The Crime Data Handbook

Introduction - Laura Huey and David Buil-Gil





PART 1 - CRIME DATA SOURCES





Chapter 1 Forewarned Is Forearmed: The Hidden Curriculum of Working With Police Crime Data - Sophie Curtis-Ham, Lisa Tompson and Sarah Czarnomski


Chapter 2 Local Safety and Victimization Surveys as a Data Source for Evidence-Based Prevention Policies - Marta Murria Sangenis, Cristina Sobrino Garces and Jose Maria Lopez-Riba


Chapter 3 National Crime Surveys in the 21st Century - Mark Mills


Chapter 4 Self-Reported Data - Raquel Bartolome Gutierrez, Esther Fernandez-Molina and Rosemary Barberet


Chapter 5 Using Synthetic Crime Data to Understand Patterns of Police Undercounting at the Local Level - Ian Brunton-Smith, David Buil-Gil, Jose Pina-Sanchez, Alexandru Cernat and Angelo Moretti


Chapter 6 Health Data: Complementing Police Data to Know How Violent Places Are and Whether Interventions Are Effective - Alex Sutherland and Adrian Boyle


Chapter 7 Social Media Data as a Gateway to Victims' Experiences - Jesus C. Aguerri and Fernando Miro-Llinares





PART 2 - USING CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA





Chapter 8 Police Involvement in Mental Health Call-Outs - Stuart D.M. Thomas


Chapter 9 Exploring Unsolved Homicides in Great Britain Through the FOIA: Implications for Practitioner Approaches to Investigations - Kirsty Bennett


Chapter 10 Obscured by Its Omnipresence? Conceptual and Practical Issues Around Measuring Alcohol-Related Crime in England and Wales - Carly Lightowlers, Lucy Bryant and Olivia Horsefield


Chapter 11 Connecting the Corrupt: Data Sources to Study Networks of Serious Financial Crime in the United Kingdom - Tomas Diviak and Nicholas Lord


Chapter 12 the Limits of Deadly Force Databases for Studying Lethal Force by Police - Bryce Jenkins, Tori Semple and Craig Bennell





PART 3 - CRIME DATA IN THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE


Chapter 13 Measuring Attitudes From General Purpose Surveys: A Pragmatic Approach for Criminology - Jack Cunliffe


Chapter 14 on the Use of Inferential Statistics on Administrative Police Data - Tim Verlaan and Samuel Langton


Chapter 15 Bad Outcomes, Good Intentions: Approaching the Potential Misuse of Crime Data by Policy Makers - Francisco J. Castro-Toledo and Ana B. Gomez-Bellvis


Chapter 16 the Collection and Understanding of Administrative Data in UK Police Forces - Scott Keay and Jude Towers





PART 4 - COMPARING, CONTRASTING AND COMBINING CRIME DATA





Chapter 17 Using Financial Transaction Data to Analyze, Detect and Disrupt Technologically Facilitated Crime - Timothy I.C. Cubitt


Chapter 18 A Framework for Measuring the Quality of Police Recorded Cybercrime Data, Illustrated Through a UK/USA Comparison - Sara Correia-Hopkins


Chapter 19 The Dark Figure of Prison Violence in Uruguay: An Exploratory Mixed-Method Study - Nicolas Trajtenberg and Olga Sanchez De Ribera


Chapter 20 Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Using Different Data Sources: Reflections on a Global Shadow Pandemic - Anthony Morgan and Hayley Boxall


Chapter 21 Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground - Leticia Couto