The Source for Crime and Justice Data

National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS), 2000

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Principal Investigator(s): Peterson, Ruth D.; Krivo, Lauren J.

Summary: The primary purpose of the National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS) was to assemble tract-level crime and sociodemographic data for cities across the United States in order to permit analyses of the sources of crime for "communities" of different racial-ethnic and class composition. The NNCS also sought to examine the extent to which the causes of crime in communities are contingent on the types of geographic region, labor market, or other contextual characteristics. To fulfill these p... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27501.v1

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