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Description & Citation--Study No. 3872

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:3872
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03872
 
Title:Impact of Immigration on Ethnic-Specific Violence in Miami, Florida, 1997
 
Principal Investigator(s):Ramiro Jr. Martinez, Florida International University
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice
 
Grant Number:2001-IJ-CX-0012
 
Bibliographic Citation:Martinez, Ramiro, Jr. IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON ETHNIC- SPECIFIC VIOLENCE IN MIAMI, FLORIDA, 1997 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. North Miami, FL: Florida International University [producer], 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03872
 

Scope of Study

Summary:Does the rate of violent victimization differ across race and ethnic groups? In an effort to answer this question, this study sought to examine the violent victimization rate and the factors influencing ethnic-specific rates of violence in the city of Miami. Administrative data were obtained from the United States Bureau of the Census and the Miami Police Department Research Unit. For the groups of people identified as Afro Americans, Latinos, and Haitians, the numbers who were victims of aggravated assault and robbery in 1997 are included along with the assault and robbery rates for each group. The remaining variables are the percent of female-headed households, percent below poverty line, percent of young males out of the labor force and unemployed, residential instability, vacant and household instability, and the percent of 1980-1990 immigrants.
 
Subject Term(s):aggravated assault, census tract level, crime rates, ethnicity, immigration, race, robbery, victimization, violent crime
 
Smallest Geographic Unit:census tract
 
Geographic Coverage:Florida, Miami, United States
 
Time Period:1997
 
Date(s) of Collection:2001
 
Unit of Observation:census tract
 
Universe:The 70 census tracts in the city of Miami, Florida.
 
Data Type:administrative records data
 
Data Collection Notes:The user guide and codebook are provided by ICPSR as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:The city of Miami was purposively chosen as the city most suited for this study. Researchers chose Miami because it provided an excellent opportunity to examine the race/ethnicity and violence linkage in a high violence city with a racially and ethnically diverse population and a large immigrant population.
 
Data Source:Data were collected from the United States Bureau of Census and the Miami Police Department Research Unit.
 
Response Rates:Not applicable.
 
Presence of Common Scales:None.
 
Extent of Processing:ICPSR checked for undocumented codes, produced a codebook, generated SAS and SPSS data definition statements, converted the hardcopy documentation to a PDF file, and reformatted the data and documentation.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2004-02-27
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.
 
  2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Impact of Immigration on Ethnic-Specific Violence in Miami, Florida, 1997
 

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