Surveys of Population Samples for Estimating Crime Incidence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9770381
AutoresAlbert D Biderman (Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc., Washington, D.C., autor correspondente)
Ano1967
Volume374
Fascículo1
Páginas16-33
Data de publicação1967-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271626737400103
OpenAlexW2117516461
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas1

A national survey and intensive surveys in three cities were undertaken for the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (hereinafter referred to as the National Crime Commission), to assess crime incidence by asking random samples of the public whether they had been victimized by crime. The major difficulties of these surveys arose from victimization's being an infrequent and usually not highly salient life event for most people. Even though these surveys found victimization to be far more common than suggested by national or local police statistics, they captured people's experiences selectively and incom pletely. The immediate data from a victim survey naturally differ in form from police and other agency statistics. While these make the survey data distinctively instructive, they present problems for comparison with police statistics. Such comparisons as can be made suggest that a large volume of citizen complaints to the police are not reflected in published offense statistics

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