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About this book
Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBIs Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to the police and arrests from local and state jurisdictions throughout the country. The National Crime Victimization Survey, a general population survey designed to cover the extent, nature, and consequences of criminal victimization, has been conducted annually since the early1970s. This workshop was designed to consider similarities and differences in the methodological problems encountered by the survey and criminal justice research communities and what might be the best focus for the research community. In addition to comparing and contrasting the methodological issues associated with self-report surveys and official records, the workshop explored methods for obtaining accurate self-reports on sensitive questions about crime events, estimating crime and victimization in rural counties and townships and developing unbiased prevalence and incidence rates for rate events among population subgroups.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
- COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE
- COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Measuring Crime and Crime Victimization: Methodological Issues
- 3 Comparison of Self-Report and Official Data for Measuring Crime
- Appendix A Workshop Agenda
- Appendix B List of Workshop Participants
- COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE