Volume 9, Number 2, 2007
Special Issue: Research Using NIBRS Data

The Volume 9, No. 2, 2007 issue of JRP is a special issue containing research that utilizes the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) as a data source. To view abstracts, click on the article titles below.

Table of Contents

Impact of Employment, Family Structure, and Income on NIBRS Offense, Victim, Offender, and Arrest Rates
        Roland Chilton, Wendy C. Regoeczi

Policy, Place and Perpetrators: Using NIBRS to Explain Arrest Practices in Intimate Partner Violence
        April Pattavina, Eve Buzawa, David Hirschel, Donald Faggiani

Race and Violent Offender "Propensity": Does the Intraracial Nature of Violent Crime Persist on the Local Level?
        Sarah Becker

Hot vs. Cold Cases: Examining Time to Clearance for Homicides Using NIBRS Data
        Lynn A. Addington

Lethal Weapons: Effects of Firearm Types on the Outcome of Violent Encounters
        Nicholas E. Libby, Jay Corzine

Gun Availability and Crime in West Virginia: An Examination of NIBRS Data
        Stephen M. Haas, John P. Jarvis, Eric Jefferis, Erica Turley