Variance of Crime Rates - National, State, and Local Contributions
Date Published
March 2026
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Crime rate studies
MEDIA CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME REVISITED: MEDIA TYPES, CONSUMER CONTEXTS, AND FRAMES OF CRIME AND JUSTICE
Journal
Criminology
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Research into Immigration and Crime: Advancing the Understanding of Immigration, Crime, and Crime Reporting at the Local Level with a Synthetic Population, Final Report
Date Published
December 2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Trend and Deviation in Crime Rates: A Comparison of UCR and NCS Data
Date Published
1989
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Individual Crime Rates of Colorado Prisoners
Date Published
1987
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Design of Time-Series Comparisons Under Resource Constraints
Date Published
1981
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Strain and Violence: Testing a General Strain Theory Model of Community Violence
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice
Date Published
November 2003
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Community Power, the Urban Agenda, and Crime Policy
Journal
Social Science Quarterly
Date Published
1981
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Neighborhoods, Acculturation, Crime, and Victimization Among Hispanics: The Cross-Fertilization of the Sociologies of Immigration and Crime
Journal
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Date Published
February 2011
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Extracommunity Dynamics and the Ecology of Delinquency
Journal
American Journal of Sociology
Date Published
1987
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Family, Acquaintance, and Stranger Homicide: Alternative Procedures for Rate Calculations
Journal
Criminology
Date Published
1987
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Fear in the Neighborhoods - An Investigation of the Impact of Crime
Journal
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Date Published
1980
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Trajectories of Crime at Places: A Longitudinal Study of Street Segments in the City of Seattle
Journal
Criminology
Date Published
May 2004
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Including Tourists in Crime Rate Calculations for New Casino Jurisdictions: What Difference Does It Make?
Journal
American Journal of Criminal Justice
Date Published
2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Artifact in Pretest-Posttest Designs - How It Can Mistakenly Make Delinquency Programs Look Effective
Journal
Evaluation Review
Date Published
1980
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Why the Drop in Crime?
Journal
Crime & Justice International
Date Published
March 2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Effect of Casino Gambling on Crime in New Casino Jurisdictions
Journal
Journal of Crime & Justice
Date Published
2000
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Producing Official Crimes - Verified Crime Reports as Measures of Police Output
Journal
Social Science Quarterly
Date Published
1980
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Adjusting the National Crime Victimization Survey's Estimates of Rape and Domestic Violence for "Gag" Factors
Date Published
1994
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Undocumented Immigration, Crime, and Recidivism
2019-R2-CX-0058
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$396,194
Crime and Victimization on the US-Mexico Border: A Comparison of Legal Residents, Illegal Residents and Native-Born Citizens
2019-R2-CX-0054
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$521,702
Illegal Immigration, Immigration Enforcement Policies, and American CitizensÂ’ Victimization Risk
2019-R2-CX-0057
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$673,685
Neighborhood Crime Survey: An Examination of the Relationship Between Immigration and Victimization
2019-R2-CX-0055
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$1,020,679
New Directions in Research on Immigration and Crime
2019-R2-CX-0056
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$713,114
Economical Crime Control: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Ledger
December 2011
Series
The surge in incarceration since 1980 has been fueled in part by the mistaken belief that the population can be divided neatly into "good guys" and "bad guys." In fact, crime rates are not determined by the number of at-large criminals, any more than farm production is determined by the number of farmers. Crime is a choice, a choice that is influenced by available opportunities as much as by character. This perspective, drawn from economic theory, supports a multi-faceted approach to crime control. Dr.
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