01:920:222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shoplifting, Larceny, Truancy
9 Oct 2018
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Problems with self-report data: underreporting, overreporting, respondents (cid:523)r"s(cid:524) forget/recall problems (cid:523)ex. Ucr: crime increases, declines, increases (violent crime especially), declines, no change or slight declines. Srd: not national, annual till 1975, no change (except drugs) Blacks make up about 13% of the population: hence you would expect them to make up about 13% of arrests, however, blacks have disproportionately high crime (arrest) rates according to. According to the 2011 ucr, blacks account for: 28% of all ucr part i arrests, 38% of all violent crime arrests, 50% of homicide arrests, 30% of all property crime arrests. They show no race differences in self-reported crime: even if trivial crimes are excluded, the race gap in the srd is small, with blacks only slightly higher on serious crimes alone. Does this mean ucr arrest statistics reflect police bias: probably not, b/c the ncvs does not have a problem with police bias.
