Citation

Block R. Int. Rev. Victimology 1993; 2(3): 183-207.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, World Society of Victimology, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/026975809300200302

PMID

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Abstract

Comparison of national crime surveys must be made very cautiously because of differences in sampling, methodology and content. In this report methodological differences between the United States' National Crime Survey and victimization surveys of other countries are examined and survey estimates of victimization are adjusted. It is found that U.S. rates of assault/threat, robbery, and burglary are not extraordinarily higher than those of other eleven other countries or regions. However, U.S. levels of gun use are much higher and U.S. levels of both gun and non-gun lethal violence (using Killias, 1990) far exceed those of other industrialized societies.

Language: en