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Surveying Victims
Panel To Review The Programs Of The Bureau Of Justice Statistics; Committee On National Statistics; Committee On Law And Justice; Division Of Behavio
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Paperback. Editor(s): Groves, Robert M.; Cork, Daniel L. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom. In the late 1960s, knowledge of crimes and their victims came largely from reports filed by local police agencies as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system, as well as from studies of the files held by individual police departments. Criminologists understood that there existed a "dark figure" of crime consisting of events not reported to the police. However, over the course of the last decade, the effectiveness ... Read more
It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom. In the late 1960s, knowledge of crimes and their victims came largely from reports filed by local police agencies as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system, as well as from studies of the files held by individual police departments. Criminologists understood that there existed a "dark figure" of crime consisting of events not reported to the police. However, over the course of the last decade, the effectiveness ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
National Academies Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780309115988
SKU
V9780309115988
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About Panel To Review The Programs Of The Bureau Of Justice Statistics; Committee On National Statistics; Committee On Law And Justice; Division Of Behavio
Robert M. Groves and Daniel L. Cork, Editors, Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Research Council
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