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Modernizing Crime Statistics - Report 1: Defining and Classifying Crime (Paperback)
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Modernizing Crime Statistics - Report 1: Defining and Classifying Crime (Paperback)
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To derive statistics about crime ? to estimate its levels and
trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law
enforcement approaches to prevent it ? a conceptual framework for
defining and thinking about crime is virtually a prerequisite.
Developing and maintaining such a framework is no easy task,
because the mechanics of crime are ever evolving and shifting: tied
to shifts and development in technology, society, and legislation.
Interest in understanding crime surged in the 1920s, which proved
to be a pivotal decade for the collection of nationwide crime
statistics. Now established as a permanent agency, the Census
Bureau commissioned the drafting of a manual for preparing crime
statistics?intended for use by the police, corrections departments,
and courts alike. The new manual sought to solve a perennial
problem by suggesting a standard taxonomy of crime. Shortly after
the Census Bureau issued its manual, the International Association
of Chiefs of Police in convention adopted a resolution to create a
Committee on Uniform Crime Records ?to begin the process of
describing what a national system of data on crimes known to the
police might look like. The key distinction between the rigorous
classification proposed in this report and the "classifications"
that have come before in U.S. crime statistics is that it is
intended to partition the entirety of behaviors that could be
considered criminal offenses into mutually exclusive categories.
Modernizing Crime Statistics: Report 1: Defining and Classifying
Crime assesses and makes recommendations for the development of a
modern set of crime measures in the United States and the best
means for obtaining them. This first report develops a new
classification of crime by weighing various perspectives on how
crime should be defined and organized with the needs and demands of
the full array of crime data users and stakeholders. Table of
Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction: Crime Statistics in
the United States 2 Current Scope and State of Nationally Compiled
Crime Data 3 Users (and Uses) of Crime Statistics 4 Historical and
Extant Classifications of Crime 5 Proposed Classification of Crime
for Statistical Purposes References Appendixes Appendix A: Charge
to the Panel on Modernizing the Nation's Crime Statistics Appendix
B: Participants in the Panel's Workshop-Style Meetings and Regular
Sessions Appendix C: Alternative and Example Classifications of
Crime Appendix D: Detailed Definitions and Exclusions, Panel's
Proposed Classification of Crime Appendix E: Biographical Sketches
of Panel Members and Staff Committee on National Statistics
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