Modelling the Relationship between Crime Count and Observation Period in Prison Inmates' Self‐Report Data

Karen T. Hurrell

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 1993, vol. 42, issue 2, 355-367

Abstract: Self‐report data provide information on crime commissions that would otherwise be unavailable but are not sufficiently detailed to show the changing relationship (with time) between crimes committed and the probability of incarceration. The model derived here approximates this relationship via the assumption that the crime count distribution depends on both the number of months incarcerated and the number of months free to commit crimes. An example is given by using data from the Rand Corporation's second inmate survey.

Date: 1993
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