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Description & Citation--Study No. 4179 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 4179 |
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| Title: | Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2002 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | James Alan Fox, Northeastern University. College of Criminal Justice |
| Series: | Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States] Series |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Fox, James Alan. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS [UNITED STATES]: SUPPLEMENTARY HOMICIDE REPORTS, 1976-2002 [Computer file]. Compiled by Northeastern University, College of Criminal Justice. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2005. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | These data provide incident-level information on criminal homicides including location, circumstances, and method of offense, as well as demographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators and the relationship between the two. The data were provided monthly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by local law enforcement agencies participating in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. |
| Subject Term(s): | arrests, crime rates, crime reporting, crime statistics, homicide, law enforcement, offenders, offenses, Uniform Crime Reports, victims |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 1976 - 2002 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1976 - 2002 |
| Unit of Observation: | individuals |
| Universe: | Homicides in the United States from January 1976 through December 2002. |
| Data Type: | event/transaction data, and aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. 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: | inap. |
| Data Source: | records from police and sheriff's departments |
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 LRECL, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2005-02-18 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-02-18. |
| 2006-01-18 - File CB4179.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
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