Reliability and validity of cross-national homicide data: a comparison of UN and WHO data.
Data reliability and validity are methodological concerns in cross-national analyses of crime, but there is little agreement on which source of data provides the most reliable estimates. Moreover, few studies have examined the potential threat to validity posed by unclassified deaths. The current st...
| Published in: | International Journal of Comparative & Applied Criminal Justice Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 287 - 303 |
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Nov2018
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