nmm 22 4500 ICPSR09669 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130520s1992 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR09669 MiAaI MiAaI Calls for Service to Police as a Means of Evaluating Crime Trends in Oklahoma City, 1986-1988 [electronic resource] Robert J. Jr. Bursik , Harold G. Grasmick , Mitchell B. Chamlin 2006-01-12 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1992 ICPSR 9669 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-20. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. In an effort to measure the effectiveness of crime deterrents and to estimate crime rates, calls for assistance placed to police in Oklahoma City over a two-year period were enumerated. This type of call was studied in order to circumvent problems such as "interviewer's effect" and sampling errors that occur with other methods. The telephone calls were stratified by police district, allowing for analysis on the neighborhood level to determine whether deterrence operates ecologically--that is, by neighbors informing one another about arrests which took place as a result of their calls to the police. In measuring deterrence, only the calls that concerned robbery were used. To estimate crime rates, calls were tallied on a monthly basis for 18 types of offenses: aggravated assault, robbery, rape, burglary, grand larceny, motor vehicle theft, simple assault, fraud, child molestation, other sex offenses, domestic disturbance, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, vice and drugs, petty larceny, shoplifting, kidnapping/hostage taking, and suspicious activity. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1 arrests icpsr assault icpsr auto theft icpsr burglary icpsr child abuse icpsr civil disorders icpsr crime patterns icpsr crime prevention icpsr crime rates icpsr deterrence icpsr kidnapping icpsr larceny icpsr neighborhoods icpsr petty theft icpsr rape icpsr robbery icpsr sex offenses icpsr NACJD IX. Police ICPSR XVII.E. Social Institutions and Behavior, Crime and the Criminal Justice System Bursik, Robert J. Jr. Grasmick, Harold G. Chamlin, Mitchell B. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1