A Comparison of Imputation Methodologies in the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reports

Targonski, Joseph

doi:10.1037/e725232011-001

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“…and police reports from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR). Despite the UCR data being widely used to study crime, they are known to suffer from reporting issues that need to be taken into account by removing areas with unreliable data from the sample (Targonski, 2011). Coverage is therefore not universal.…”

Section: Homicide and Mortalitymentioning

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Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership, and Homicides: Evidence from a Firearm Demand Shock

Koenig

Schindler²

2023

Review of Economics and Statistics

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Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using variation from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock in 2012/2013, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales. Our findings indicate that this is likely driven by comparatively lower purchases among impulsive consumers. We then demonstrate that states with purchase delays also witnessed comparatively 2% lower homicide rates during the same period. Further evidence shows that lower handgun sales coincided primarily with fewer impulsive assaults and points towards reduced acts of domestic violence.

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Section: Homicide and Mortalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership, and Homicides: Evidence from a Firearm Demand Shock

Koenig

Schindler²

2023

Review of Economics and Statistics

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“…The explanation for these differences is that the data tables provided on the FBI website have been adjusted to account for the missing data (Liao et al 2015;Targonski 2011). Whereas the raw data obtained by the CJIS shows 45% of offenders being male and 30% being female, the data made available on the public FBI website shows that 55% of offenders are male and 37% are female.…”

Section: Gender Of Animal Cruelty Offendersmentioning

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Using the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to Study Animal Cruelty: Preliminary Results (2016–2019)

Palais

2021

Social Sciences

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On 1 January 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began collecting data on crimes involving animal cruelty from law enforcement agencies that participate in the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in the United States (U.S.). Prior to 2016, such crimes either went unreported or were lumped into an “all other offenses” category, making it difficult to understand who was committing these crimes and whether there were any connections between crimes perpetrated against animals and crimes in which there was a human victim. Animal cruelty has cruelty has been linked to certain types of human violence and, therefore, it is important for authorities to know more about the people committing these crimes. Preliminary results from an analysis of the first four years (2016–2019) of data are presented. The age and gender of animal cruelty offenders, the time of day when most crimes occur, and the most common locations where offenses take place are presented. The type of animal cruelty involved and details of the other crimes that co-occur with animal cruelty are discussed. The limitations of the data are shared and recommendations are made about other types of data that could be collected in the future to add value to the data.

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“…There are many unavoidable issues associated with the existing national database programs. The crime data that are reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, for example, are considered flawed and incomplete by many researchers (Blackman & Gardiner, 1984;Targonski, 2011;Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, 2020). Originally, the UCR was designed to measure the prevalence and the incidence of crime in the U.S. One of the major problems with UCR, however, is the lack of uniform definition of crime across jurisdictions.…”

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Examining the Clearance Rates of Violent and Non-Violent Offences in the United States: A Trend Analysis, 2011–2018

Avdija

Akgül

2020

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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The main objective of this study was to examine the clearance rates of violent and non-violent offenses in the United States for the years 2011 to 2018. This study focused specifically on the differences in clearance rates of incidents involving crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against society. The analyses are based on the FBI’s NIBRS data that have been reported by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies for 8 years combined. The analyses focused on the characteristics of the distribution of clearance rates by the types of incidents. The clearance rates were calculated based on the number of incidents that were cleared by arrest or exceptional means. The results show that the average clearance rate for incidents involving crimes against persons is 48.6%, for incidents involving property crimes is 18%, and for incidents involving crimes against society is 78%. The trend analyses show that the clearance rates are gradually decreasing for all three types of offense categories.

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A Comparison of Imputation Methodologies in the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reports

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership, and Homicides: Evidence from a Firearm Demand Shock

Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership, and Homicides: Evidence from a Firearm Demand Shock

Using the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to Study Animal Cruelty: Preliminary Results (2016–2019)

Examining the Clearance Rates of Violent and Non-Violent Offences in the United States: A Trend Analysis, 2011–2018

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