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November 2022
October 2022
Why do so many papers think crime data ends in 2016?
First published in October, 2022
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Jacob Kaplan
September 2022
Eight ways the media will mess up reporting on 2021 crime data
Last year the FBI reported that its estimated national murder rate increased from about 0.0051% of the population being murdered in 2019 to about 0.0065…
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Jacob Kaplan
August 2022
The case for fast-track replication papers
A recent research note by Benjamin Comer and Jason Ingram, a graduate student and an associate professor at Sam Houston State University, respectively…
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Jacob Kaplan
How to massively expand victimization data
A significant issue with our crime data is that it only includes crimes reported to the police. Most crimes that occur are never reported (especially…
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Jacob Kaplan
Fishing for a date
Is teenage dating related to drug use? This is the exact kind of question you’ll see studied in pretty much every criminology journal. But it’s a more…
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Jacob Kaplan
June 2022
May 2022
How bad is real estate crime data? Really bad
There was a recent and popular tweet about how real estate agents can’t tell you anything about crime in the neighborhood you’re looking at due to…
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Jacob Kaplan
Most code you write for research is a waste of time (because someone else has already done it)
It is very rare in criminology research to use quantitative data that no one has ever used before. It does happen. Primarily in surveys that the authors…
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Jacob Kaplan
NIBRS is a looming problem for criminology, not just for crime data
Last year marked the first year the FBI stopped collecting Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data and only took National Incident-Based Reporting System…
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Jacob Kaplan
April 2022
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