Police-Public Contact Survey: assessment and recommendations for producing trend estimates after 2011 questionnaire redesign / Marcus Berzofsky [and five others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Berzofsky, Marcus, author.

Contributor:

United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics, issuing body.

Series:

Bureau of Justice Statistics research and development series ; 2017:01.

Bureau of Justice Statistics research and development series ; R & D-2017:01

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police-community relations--United States.

Police-community relations.

Police-community relations--Estimates--United States.

Police--United States--Public opinion.

Police.

Police--Public opinion.

United States.

Genre:

Government publications

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (47 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : BJS, Office of Justice Programs, 2017.

Summary:

This research and development paper describes changes to the 2011 Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS), a supplement to the national Crime Victimization Survey, and their impact on estimating trends. It details how the PPCS was redesigned in 2011 to better capture police-public contacts and characteristics of these encounters. A split-sample design was used to assess the extent to which apparent changes in rates, outcomes, and perceptions of contacts with police are a product of changes to the survey rather than actual changes in the rates over time. The report also discusses the adjustment factors that were created to allow for the examination of trends between 2002 and 2011.

Notes:

"April 2017."

"NCJ 250485."

Includes bibliographical references (page 34).

Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (BJS web site, viewed April 22, 2017).

OCLC:

983727547