The Crime Data Handbook / Laura Huey and David Buil-Gil..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huey, Laura, author.

Buil-Gil, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal statistics.

Crime analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "The Crime Data Handbook".

Contents:

Front Cover

The Crime Data Handbook

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Abstracts

Part I Crime Data Sources

1 Forewarned is Forearmed: The Hidden Curriculum of Working with Police Crime Data

Introduction

Potential of police crime data

Acquiring police crime data

Checking and cleaning police crime data

Analysing and interpreting police crime data

Conclusion

Notes

References

2 Local Safety and Victimization Surveys as a Data Source for Evidence-Based Prevention Policies

Victimization surveys as a source for measuring crime and safety

Contributions of victimization surveys

Limitations of VS

The geographical scale of VS: local, regional and national surveys

Local and regional surveys

National surveys with subnational estimates or local samples

VS and their role in public policies, the relevance of local prevention and community safety strategies

Why conduct local victimization and safety surveys?

3 National Crime Surveys in the 21st Century

Capturing the dark figure of crime: the importance of national crime surveys

An overview of the NCVS

Research uses of national crime surveys

Which categories of people are more likely to be victimized?

When, where, and under what circumstances are people more likely to be victimized?

What are the consequences of crime for victims?

Which factors are related to the reporting of crime?

21st-century challenges to national crime surveys

Acknowledgements

4 Self-Reported Data

Brief history

What information about delinquency is obtained?

Which is better, a general SRDS or a self-report survey on specific offences?.

Accurate information on criminal involvement

Questions regarding differential validity

Administration and ethical issues

Impact on the discipline of SRD data

5 Using Synthetic Crime Data to Understand Patterns of Police Undercounting at the Local Level

Generating synthetic crime data in England and Wales

Generating synthetic population

Generating synthetic crimes (known and unknown to the police)

Robustness checks

Comparisons against census data

Comparisons against police data

Comparisons against CSEW

Ensuring synthetic data reliability

Using the synthetic data to understand patterns of crime counting

Estimating the systematic undercounting of crimes

Estimating the correlation of crime recording rates with other criminological variables

6 Health Data: Complementing Police Data to Know How Violent Places Are and Whether Interventions Are Effective

How violence is currently measured in England and Wales

Rationale and utility: health data as another piece of the violence puzzle

Emergency department injury surveillance data

Ambulance calls for service

Rationale and utility of health data for the epidemiology of violence

Challenges of using health data for violence prevention

Trust in how the data will be used and responsibilities of healthcare staff

Caldicott Guardians and sharing potentially identifiable patient data

Burden on healthcare staff and data quality

Getting police officers and analysts to take healthcare data seriously

Alcohol licensing as a special case for healthcare data

Policy and research implications of using health data alongside police

Ambulance data as an independent source of policy effectiveness.

More complete picture of trends in violence means spending money differently

Effective use of health and police data means cost savings

Developing intervention and policy ideas

Prediction and strategic assessment

7 Social Media Data as a Gateway to Victims' Experiences

Social media as field of research

Social media as public sphere

Social media as data source

The disclosure of victimization experiences

Research on the disclosure of victimization experiences on social media

Part II Using Crime and Criminal Justice Data

8 Police Involvement in Mental Health Call-Outs

The over-representation of police contact types with people with a mental illness

Police recording and record management systems

Other ways of capturing mental health demand on policing services

Welfare checks

Where to from here and why we should collect this information?

Note

9 Exploring Unsolved Homicides in Great Britain through the FOIA: Implications for Practitioner Approaches to Investigations

Resolving homicides

Homicide clearances

Methodology

Demographic results: the victims and circumstances of death

Demographic results: the investigation's outcome

Cluster 1: charged and prosecuted cases (N = 129)

Cluster 2: 'pure' unsolved homicides (N = 116)

Cluster 3: excessive deaths and body depositions (N = 58)

Cluster 4: no-body homicides (N = 35)

Cluster 5: shootings (N = 39)

10 Obscured by Its Omnipresence? Conceptual and Practical Issues around Measuring Alcohol-Related Crime in England and Wales

Police recorded crime data

Victimization survey data.

Offender and arrestee survey data

11 Connecting the Corrupt: Data Sources to Study Networks of Serious Financial Crime in the United Kingdom

Social network analysis and social network data

Nodes

Attributes

Ties

Dynamics

Modes

Context

Data sources

Official documentation from Deferred Prosecution Agreements

Enforcement investigation case files

Commercial transaction data

Common issues of the data sources

12 The Limits of Deadly Force Databases for Studying Lethal Force by Police

Limitations of current databases and associated implications

Substantial amounts of systematically missing data

The use of raw count data

Recommendations

Part III Crime Data in Theory, Policy and Practice

13 Measuring Attitudes from General-Purpose Surveys: A Pragmatic Approach for Criminology

The ontology of reflexive measurement

Individual attitudinal correlates of offending

Defining a measure of criminal propensity from the Offending, Crime and Justice Survey

Justifying the measure as an accurate representation

14 On the Use of Inferential Statistics on Administrative Police Data

Understanding police data

Apparent populations

Superpopulation approach

Population approach

Approach of the field

Evidence from the field

The consequences

Wrongful suggestions of generalizability of the observed differences/effects

Undervaluing of observed differences/effects

Obscuring of the observed differences/effects

Hypothesized drivers of misuse

Proposed remedies for misuse

References.

15 Bad Outcomes, Good Intentions: Approaching the Potential Misuse of Crime Data by Policy Makers

Outlining the potential misuses of scientific research: the European research and development (R+D) approach

Measures to minimize the risk of misuse of crime data: introducing the 'Mutual Distrust Model'

About the Empirical Support Test

About the Transfer of Research Result Test

16 The Collection and Understanding of Administrative Data in UK Police Forces

The critical use of administrative data

Taking account of the construction of police recorded crime data

Discretionary procedures and institutional practices

Data storage and data organization systems

Missing data

Police recorded crime data: pack animal, not lone wolf

Where are law enforcement organizations in their understanding of and skills needed to work with administrative data like PRC?

The current position of police analysts: less expert, more minion

The evolving nature of policing: still more minion than expert

Challenges to moving from minion to expert for police analysts

Part IV Comparing, Contrasting and Combining Crime Data

17 Using Financial Transaction Data to Analyse, Detect and Disrupt Technologically Facilitated Crime

Live streaming of child sexual abuse

Limitations of analysing or detecting the online sexual exploitation of children

What do financial transactions data look like?

Barriers and opportunities for using financial transactions

Financial monitoring infrastructure

Analytical approaches

Methodological considerations

18 A Framework for Measuring the Quality of Police Recorded Cybercrime Data, Illustrated through a UK/USA Comparison.

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ISBN:

1-5292-3208-2

1-5292-3207-4