Crime Data Handbook

Laura Huey is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.David Buil-Gil is Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology at the University of Manchester and Academic Lead for Digital Technologies and Crime at the Manchester Centre for Digital Trust and Society.

“This text brings together relevant topical areas with contributions that should be foundational readings for both academics and practitioners.” Grant Drawve, Vice President of Research & Innovation, CAP Index

• Introduction - Laura Huey and David Buil-GilPART 1 – CRIME DATA SOURCESChapter 1 Forewarned Is Forearmed: The Hidden Curriculum of Working With Police Crime Data - Sophie Curtis-Ham, Lisa Tompson and Sarah CzarnomskiChapter 2 Local Safety and Victimization Surveys as a Data Source for Evidence-Based Prevention Policies - Marta Murrià Sangenís, Cristina Sobrino Garcés and Jose Maria López-RibaChapter 3 National Crime Surveys in the 21st Century - Mark MillsChapter 4 Self-Reported Data - Raquel Bartolomé Gutierrez, Esther Fernández-Molina and Rosemary BarberetChapter 5 Using Synthetic Crime Data to Understand Patterns of Police Undercounting at the Local Level - Ian Brunton-Smith, David Buil-Gil, Jose Pina-Sánchez, Alexandru Cernat and Angelo MorettiChapter 6 Health Data: Complementing Police Data to Know How Violent Places Are and Whether Interventions Are Effective - Alex Sutherland and Adrian BoyleChapter 7 Social Media Data as a Gateway to Victims’ Experiences - Jesús C. Aguerri and Fernando Miró-LlinaresPART 2 – USING CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATAChapter 8 Police Involvement in Mental Health Call-Outs - Stuart D.M. ThomasChapter 9 Exploring Unsolved Homicides in Great Britain Through the FOIA: Implications for Practitioner Approaches to Investigations - Kirsty BennettChapter 10 Obscured by Its Omnipresence? Conceptual and Practical Issues Around Measuring Alcohol-Related Crime in England and Wales - Carly Lightowlers, Lucy Bryant and Olivia HorsefieldChapter 11 Connecting the Corrupt: Data Sources to Study Networks of Serious Financial Crime in the United Kingdom - Tomáš Diviák and Nicholas LordChapter 12 the Limits of Deadly Force Databases for Studying Lethal Force by Police - Bryce Jenkins, Tori Semple and Craig BennellPART 3 – CRIME DATA IN THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICEChapter 13 Measuring Attitudes From General Purpose Surveys: A Pragmatic Approach for Criminology - Jack CunliffeChapter 14 on the Use of Inferential Statistics on Administrative Police Data - Tim Verlaan and Samuel LangtonChapter 15 Bad Outcomes, Good Intentions: Approaching the Potential Misuse of Crime Data by Policy Makers - Francisco J. Castro-Toledo and Ana B. Gómez-BellvísChapter 16 the Collection and Understanding of Administrative Data in UK Police Forces - Scott Keay and Jude TowersPART 4 – COMPARING, CONTRASTING AND COMBINING CRIME DATAChapter 17 Using Financial Transaction Data to Analyze, Detect and Disrupt Technologically Facilitated Crime - Timothy I.C. CubittChapter 18 A Framework for Measuring the Quality of Police Recorded Cybercrime Data, Illustrated Through a UK/USA Comparison - Sara Correia-HopkinsChapter 19 The Dark Figure of Prison Violence in Uruguay: An Exploratory Mixed-Method Study - Nicolás Trajtenberg and Olga Sánchez De RiberaChapter 20 Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Using Different Data Sources: Reflections on a Global Shadow Pandemic - Anthony Morgan and Hayley BoxallChapter 21 Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground - Leticia Couto