Uniform Crime Reports: Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest Time Series Data, 1965-1983 (ICPSR 8631)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Glenn L. Pierce; James Alan Fox

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08631.v1

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Summary

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program Data is a system designed to monitor the incidence of crime and the activities of law enforcement agencies at the community level. Participating local law enforcement agencies throughout the nation report regularly (usually on a monthly basis) on the volume of selected crimes and arrests and also on the levels of police personnel and types of police activities. This collection consists of time series data relating to offenses known and clearances by arrest for the years 1965-1983, 1970-1983, and 1975-1983. Only those agencies that consistently reported over the three time periods of the study were included. Consistently reporting agencies were defined as those agencies that were in operation during the time of the study and submitted nine or more monthly reports during the calendar year for the three specified time periods. Variables include number of actual offenses reported to the police, the total number of offenses for each category cleared by arrest, and the number of clearances by arrest involving only persons under 18 years of age. Crimes covered are criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.

Citation

Pierce, Glenn L., and Fox, James Alan. Uniform Crime Reports:  Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest Time Series Data, 1965-1983. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08631.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics (84-BJ-CX-0010)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1965 -- 1983

Date of Collection

1965 -- 1983

Data Collection Notes

  1. These data are organized in rectangular format with variable length records. The longest LRECL is 5,676 characters.

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Universe

All law enforcement agencies in the United States from 1965 to 1983.

Data Source

official Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting Program data

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1990-05-09

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Pierce, Glenn L., and James Alan Fox. Uniform Crime Reports: Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest Time Series Data, 1965-1983. ICPSR08631-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-01-22. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08631.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 43 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.