RT Article
T1 Assessing the coverage and representativeness of the national incident-based reporting system
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 63
IS 4
SP 493
OP 516
A1 McCormack, Philip D.
A2 Pattavina, April
A2 Tracy, Paul E.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1577363043
AB This article examines the coverage of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) as of 2013. We use NIBRS, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), and Supplementary Homicide Reports to assess the population coverage and index crime coverage of NIBRS. We also examine the correspondence of crime rates between the UCR and agencies that do and do not participate in NIBRS. We found that NIBRS covers 29.3% of the U.S. population and 28% of UCR index crimes. We also found that the crime rates in NIBRS jurisdictions are appreciably lower than jurisdictions that do not participate in NIBRS. As of 2013, therefore, NIBRS data are not representative of the U.S. population, crime counts, or crime rates.
K1 National Incident-Based Reporting System
K1 Uniform Crime Reports
K1 Crime statistics
K1 Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik
K1 USA
K1 NIBRS-Statistik
DO 10.1177/0011128717694595