Police Response to Street Gang Violence in California: Improving the Investigative Process, 1985 (ICPSR 8934)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Malcolm W. Klein; Cheryl L. Maxson; Margaret A. Gordon

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08934.v1

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Summary

This data collection examines gang and non-gang homicides as well as other types of offenses in small California jurisdictions. Data are provided on violent gang offenses and offenders as well as on a companion sample of non-gang offenses and offenders. Two separate data files are supplied, one for participants and one for incidents. The participant data include age, gender, race, and role of participants. The incident data include information from the "violent incident data collection form" (setting, auto involvement, and amount of property loss), and the "group indicators coding form" (argot, tattoos, clothing, and slang terminology).

Citation

Klein, Malcolm W., Maxson, Cheryl L., and Gordon, Margaret A. Police Response to Street Gang Violence in California:  Improving the Investigative Process, 1985. [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08934.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (84-IJ-CX-0052)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1985

Date of Collection

1985
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Sample

Separate gang-designated and non-gang-designated samples were selected from cases that included at least one named or described suspect between the ages of 10 and 30.

Universe

Homicides and violent crimes in five small California jurisdictions.

Data Source

police investigation files

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1988-10-25

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:
  • Klein, Malcolm W., Cheryl L. Maxson, and Margaret A. Gordon. POLICE RESPONSE TO STREET GANG VIOLENCE IN CALIFORNIA: IMPROVING THE INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS, 1985. ICPSR version. Los Angeles, CA: Center for Research on Crime and Social Control [producer], 1986. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08934.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 6 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

1988-10-25 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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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.