Assessing the coverage and representativeness of the national incident-based reporting system

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...

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Main Author: McCormack, Philip D. (Author)
Contributors: Pattavina, April ; Tracy, Paul E.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2017, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 493-516
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Crime statistics
NIBRS-Statistik
National Incident-Based Reporting System
Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik
USA
Uniform Crime Reports