Beschreibung:
This book looks at crime statistics from a statistical point of view, and evaluates the different sources of crime statistics with respect to completeness, e.g., missing data, measurement error, and sampling variability. The goal of the book is to promote statistical reasoning about statistics.
1. Measuring Crime. 2. Homicide Statistics. 3. Crime Statistics from Law Enforcement Agencies. 4. The Dark Figure of Unreported Crime. 5. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Selecting the Sample. 6. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Estimating Victimization Rates. 7. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Measurement Error and Missing Data. 8. Sexual Assault. 9. Fraud and Identity Theft. 10. "Big Data" and Crime. 11. Going Forward: Improving Crime Statistics.