Where's the data? The Diversity of Crime Data in the Modern Landscape

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Crime trends data available to criminologists has grown in the last several years. For instance, the retirement of the UCR’s Summary Reporting System with NIBRS has increased agency participation, thereby increasing the national coverage of detailed crime incident information. This panel features four papers that rely on different sources of crime data to identify recent trends in violent and property crime. Overall, the papers highlight the need for criminologists to be familiar with multiple data sources and methodologies to analyze crime trends from the neighborhood to national levels.

Sub Unit

• Area XI. Methodology / 77. Advances in Quantitative Methods

Individual Presentations

• Violence Lethality Trends - Mark Berg, University of Iowa; Ethan Rogers, University of Iowa

• Changing Criminological “Facts”? Recent Trends in Juvenile Offending in the NIBRS Data - Brendan Lantz, Florida State University; Kyle G. Knapp, Florida State University

• Shoplifting Trends in Time and Space in Two Major American Cities - Robert Boxerman, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Kelsey Cundiff, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Chair

• Ernesto Lopez, Council on Criminal Justice

Organized by a Division or external group?

The Council on Criminal Justice