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- Title
Constructing an Index of Officially Recorded Crime: The Use of Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
- Authors
Parker, Robert Nash; McDowall, David
- Abstract
Researchers using officially reported crime statistics must frequently combine rates of individual crimes into a single composite. The most popular composite is the FBI Crime Index, which is the sum of the seven "Part I" crimes; alternatives include forming separate indices for personal and property crimes and weighting the crime categories by their seriousness before summing them. In this paper we construct crime composites through the use of confirmatory factor analysis methods. The results suggest that the measurement assumptions of conventional crime indices are problematic and demonstrate how more satisfactory alternatives can be developed with confirmatory factor analysis techniques.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CONFIRMATORY factor analysis; CRIME statistics; CRIME; FACTOR analysis; STATISTICS; UNITED States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Publication
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1986, Vol 2, Issue 3, p237
- ISSN
0748-4518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01066528