Misclassification of firearm-related violent crime in criminal legal system records: challenges and opportunities

• Main Authors: Julia P. Schleimer (Author), Ayah Mustafa (Author), Rachel Ross (Author), Andrew Bowen (Author), Amy Gallagher (Author), Deirdre Bowen (Author), Ali Rowhani-Rahbar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Criminal legal system data are one source for measuring some types of firearm-related harms, including those that do not necessarily result in injury or death, but measurement can be hampered by imprecise criminal code statutes. We quantified the degree of misclassification in Wa...