RT Research Data
T1 Calls for Service to Police as a Means of Evaluating Crime Trends in Oklahoma City, 1986-1988
A1 Bursik, Robert J. Jr
A2 Chamlin, Mitchell B.
A2 Grasmick, Harold G.
LA English
PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
YR 1992
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840062703
AB In an effort to measure the effectiveness of crime deterrents and to estimate crime rates, calls for assistance placed to police in Oklahoma City over a two-year period were enumerated. This type of call was studied in order to circumvent problems such as "interviewer's effect" and sampling errors that occur with other methods. The telephone calls were stratified by police district, allowing for analysis on the neighborhood level to determine whether deterrence operates ecologically--that is, by neighbors informing one another about arrests which took place as a result of their calls to the police. In measuring deterrence, only the calls that concerned robbery were used. To estimate crime rates, calls were tallied on a monthly basis for 18 types of offenses: aggravated assault, robbery, rape, burglary, grand larceny, motor vehicle theft, simple assault, fraud, child molestation, other sex offenses, domestic disturbance, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, vice and drugs, petty larceny, shoplifting, kidnapping/hostage taking, and suspicious activity.
K1 Arrests
K1 Assault
K1 Auto Theft
K1 Burglary
K1 Child Abuse
K1 civil disorders
K1 crime patterns
K1 Crime Prevention
K1 Crime rates
K1 Deterrence
K1 kidnapping
K1 Larceny
K1 Neighborhoods
K1 petty theft
K1 Rape
K1 Robbery
K1 Sex Offenses
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1