The relationship between crime, punishment and economic conditions: Is reliable inference possible when crimes are under-recorded?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-97

  Pudney, Stephen ^a   Deadman, Derek ^b   Pyle, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Burglary; Crime; Measurement error; Simulation; Under recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034360714     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00158     Document Type: Article

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