Assessing the Coverage and Representativeness of the National Incident-Based Reporting System

This article examines the coverage of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) as of 2013. We use NIBRS, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), and Supplementary Homicide Reports to assess the population coverage and index crime coverage of NIBRS. We also examine the correspondence of crime rates...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Crime and delinquency 2017-04, Vol.63 (4), p.493-516
Hauptverfasser:	McCormack, Philip D., Pattavina, April, Tracy, Paul E.
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