TY  - BOOK
AU  - Catalano,Shannan M.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - The measurement of crime: victim reporting and police recording 
T2  - Criminal justice
AV  - HV6250.3.U5 C39 2006
U1  - 362.88072/7 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC
KW  - National crime victimization survey report
KW  - Uniform crime reports (Washington, D.C.)
KW  - Victims of crimes surveys
KW  - United States
KW  - Criminal statistics
KW  - Victims of crimes
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3016806
ER  -