Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Department of Justice
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Bridging Gaps in
Police Crime Data
A Discussion Paper from the BJS Fellows Program
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crime statistics of the
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U.S. Department of Justice
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Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Office of Justice Programs
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bridging Gaps in
Police Crime Data
A Discussion Paper from the
BJS Fellows Program
by Michael D. Maltz
Department of Criminal Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago
and
Visiting Fellow
Bureau of Justice Statistics
September 1999, NCJ 176365
This paper is based on a Workshop
on Uniform Crime Reporting
Imputation, sponsored by the
Bureau of Justice Statistics
and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Uniform Crime Reporting
Program
U.S. Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Jan M. Chaiken, Ph.D.
Director
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