TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Measuring Crime Seriousness: Lessons from the National Survey of Crime Severity
JO  - British journal of criminology
A1  - Parton, D. A.
A1  - Hansel, M
A1  - Stratton, JR
SP  - 72
EP  - 85
VL  - 31
IS  - 1
N2  - This paper considers strategies for studying crime seriousness, reviews the requirements for using magnitude estimation, reports a method study, and identifies problems in the US National Survey of Crime Severity (NSCS). Among those problems are: (1) most NSCS sub-group differences in crime perceptions are not interpretable because of the variant of magnitude estimation used in the NSCS; (2) their cross-modality laboratory studies are irrelevant to evaluating the adequacy of the NSCS method; (3) some of the NSCS results allow the interpretation that as many as a quarter of the respondents failed to make magnitude estimations; (4) the unsystematic introduction of status information in some NSCS items introduces variance which cannot be effectively assessed; and (5) the NSCS method for developing a crime index weighted by the seriousness of crimes is less feasible than other alternatives.<p /> 
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SN  - 0007-0955
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -