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Bridging Gaps in Police Crime Data Describes the history
of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system and the data problems
that it deals with in reporting crime and arrests. The report includes
a description of the procedures used by the FBI to fill in gaps in the
data (when they exist) and makes suggestions about how they might be improved.
Since the FBI is moving to implement an improved crime and arrest reporting
system, the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), to replace
the UCR, a study of deficiencies in UCR data should be of use in planning
for the full implementation of NIBRS. The full report is based on a joint
FBI-BJS workshop on UCR imputation procedures held in April 1997, and
is a discussion paper prepared by Michael D. Maltz, University of Illinois
at Chicago under the BJS Visiting Fellows Program.
Full
report, 10/99, NCJ 176365: Acrobat
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