Nature and Patterns of Homicide in Eight American Cities, 1978 Zahn, Margaret A. Riedel, Marc demographic characteristics drug use evidence homicide offenders substance abuse victims NACJD.XIV ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.VIII This dataset contains detailed information on homicides in eight United States cities: Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Dallas, Oakland, and "Ashton" (a representative large western city). Detailed characteristics for each homicide victim include time and date of homicide, age, gender, race, place of birth, marital status, living arrangement, occupation, socioeconomic status (SES), employment status, method of assault, location where homicide occurred, relationship of victim to offender, circumstances surrounding death, precipitation or resistance of victim, physical evidence collected, victim's drug history, victim's prior criminal record, and number of offenders identified. Data on up to two offenders and three witnesses are also available and include the criminal history, justice system disposition, and age, sex, and race of each offender. Information on the age, sex, and race of each witness also was collected, as were data on witness type (police informant, child, eyewitness, etc.). Finally, information from the medical examiner's records including results of narcotics and blood alcohol tests of the victim are provided. 2005-11-04 event/transaction data 8936 10.3886/ICPSR08936.v1 official records of the medical examiner and police department in each city California Chicago Dallas Illinois Memphis Missouri New Jersey Newark Pennsylvania Philadelphia St. Louis Tennessee Texas United States 1978 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/).