It's Official: Predictors of Self-Reported vs. Officially Recorded Arrests

Wendi Pollock, Scott Menard, Delbert S. Elliott and David H. Huizinga

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2015, vol. 43, issue 1, 69-79

Abstract: The study of the distribution and correlates of arrest is widely recognized as an important topic, for the purposes of contributing to changes in police policy and training, which in turn increase the fairness of U.S. policing. Despite agreement that this area of research is an important one, there remains variation in the way arrest is measured. The current study compares two common measurements of arrest, official records and self-reports, for National Youth Survey Family Study (NYSFS) respondents across four time periods.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2014.12.004

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