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Quality of Chicago Supplementary Homicide Reports Data Compared to the Chicago Homicide Dataset
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- Quality of Chicago Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR_CHD_9_13_19991.pdf)
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Since the Supplementary Homicide Reports has been and continues to be the source of much of our knowledge about lethal violence in the United States, it is important to know just how good that source is. To evaluate the completeness and accuracy of Supplementary Homicide Reports data in one city, the Bureau of Justice Statistics asked the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to conduct a case-by-case comparison of the 1,784 homicides recorded in the Chicago Homicide Dataset in 1993 or 1994 to homicides recorded in the Supplementary Homicide Reports for those years. This report, the results of the comparison, provide information about the quality of Supplementary Homicide Reports data in Chicago.
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- Information management and resources: Information resources: Government statistics: Crime statistics
- Information management and resources: Information resources: Government statistics: Demographic statistics
- Law enforcement and the courts: Crime: Crime statistics
- Law enforcement and the courts: Local police
- State government: State audits and studies
- State government: State finance: Federal grants
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.1 Quality of Chicago Supplementary Homicide Reports Data Compared to the Chicago Homicide Dataset Carolyn Rebecca Block, Thomas D. Patterson and Daniel Dick Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority September 13, 1999 The Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) of the Uniform Crime Reports has been for many years foundation of homicide research In the United States (Maltz, 1999). The SHR is easily accessible, available in the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (Fox, 1996), and contains more detail about each incident than available in the Uniform Crime Reports for other violent crimes. Policy decision-makers depend upon it to answer such basic questions as the trends in homicide rates of young offenders (Fox, 1997), the effectiveness of gun-carry laws (Lott & Mustard, 1997), the risk of death due to child abuse (Maltz, 1998), the number of domestic violence homicides (Langford, et al., 1998), or the proportion of homicides committed by stranger (Riedel, 1998; Williams & Fle
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Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
Program: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
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Organization: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
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Network Address: idetta.phillips@illinois.gov
Phone: (312) 793-8550
Fax: (312) 793-8422
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- Language(s): EN-English
- Creation Date (from issuing agency): 09 01 1999
- Document Modification Date (from issuing agency): 03 02 2005
- Date Accepted Into Depository: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:33:08 GMT
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