Official Crime Statistics: Their Use and Interpretation

By Z. Macdonald. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Manudeep Bhuller
2. E. Leuven
3. Magne Mogstad
4. P. Pinotti
5. Tarjei Havnes
6. Jack Mountjoy
7. David Schoenherr

In Sociology and Political Science

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2. Magne Mogstad
3. Tarjei Havnes
4. Manudeep Bhuller
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7. Fulvio Castellacci
8. W. Van Lancker

Citations in the corpus

• Clicking on heaven's door: the effect of immigrant legalization on crime (2017, background): “First, 19 reported crimes always underestimate the true number of committed crimes (MacDonald, 2002).”
• Cost of crime: A systematic review (2015, background): “because of victims underreporting incidents of crime and police not recording reported crime (MacDonald, 2002; Mirrlees-Black, Budd, Partridge, & Mayhew, 1998).”
• Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime? (2013, background): “Self-reports of criminal activity should be interpreted cautiously since they are often impossible to validate and since there are incentives to misreport (MacDonald, 2002; Kirk, 2006).”