RT Article
T1 The National Incident-Based Reporting System: Research and Policy Applications
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 15
IS 2
SP 119
OP 149
A1 Maxfield, Michael G.
LA English
YR 1999
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764275640
AB The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) offers a new source ofdata for measuring crime. Though far from national in coverage, NIBRS datacan address research and policy questions outside the scope of the UniformCrime Reports and the National Crime Victimization Survey. Comparisons ofthe three sources of crime data are presented, with particular emphasis onwhat can be learned from incident-based police data that cannot be learnedfrom other sources. Like all data on crime, the NIBRS is subject to variousproblems with validity and measurement error. Two general categories of suchproblems are discussed: those evident in the design of the NIBRS and thoselinked to more general issues in the organizational production of data.
K1 measurement error
K1 Validity
K1 NCVS
K1 UCR
K1 NIBRS
DO 10.1023/A:1007518620521