RT Article
T1 Using the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to Test Estimates of Arrestee and Offender Characteristics
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 15
IS 2
SP 207
OP 224
A1 Chilton, Roland
A2 Jarvis, John Wesley 1780-1840
LA English
YR 1999
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764275659
AB National-Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) information for 1993 iscompared with two other sets of homicide data to assess the acuracy ofprocedures for estimating age-, sex-, and race-specific arrest counts fromtraditional Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data. The simultaneous age, race, andsex characteristics of offenders provided in the NIBRS arrest and offender segmentsare compared with estimates of the same characteristics derived from summaryUCR arrest data. The results suggest that using UCR marginal totals toestimate arrest counts by race and sex produces reasonably accurateestimates of the number of black and nonblack male arrests for murder andother offenses. Estimates of arrests of females by race and sex are lessaccurate, probably because of the relatively small number of arrests ofwomen and girls. Estimating male arrest counts for specific age groups alsoproduces reasonably accurate estimates. The results suggest that previousresearch employing such estimates may have been misleading in the estimatesof female arrests by race but accurate in the estimates of male arrests byrace. Although the use of summary UCR-based estimates in futurecross-sectional research will become increasingly unnecessary as the NIBRSreplaces the current UCR program, time series research designs on arrest andcrime trends will continue to require estimates.
K1 age, race, sex and crime reports
K1 Uniform Crime Report program
K1 Offender characteristics
K1 arrestee characteristics
K1 National Incident-Based Reporting System
DO 10.1023/A:1007578906408