CRIM 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Victimless Crime, Homicide, Dependent And Independent Variables
12 Feb 2018
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Measures of crime are important for many criminal justice research purposes. Because shr is incident-based system, investigators can use shr data to conduct descriptive and explanatory studies of individual events: most potential errors in shr are due to recording and record keeping practices. The national incident-based reporting system: most recent development in police based measures at national level is effort by fbi and bureau of. Nibrs and criteria for measurement quality: nibrs data hold the promise of being more reliable. Community victimization surveys: following the initial development of victim survey methods in the late 1960s, the census bureau completed a series of city-level surveys they were discontinued for various reasons. Monitoring the future: since 1975 the national institute on drug abuse has sponsored an annual survey of high school seniors, survey, called monitor the future, intended to monitor the behaviours, attitudes, and values of young people.
