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Los Angeles Homicides, 1830-2003

Principal Investigator(s): Monkkonen, Eric H.

Summary: There has been little research on United States homicide rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been no consistent data series on a particular place preceding the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which began its first full year in 1931. To fill this research gap, this project created a data series that spans two centuries on homicides per capita for the city of Los Angeles. The goal was to create a site-specific, individual-based data series that could be used to exam... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03680

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