Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and the UCRIn 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. |
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any injuries they sustained and any medical care they received | 186 |
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support the argument that the NCVS underestimates these violent | 190 |
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These factors result in a large case selection bias in | 235 |
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adding screening questions that did result in increases in estimated | 256 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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Fréquemment cités
Page 64 - Aggravated assault. — An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.
Page 64 - The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.
Page 64 - This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. Simple assaults are excluded. Burglary-breaking or entering — The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.
Page 65 - Arson. Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc.
Page 87 - Sex offenses of a commercialized nature, such as prostitution, keeping a bawdy house, procuring, or transporting women for immoral purposes. Attempts are included. Sex offenses (except forcible rape, prostitution, and commercialized vice) — Statutory rape and offenses against chastity, common decency, morals, and the like.
Page 64 - Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another. Deaths caused by negligence, attempts to kill, assaults to kill, suicides, accidental deaths, and justifiable homicides are excluded. Justifiable homicides are limited to: (1) the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty; and (2) the killing of a felon by a private citizen...
Page 87 - Drug abuse violations-State and local offenses relating to the unlawful possession. sale. use. growing. and manufacturing of narcotic drugs. The following drug categories are specified: Opium or cocaine and their derivatives (morphine. heroin. codeine); marijuana; synthetic narcotics-manufactured narcotics that can cause true addiction (demerol. methadone); and dangerous non-narcotic drugs (barbiturates. benzedrine).
Page 64 - Justifiable homicides are limited to: (1) the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty; and (2) the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen, b.
Page 86 - Intentional perversion of the truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and the UCR Cambridge Studies in Criminology |
| Rédacteurs | James P. Lynch, Lynn A. Addington |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1139462628, 9781139462624 |
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