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Capture-Recapture for Hidden Crime Populations

Capture-recapture, known in criminology and public health as multiple systems estimation, infers the size of a hidden population — undocumented homicide victims, trafficking victims, problem drug users, undetected offenders — that no single source counts completely. By examining how much two or more incomplete lists overlap, it estimates how many cases were missed by all of them: the 'dark figure' of crime. Borrowed from wildlife ecology, the method was synthesized for human populations by the International Working Group in 1995 and brought to criminal-justice policy by Bird and King.

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Capture-Recapture Estimation of Hidden and Dark-Figure Crime Populations
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  • Bird, S. M., & King, R. (2018). Multiple systems estimation (or capture-recapture estimation) to inform public policy. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 5, 95–118. · DOI 10.1146/annurev-statistics-031017-100641
  • International Working Group for Disease Monitoring and Forecasting (1995). Capture-recapture and multiple-record systems estimation I: History and theoretical development. American Journal of Epidemiology, 142(10), 1047–1058. · DOI 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117558
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See alsoCapture-Recapturemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyCrime Concentration Indexmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyVictimization Survey Methodmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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