Crime and Incarceration rates

[Fellows, Jeffrey]

Most states do not require mandatory e-coding (external cause of injury) on
records for emergency room, in/out patient hospital/clinic, or physician
office visits. Unless the surveillance data are e-coded, health care
resource and expenditure data (especially emergency department) on
intentional violence are probably the worst sources imaginable for
estimating incidence of most violence-related injuries (i.e., those other
than gunshot wounds). And this is only reflecting persons who actually
sought out health care. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Marco Anglesio [SMTP:mpa at the-wire.com]
> Sent:	Monday, June 07, 1999 12:25 PM
> To:	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject:	Re: Crime and Incarceration rates
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Adam Stevens wrote:
> > I don't have a set of comparative property crime stats in front of me at
> the
> > moment, but for non-violent property crime, the US and many European
> > countries DO have comparable rates.  However, reliable it is hard to
> make
> > cross-national comparisons of property crime rates because only about
> 40% of
> > crime in the US even gets reported to the police.  For some crimes (like
> 
> FYI:
> 
> I believe that the justice department's major cross-sectional survey of
> crime rates, but the Bureau of Justice Statistics' flagship survey, the
> National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), is done through statistical
> sampling rather than through police reports. Rates of reporting (or
> conviction) thus aren't really germane to the question.
> 
> Only one of their major surveys, the Emergency Room Statistics on
> Intentional Violence, seems to work on a reporting rather than survey
> basis, and even then they pick a representative sample of hospital
> emergency rooms and monitor those.
> 
> marco
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