National Crime Surveys: Cities, 1972-1975 United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics census data cities crime criminal justice system households victimization ICPSR.XVII.E RCMD.I NACJD.X This sample of the National Crime Survey contains information about victimization in 26 central cities in the United States. The data are designed to achieve three primary objectives: 1) to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, 2) to estimate the numbers and types of crimes not reported to police, and 3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes and permit reliable comparisons over time and between areas of the country. Information about each household or personal victimization was recorded. The data include type of crime (attempts are covered as well), description of offender, severity of crime, injuries or losses, time and place of occurrence, age, race and sex of offender(s), relationship of offenders to victims, education, migration, labor force status, occupation, and income of persons involved. 2006-01-12 aggregate data 7658 10.3886/ICPSR07658.v3 survey forms Atlanta Baltimore Boston Buffalo California Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Dallas Denver Detroit District of Columbia Florida Georgia Houston Illinois Los Angeles Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Miami Michigan Milwaukee Minneapolis Minnesota Missouri New Jersey New Orleans New York (state) New York City Newark Oakland Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland (Oregon) San Diego San Francisco St. Louis Texas United States Wisconsin 1972--1975 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).