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ByMichael D. Maltz

Bridging Gaps in Police Crime Data

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A discussion paper based on a Workshop on Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Imputation. Chapters: why we need to look at the UCR; UCR history & coverage; incomplete crime data; incomplete arrest data; processing & publishing the crime data; procedures used for imputing crime data; inaccuracies produced by the imputation procedures; suggested imputation philosophy; supplementary homicide reports; conclusions & recommendations; state on-line publication of crime data; characteristics of state UCR collection programs; extent of UCR data coverage, Alabama-Wyoming, 1958-97. References. Glossary.

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