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 …

When applied to homicide clearance by arrest, the victim-devaluing perspective posits that
police favor higher—social status victims by allocating greater investigative effort to their …

Previous research links police organisational factors to various police outcomes. However,
although research has examined the relationship between specific organisational practices …

As rape remains one of the most underreported and least likely to be cleared of the violent
crimes, it is of paramount importance to understand the factors associated with the likelihood …

Relative to non-bias motivated crimes, hate crimes have much graver consequences for
victims and their community. Despite the large increase in religious hate crimes over the …

Studies examining factors influencing homicide clearances have produced consistent
findings for child victims, arguments, and incident location. Conclusions have been far more …

Objectives Estimate the relationship between race and arrest within co-offending
partnerships using a quasi-experimental framework. More specifically, this study argues that …

Cyberbullying continues to receive growing research attention, but much of this work
focuses on prevalence estimates. Little is known about responses to these incidents. The …

Scholars have criticized the use of homicide clearance rates to measure police performance,
as many incident-and jurisdiction-level characteristics beyond police control influence these …

When the NIBRS data were introduced by the FBI, they were welcomed as representing a
potential revolution in US crime statistics. More than two decades later, however …