National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
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Calls for Service to Police as a Means of Evaluating Crime Trends in Oklahoma City, 1986-1988 (ICPSR 9669)
Principal Investigator(s): Bursik, Robert J. Jr.; Grasmick, Harold G.; Chamlin, Mitchell B.
Summary: 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 ecological... (more info)
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Bursik, Robert J. Jr., Harold G. Grasmick, and Mitchell B. Chamlin. Calls for Service to Police as a Means of Evaluating Crime Trends in Oklahoma City, 1986-1988. ICPSR09669-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1
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Funding
This survey was funded by:
- United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (86-IJ-CX-0076)
Scope of Study
Summary: 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.
Subject Terms: arrests, assault, auto theft, burglary, child abuse, civil disorders, crime patterns, crime prevention, crime rates, deterrence, kidnapping, larceny, neighborhoods, petty theft, rape, robbery, sex offenses
Geographic Coverage: Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, United States
Time Period:
- 1986-06--1988-06
Date of Collection:
- 1986-06--1988-06
Data Types: administrative records data
Methodology
Data Source:
computer-recorded logs of emergency calls placed to the police department of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1992-01-10
Version History:
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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