RT Article
T1 A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 18
IS 3
SP 297
OP 318
A1 Maltz, Michael D.
A2 Targonski, Joseph
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764280628
AB 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.
K1 county-level crime data
K1 Guns
K1 concealed weapons
K1 Imputation
K1 Crime Statistics
K1 UCR
DO 10.1023/A:1016060020848