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.

• 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

“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