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Surviving NIBRS: Restoring America’s Unreported Homicides and Exploring the Influences for Law Enforcement’s Declining Cooperation in Crime Reporting

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dc.contributor.advisorDong, Beidi
dc.contributor.authorHargrove, Thomas Kirk
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-28T12:18:39Z
dc.date.available2024-06-28T12:18:39Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-30
dc.description.abstractFBI adoption of the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2021 as the mandatory reporting standard for crime data resulted in an unprecedented decline in police reporting to the federal government. Only 57 percent of the nation’s homicides were reported that year. This study obtained more than 6,000 unreported homicides from local and state police agencies using Freedom of Information Act and Open Record Act requests. The study compares FBI data and the study’s augmented dataset for accuracy and completeness using the National Vital Statistics System as a reference. This study also used a 3,134-county regression analysis to explore the socioeconomic factors associated with police decisions to participate, or to decline participation, in the more complex NIBRS program.
dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/13618
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.13021/MARS/2078
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2023 Thomas Kirk Hargrove
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0
dc.subjectNIBRS
dc.subjectUniform Crime Report
dc.subjectmissing records
dc.subjecthomicide
dc.subjectunreported
dc.subjectNational Incident Based Reporting System
dc.titleSurviving NIBRS: Restoring America’s Unreported Homicides and Exploring the Influences for Law Enforcement’s Declining Cooperation in Crime Reporting
dc.typeThesis
dspace.entity.typePublication
thesis.degree.disciplineCriminology, Law and Society
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelMaster's
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts in Criminology, Law and Society

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