I am examining problem-solving court (PSC) effectiveness relative to community-level crime and arrest rates. Though I know the UCR dataset works best by agency (ORI), it would be impossible to merge this with my PSC data and have it make sense. These types of courts invariably cover counties in their jurisdictions. Knowing the limitations of county-level imputation of the UCR data, I am limiting my analysis to after 1994 and would like to use the Coverage Indicator variables as a validity measure.
Does anybody have a recommendation for where to set the cutoff? I have been searching the literature that uses UCR data and cannot find a standard.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Do you have access to Maltz & Targonski's (2002) publication addressing the use of county-level UCR data? Cutoff levels may be addressed in this research. Let me know if you need a copy.
Thank you, Kelli, for the response. I have looked over the Maltz & Targonski papers, and the back-and-forth they had with Lott & Whitley (e.g. 2003). Unfortunately, between all of them, I could not find a cutoff. There is the high likelihood that I missed something, though, so I'll go back over them and see if there is something mentioned.
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