Objectives Assess the extent to which measurement error in police recorded crime rates
impact the estimates of regression models exploring the causes and consequences of crime …

Crime data are problematic: Crimes that are never reported undermine its validity and
differences in police recording practices affect its reliability. However, the true extent of these …

Objectives Police-recorded crimes are used by police forces to document community
differences in crime and design spatially targeted strategies. Nevertheless, crimes known to …

Police-recorded crime data are prone to measurement error, affecting our understanding of
the nature of crime. Research has responded to this problem using data from surveys and …

Research on the relationship between police and crime, like many criminological topics, is
subject to uncertain causal direction and omitted controls. We recommend procedures that …

Understanding of the phenomenon of crime lies at the heart of criminology. A century and a
half of theory and research has accumulated, but there does not yet exist an evaluation of …

While accurate data are critical in understanding crime and assessing criminal justice policy,
data on crime and illicit activities are invariably measured with error. In this chapter, we …

Purpose–Statistics about the level of crime continue to attract public and political attention
but are often presented in conflicting ways. In England and Wales, police-recorded crimes …

It is widely known that police recorded crime data provides only a partial picture of the true
extent of crimes, with surveys identifying a large number of 'hidden'victims. Often referred to …

There are great individual differences between offenders in their crime rates. The chronic
offenders who commit the most crimes tend to commit them at the highest rates. High …