Estimating crime rates from police reports and victim surveys : progressive convergence in time series analyses /

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Author / Creator:Ansari, Sami, 1966-
Imprint:El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2013.
Description:ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Criminal justice: recent scholarship
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9127110
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ISBN:9781593325886 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1593325886 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • UCR and NCVS : historical and methodological review
  • Conception, exploration, and explanation of convergence between the UCR and NCVS : analytical framework and major hypotheses
  • Data, measurement, and analytic strategy
  • Are the UCR and NCVS converging?
  • Modeling convergence : investigation of factors
  • Appendix A: Comparison between the UCR and NCVS in research
  • Appendix B: List of variables explored and used in the study
  • Appendix C: Stationarity check and transformation
  • References
  • Indexes.