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Description & Citation--Study No. 9998 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 9998 |
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| Title: | Arrests As Communications to Criminals in St. Louis, 1970, 1972-1982 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Carol W. Kohfeld |
| John Sprague | |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. |
| Grant Number: | 84-IJ-CX-0032 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Kohfeld, Carol W., and John Sprague. ARRESTS AS COMMUNICATIONS TO CRIMINALS IN ST. LOUIS, 1970, 1972-1982 [Computer file]. ICPSR09998-v1. Los Altos, CA: Sociometrics Corporation [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This data collection was designed to assess the deterrent effects over time of police sanctioning activity, specifically that of arrests. Arrest and crime report data were collected from the St. Louis Police Department and divided into two categories: all Uniform Crime Reporting Program Part I crime reports, including arrests, and Part I felony arrests. The police department also generated geographical ''x'' and ''y'' coordinates corresponding to the longitude and latitude where each crime and arrest took place. Part 1 of this collection contains data on all reports made to police regarding Part I felony crimes from 1970 to 1982 (excluding 1971). Parts 2-13 contain the yearly data that were concatenated into one file for Part 1. Variables in Parts 2-13 include offense code, census tract, police district, police area, city block, date of crime, time crime occurred, value of property taken, and ''x'' and ''y'' coordinates of crime and arrest locations. Part 14 contains data on all Part I felony arrests. Included is information on offense charged, the marital status, sex, and race of the person arrested, census tract of arrest, and ''x'' and ''y'' coordinates. |
| Subject Term(s): | arrest rates, arrests, crime mapping, crime statistics, deterrence, felony offenses |
| Geographic Coverage: | Missouri, St. Louis, United States |
| Time Period: | 1970; 1972 - 1982 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1982 - 1984 |
| Universe: | All Uniform Crime Reporting Program Part I police reports and felony arrests made by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department between 1970 and 1982, excluding 1971. |
| Data Type: | event/transaction data, and census data |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | police reports and arrest data from the Planning Department of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department |
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: | 1993-10-02 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04. |
| 2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 15 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. | |
| 1999-06-02 - SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been added to this collection. Also, the codebook has been converted to a PDF file. | |
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