Measurement Error in County-Level UCR Data

Maltz and Targonski (2002) have provided an important service by disaggregating the county level data to help researchers examine measurement errors in the county level data, but their conclusion that county-level crime data, as they are currently constituted, should not be used, especially in polic...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lott, John R. (Author)
Contributors: Whitley, John
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2003
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2003, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-198
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:

MARC

LEADER 00000naa a22000002 4500
001 1764280636
003 DE-627
005 20210725061654.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 210725s2003 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1023/A:1023054204615  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1764280636 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1764280636 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 2,1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |a Lott, John R.  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Measurement Error in County-Level UCR Data 
264 1 |c 2003 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Maltz and Targonski (2002) have provided an important service by disaggregating the county level data to help researchers examine measurement errors in the county level data, but their conclusion that county-level crime data, as they are currently constituted, should not be used, especially in policy studies is not justified. All data has measurement error, presumably even their measures of this error. Unfortunately, however, Maltz and Targonski provide no systematic test for how bad the data are. Their graphs obscure both the small number of counties affected, that these are rural counties, and that just because some of the population in a county is not represented in calculating the crime rate, that is not the same thing as showing that the reported number is in error. Nor do they provide evidence for the more important issue of whether there is a systematic bias in the data. The evidence provided here indicates right-to-carry laws continue to produce substantial reductions in violent crime rates when states with the greatest measurement error are excluded. In fact, restricting the sample results in somewhat larger reductions in murders and robberies, but smaller reductions in aggravated assaults. 
650 4 |a systematic biases 
650 4 |a county level UCR crime data 
650 4 |a measurement error 
700 1 |a Whitley, John  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Journal of quantitative criminology  |d Getzville, NY : HeinOnline, 1985  |g 19(2003), 2, Seite 185-198  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)320578003  |w (DE-600)2017241-2  |w (DE-576)104082321  |x 1573-7799  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:19  |g year:2003  |g number:2  |g pages:185-198 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023054204615  |x Resolving-System  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
856 4 0 |u http://link.springer.com/openurl/pdf?id=doi:10.1023/A:1023054204615  |x Verlag  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
935 |a mkri 
936 u w |d 19  |j 2003  |e 2  |h 185-198 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 3957454816 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1764280636 
LOK |0 005 20210725061654 
LOK |0 008 210725||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 035   |a (DE-2619)KrimDok#2021-07-24#B59B9E2FB2ADAEE9BBB71F1F37FF376514081A06 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-2619  |c DE-627  |d DE-2619 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-2619 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a zota 
ORI |a SA-MARC-krimdoka001.raw