ICPSR Metadata record for Ethnicity and Homicide in California, 1850-1900 ICPSR 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/). Ethnicity and Homicide in California, 1850-1900 McKanna, Clare V. Jr. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2006-01-12 9594 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09594.v1
This data collection explores the relationship between homicide and ethnicity in California during 1850-1900. The data are presented in three files. Part 1, Homicide, includes information on time, place, location, and cause of the crime for all murder cases in seven California counties. The relationship between the victim and the accused, and the race, sex, age, and occupation of each are also provided. Part 2, Indictment, includes information on criminal charge, plea, verdict, and sentence for all murder trials in the same seven counties during the time period. Part 3 provides information on all prisoners incarcerated in California for murder. Included are age, sex, ethnicity, place of birth, and occupation of each prisoner, as well as sentence, disposition of case, years served, and year in which the prisoner was released.
 UniverseScheme09594 Organization09594_1 SES 87-20939 NACJD.XIV ICPSR.XVII.E RCMD.I RCMD.XIII NACJD.VIII crime ethnicity homicide indictments inmates murder offenders plea negotiations sentencing verdicts California, United States 1850 1900 aggregate data Homicides in California, 1850-1900. Data for Parts 1 and 2 are 100-percent samples from seven California counties. The homicide data (Part 1) were obtained from historical documents such as coroner's inquest reports, criminal case files, and newspaper accounts. The indictment data (Part 2) were obtained from the registers of district and superior courts. Data for Part 3 are a 100-percent sample of all felons incarcerated for murder or manslaughter in California, obtained from the registers of the San Quentin and Folsom prisons. prison and court registers, newspapers, county histories, criminal case files, and coroner's inquest reports 1987 1989

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