37 research outputs found
The Nation\u27s Two Measures of Homicide
The United States uses two national data collection systems to track detailed information on homicides: the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Fatal Injury Reports. Both measures were developed as part of a federal effort to improve national statistical systems in the early twentieth century and have gone through a number of changes since then to improve their consistency and coverage. Each program provides valuable information on the nature, trends, and patterns of homicides in the United States. Although the two measures generally capture information on the same types of events, they are designed for distinct purposes and collect different types of information. In combination, however, they produce a fairly comprehensive understanding of homicide, the most serious form of violence
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Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence
Sociological and criminological views of domestic and gender-based violencegenerally either dismiss it as not worthy of consideration, or focus on specificgroups of offenders and victims (male youth gangs, partner violence victims). Inthis paper, we take a holistic approach to violence, extending the definition fromthat commonly in use to encompass domestic violence and sexual violence. Weoperationalize that definition by using data from the latest sweep of the CrimeSurvey for England and Wales. By so doing, we identify that violence is currentlyunder-measured and ubiquitous; that it is gendered, and that other forms of violence (family violence, acquaintance violence against women) are equally ofconcern. We argue that violence studies are an important form of activity forsociologists
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Technical Report (United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics)
This technical report discusses the analysis of data on deaths that occurred in the process of arrest
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Arrest-Related Deaths Program Redesign Study, 2015-16: Preliminary Findings
This report covers arrest related deaths for the years 2015-2016
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Arrest-Related Deaths Program: Data Quality Profile
"This report gives and overview of the ARD program, describes the data collection methods used by SRCs, and assesses the quality of the resulting data and coverage for eligible ARD cases that involve law enforcement homicides.