RT Article
T1 A comparison of aggravated assault rate trends in rural, suburban, and urban areas using the UCR and NCS/NCVS, 1988–2005
JF Crime prevention and community safety
VO 21
IS 3
SP 181
OP 199
A1 Kaylen, Maria
A2 Pridemore, William Alex
A2 Roche, Sean Patrick
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/170031260X
AB Between the 1980s and 2000s, the USA experienced wide swings in violence rates. These swings were not experienced equally across urban, suburban, and rural areas. We employed UCR and NCS/NCVS data to compare aggravated assaults rates in rural, suburban, and urban areas between 1988 and 2005. As expected, urban aggravated assault rates tended to remain the highest. However, the crime decline was much greater for urban relative to suburban and rural areas. Further, NCS/NCVS rates were not always higher than UCR rates for a given time and location. In the latter years, UCR-NCVS rate ratios were close to one for suburban and rural areas but remained about 1.5-2.0 in urban areas. This urban-nonurban difference has implications for testing criminological theories in non-urban areas.
K1 Rural
K1 Suburban
K1 NCVS/UCR convergence
K1 Violence measurement
K1 Crime trends
K1 Suburban crime trends
K1 Rural crime trends
DO 10.1057/s41300-019-00070-w