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O′Brien treats the subject of criminal statistics in more detail than any single textbook chapter. He reviews the historical development of crime statistics, looks at how statistics are gathered, and then compares crime rate data from various sources. The implications of these comparisons, together with suggestions for improvements are also made.

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• Introduction
• Uniform Crime Reports
• Official Data
• National Crime Surveys
• Victim Reports
• Self Report Surveys
• Offender Reports
• Crime Rates Based on UCR, NCS, and SR Data
• Convergence and Divergence
• Conclusions
• Social Science and Social Policy Implications

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CHOICE Review

O'Brien's book focuses on the three major approaches to the measurement of crime: Unified Crime Reports, victim reports, and self-report studies. The author discusses the history and mechanics of each approach in short chapters. The work concludes with a treatment of the differences between the methods and resulting differences in crime statistics. A final chapter offers a few suggestions for improvement of the manner in which data about crime is collected. The book has adequate references and makes excellent use of a limited number of charts and tables. For libraries serving undergraduate criminal justice and criminology departments.-R.T. Sigler, University of Alabama