A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data

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County-level crime data have major gaps, and the imputation schemes for filling in the gaps are inadequate and inconsistent. Such data were used in a recent study of guns and crime without considering the errors resulting from imputation. This note describes the errors and how they may have affected...

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Autor principal: Maltz, Michael D. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Targonski, Joseph
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2002
En: Journal of quantitative criminology
Año: 2002, Volumen: 18, Número: 3, Páginas: 297-318
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Palabras clave:
county-level crime data
Guns
concealed weapons
Imputation
Crime Statistics
UCR
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Sumario:County-level crime data have major gaps, and the imputation schemes for filling in the gaps are inadequate and inconsistent. Such data were used in a recent study of guns and crime without considering the errors resulting from imputation. This note describes the errors and how they may have affected this study. Until improved methods of imputing county-level crime data are developed, tested, and implemented, they should not be used, especially in policy studies.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1023/A:1016060020848