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Description & Citation--Study No. 8612

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8612
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08612
 
Title:Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective, 1900-1974
 
Principal Investigator(s):Dane Archer
 
  Rosemary Gartner
 
Funding Agency:National Institute for Mental Health
 
  Guggenheim Foundation
 
  German Marshall Fund of the United States
 
Grant Number:MH-27427
 
Bibliographic Citation:Archer, Dane, and Rosemary Gartner. Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective, 1900-1974 [Computer file]. ICPSR08612-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987-02-26. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08612
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection provides comparative, cross-national, longitudinal data on rates of violent and nonviolent crimes for every country in the world over a period of 74 years. The study was designed to supply both comparative breadth and historical depth. Data were compiled from 110 nations and 44 urban places over periods up to 74 years, 1900-1974. Information is included on murder, rape, robbery, assault, theft, and population.
 
Subject Term(s):assault, crime, international crime statistics, murder, rape, robbery, violence
 
Geographic Coverage:Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, Latin America, North America, South America
 
Time Period:1900 - 1974
 
Date(s) of Collection:1972 - 1982
 
Universe:All countries in the world.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:Two FORTRAN command files are supplied and can be used in conjunction with Part 1, Crime File (With Comments), to output crime rates and raw crime figures for each country. Part 3, Crime File (Data Only), contains the data from Part 1 without the non-data comments. The SAS and SPSS data definition statements are only for Part 3. Other than the record layouts and country and city codes, the only documentation provided for all data files is the comment statements from the FORTRAN files. The study title was changed to include the years 1973 and 1974, since records are present in the data for those years.
 

Methodology

Data Source:correspondence with national and metropolitan government sources, annual statistical reports, published annual crime data
 

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.
 
Restrictions:Users are asked to send copies of articles based on the data to: Dane Archer, Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1987-02-26
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 6 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 6 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
  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: Crime File (With Comments)
  • DS2: Eight Crime File
  • DS3: Crime File (Data Only)
  • DS4: Codebook for All Parts
  • DS5: SAS Data Definition Statements for Crime File (Data Only)
  • DS7: Second FORTRAN Program for Crime File (With Comments)
 

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