The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Description & Citation--Study No. 4179

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

04179

Title:

Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2002

Principal Investigator(s):

Fox, James Alan, Northeastern University. College of Criminal Justice

Funding:

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Bibliographic Citation:

Fox, James Alan. Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2002. ICPSR04179-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04179.v1

Series:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

These data provide incident-level information on criminal homicides including location, circumstances, and method of offense, as well as demographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators and the relationship between the two. The data were provided monthly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by local law enforcement agencies participating in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Subject Terms:

arrests, crime rates, crime reporting, crime statistics, homicide, justifiable homicide, law enforcement, offenders, offenses, Uniform Crime Reports, victims

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 1976--2002

Date of Collection:
  • 1976--2002

Unit of Observation:

individuals

Universe:

Homicides in the United States from January 1976 through December 2002.

Data Types:

aggregate data, event/transaction data, survey data

Methodology

Sample:

inap.

Data Source:

records from police and sheriff's departments

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

2005-02-18

Version History:

  • 2006-01-18 File CB4179.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Offender Data
  • DS2: Victim Data