Using the UCR and NCVS to Enhance Understanding of Crime Trends and Offender Behavior

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The papers in this session consider a range of topics as a means of appraising the utility of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) to enhance our understanding of crime trends in the United States. Topics include an examination of factors contributing to divergence and convergence between UCR and NCVS trends, temporal changes in the reporting of intimate partner violence to the police, using the NCVS to understand temporal variation in the use of incarceration, and identifying the extent and implications of missing data in the UCR.

Sub Unit

• Area VII. Methodology / 54. Advances in Quantitative Methodology

Individual Presentations

• Missingness in the Uniform Crime Reports - Michael D. Maltz, Ohio State University / University of Illinois at Chicago

• Convergence and Divergence Between UCR and NCVS Trends - Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Janet Lauritsen, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Temporal changes in the reporting of intimate partner violence to police, 1973-2013 - Shannan Catalano, Bureau of Justice Statistics, USDOJ; Kimberly Martin, Bureau of Justice Statistics, USDOJ

• Using the NCVS to Understand Changes in the Use of Incarceration over Time - William Sabol, Bureau of Justice Statistics, USDOJ; James Patrick Lynch, University of Maryland

Chair

• William Sabol, Bureau of Justice Statistics, USDOJ