Terrorism and Extremist Crime Data Sources and Selectivity Bias: An Investigation Focusing on Homicide Events Committed by Far-Right Extremists
This paper examines the reliability of the methods used to capture homicide events committed by far-right extremists in a number of open source terrorism data sources. Although the number of research studies t...
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Introduction
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Identifying and Addressing Response Errors in Self-Report Surveys
Much of the data used by criminologists is generated by self-report surveys of victims and offenders. Although both sources share a common reliance on responses to questions, little overlap exists between the ...
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Editorial Introduction
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Exploring the Effects of Changes in Design on the Analytical Uses of the NCVS Data
In 1992 changes were made in the design of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to improve its accuracy and utility. Little is known about the effect of the redesign on the analytic uses of the NCVS....
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Use of the BIS Monitor to Detect Onset of Naturally Occurring Sleep
Objectives.Inadvertent sleep episodes are a recognizedcomplication of sleep deprivation. Although such events can be lifethreatening, no system currently exists to detect and prevent sleeponset. Because sleep sh...
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Leptin Reduces Body Weight Gain in Neonatal Rats
Leptin (OB protein) elicits a neuroendocrine response to starvation and states of nutritional abundance to stabilize the proportion of body fat. Leptin has dramatic effects on food intake and energy expenditur...
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The decomposition and graphical analysis of crime and sanctions data: A cross-national application
This article attempts to illustrate the utility of isoquant map analysis from the field of production theory in microeconomics for the analysis of criminal justice data. Cross-national comparisons of aggregate...
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Offense seriousness scaling: An alternative to scenario methods
The use of crime scenarios in sample surveys is the principal method for assessing public valuations of crime seriousness. The adequacy of this method is heavily dependent upon the a priori assumptions of the ...
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Summary and Conclusions
The preparation of this monograph was occasioned by comment in the press that the Uniform Crime Reports Index and the National Crime Survey presented conflicting information on trends in crime during the 1970s...
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Describing the Uniform Crime Report and the National Crime Survey
Much of the discussion that follows assumes some knowledge of the organization and procedures of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Crime Survey (NCS). For readers not familiar with these data co...
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The Importance of Nonuniformities in Measurement for the Appearance of Divergence
Once we have applied the adjustments that appear useful for dealing with procedural anomalies and definitional incongruities between the NCS and UCR, the two series correspond much more closely. Nonetheless, m...
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Why the NCS and the UCR Crime Index Appear Discrepant as Indicators of Trends in Crime
The correct but imprecise belief that the NCS and the UCR measure trends in crime has helped foster the impressions of discrepancies between the two series. Given that both systems measure “Crime,” the expecta...
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Routine activity and victimization at work
This paper introduces the idea of “domain-specific” models of victimization as a means of improving the fit between theoretical concepts in routine activity theory and available data. Peoples' activity and the...
