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dc.contributor.authorBlumstein, Alfred
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Jacqueline
dc.contributor.authorPiquero, Alex R
dc.contributor.authorVisher, Christy A
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:18:53Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:18:53Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-02-17T07:33:41Z
dc.identifier.issn0748-4518
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10940-010-9121-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/36373
dc.description.abstractThe magnitude and variation in the arrest risk per crime for individual offenders, termed Q,1 are fundamental to any characterization of crime and crime control. Obviously, Q has intrinsic value as an indicator of criminal justice performance, as well as a measure of the risk of detection faced by offenders. The variation in Q across offenders is also important as a methodological support to enable use of the widely available arrest data to make inferences about offending behavior. In particular, knowing Q is vital in attempts to estimate individual crime rates, λ, from such arrest data (Blumstein and Cohen 1979; Cohen 1986).
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom533
dc.relation.ispartofpageto548
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Quantitative Criminology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume26
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolice administration, procedures and practice
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440211
dc.titleLinking the Crime and Arrest Processes to Measure Variations in Individual Arrest Risk per Crime (Q)
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPiquero, Alex R.


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