Overview of the two national measures of U.S. crime -- Introduction to the National Crime Victimization Survey -- Introduction to the Uniform Crime Reporting program -- What is convergence and what do we know about it? -- Sources of divergence in the NCVS -- Methodological change in the NCVS and the effect on convergence -- Series victimizations and divergence -- Exploring differences in estimates of visits to emergency rooms for injuries from assaults using the NCVS and NHAMCS -- Sources of divergence in the UCR -- Using NIBRS to study methodological sources of divergence between the UCR and NCVS -- Explaining the divergence between UCR and NCVS aggravated assault trends -- Missing UCR data and divergence of the NCVS and UCR trends.
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