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Bachman, Ronet and Bruce M. Taylor. 1994."The Measurement of Family Violence and Rape by

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Biderman, Albert D. and James P. Lynch. 1991. Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics: Why

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Bursik, Robert J. and Harold G. Grasmick. 1993. "The Use of Multiple Indicators to Estimate

Crime Trends in American Cities." Journal of Criminal Justice 21:509-516.

 

Chamlin, Mitchell B. and Mary B. Kennedy. 1991. "The Impact of the Wilson Administration on

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Delbert S. and Suzanne S. Ageton. 1980. "Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-

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Farrington, David P. et al. 1996. "Self-Reported Delinquency and a Combined Delinquency

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Forst, Brian and James P. Lynch. 1997. "The Decomposition and Graphical Analysis of Crime

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Fox, James A. and Paul E. Tracy. 1988 "A Measure of Skewness in Offense Distributions."

Journal of Quantitative Criminology 4: 259-74.

 

Golden, R. and S. Messner. 1987. "Dimensions of Racial Inequality and Rates of Violent Crime."

Criminology 25: 525-541.

 

Gordon, Robert. 1976. "Prevalence: The Rare Datum in Delinquency Measurement and Its

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Grisso, Thomas and Paul S. Appelbaum. 1992. "Is It Unethical to Offer Predictions of Future

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Huizinga, David and Delbert S. Elliott. 1986. "Reassessing the Reliability and Validity of Self-

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Junger, Marianne. 1989. "Discrepancies between Police and Self-Report Data for Duch Racial

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Loftin, Colin and David McDowall. 1988. "The Analysis of Case-Control Studies in

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Scenario Methods." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 9:309-322.

 

Menard, Scott and Herbert Covey. 1988. "UCR and NCS: Comparisons over Space and Time."

Journal of Criminal Justice 16:371-384.

 

Monahan, John. 1996. "Violence Prediction: The Past Twenty and the Next Twenty Years."

Criminal Justice and Behavior 23:107-120.

 

Monahan, John and Henry J. Steadman. 1994. "Toward a Rejuvenation of Risk Assessment

Research." Pp. 1-17 in Violence and Mental Disorder: Developments in Risk Assessment.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Myers, Samuel L., Jr. 1980. "Why Are Crimes Underreported? What is the Crime Rate? Does it

Really Matter?" Social Science Quarterly 61:23-43.

 

Nelson, James F. 1980. "Multiple Victimization in American Cities: A Statistical Analysis of Rare

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O'Brien, Robert M. 1990. "Comparing Detrended UCR and NCS Crime Rates Over Time: 1973-

1986." Journal of Criminal Justice 18:229-238.

 

Parker, Robert N. and David McDowall. 1986. "Constructing an Index of Officially Recorded

Crime: The Use of Confirmatory Factor Analysis." Journal of Quantitative Criminology

2:237-250.

 

Rokaw, William M., James A. Mercy, and Jack C. Smith. 1990. "Comparing Death Certificate

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Sampson, Robert J. 1993. "Linking Time and Place: Dynamic Contextualism and the Future of

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Steadman, Henry J. et al. 1994. "Designing a New Generation of Risk Assessment Research." Pp.

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University of Chicago Press.

 

Weis, Joseph G. 1986. "Issues in the Measurement of Criminal Careers." Pp. 1-51 in Criminal

Careers and "Career Criminals." Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press.

 

Weisburd, David. 1993. "Design Sensitivity in Criminal Justice Experiments." Crime and Justice

17:337-379.

 

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