Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting

In Understanding Crime Statistics, Lynch and Addington draw on the work of leading experts on U.S. crime statistics to provide much-needed research on appropriate use of this data. Specifically, the contributors explore the issues surrounding divergence in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which have been the two major indicators of the level and of the change in level of crime in the United States for the past 30 years. This book examines recent changes in the UCR and the NCVS and assesses the effect these have had on divergence. By focusing on divergence, the authors encourage readers to think about how these data systems filter the reality of crime. Understanding Crime Statistics builds on this discussion of divergence to explain how the two data systems can be used as they were intended - in complementary rather than competitive ways.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Contributor Biographies	p. xi
Introduction
Introduction	p. 3
Overview of the Two National Measures of U.S. Crime
Introduction to the National Crime Victimization Survey	p. 17
Introduction to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program	p. 55
Defining Divergence and Convergence
What Is Convergence, and What Do We Know About It?	p. 93
Sources of Divergence in the NCVS
Methodological Change in the NCVS and the Effect on Convergence	p. 125
Series Victimizations and Divergence	p. 156
Exploring Differences in Estimates of Visits to Emergency Rooms for Injuries from Assaults Using the NCVS and NHAMCS	p. 183
Sources of Divergence in the UCR
Using NIBRS to Study Methodological Sources of Divergence Between the UCR and NCVS	p. 225
Explaining the Divergence Between UCR and NCVS Aggravated Assault Trends	p. 251
Missing UCR Data and Divergence of the NCVS and UCR Trends	p. 269
Conclusion
Conclusion	p. 297
Index	p. 335
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Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and the UCR

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