Learning To Use Incident-Based Crime Data: One Agency at a Time (From Trends, Risks, and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group, P 305-308, 1995, Carolyn Block and Richard Block, eds.)

• NCJ Number: 159913
• Author(s): R Chilton
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 4 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
• Publication Type: Survey
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. NIJ Research Report, See NCJ-154254 for complete document.

Annotation

This paper discusses how police agencies can use incident- based reporting programs to analyze crime patterns and trends.

Abstract

The author is developing a National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)-like program specifically designed to study violence on a university campus. Incident-based data for a single police agency are useful and can have substantive importance. Incident- based data in an NIBRS format can be analyzed using a word processor and a good statistical package; eventually, standard NIBRS software will become commercially available. This paper emphasizes, however, that incident-based data cannot be analyzed using traditional approaches to rectangular data files.