@article{ref1,
title="The uniform crime reports revisited",
journal="Journal of criminal justice",
year="1974",
author="Hindelang, M. J.",
volume="2",
number="1",
pages="1-17",
abstract="Of all criminal justice statistics in the United States, the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most widely known, used, and criticized. While the criticisms leveled at the UCR have been many and varied, attempts to assess the effects of the shortcomings of the UCR have been rare. Unfortunately, national sources of data against which the UCR can be gauged are very limited. There are, however, two such sources which may be used–homicide statistics collected by the Center for Health Statistics and the 1967 National Opinion Research Center victimization survey. While only very crude comparisons can be made between the UCR and data from these two sources, the results suggest that for homicide trends and the geographic distribution of<p />",
language="",
issn="0047-2352",
doi="10.1016/0047-2352(74)90114-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(74)90114-7"
}