Homicides in Chicago, 1965-1995

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Principal Investigator(s): Block, Carolyn Rebecca; Block, Richard L.; Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority

Summary: These datasets contain information on every homicide in the murder analysis files of the Chicago Police Department for the years 1965-1995. For the victim-level file, Part 1, data are provided on the relationship of victim to offender, whether the victim or offender had previously committed a violent or nonviolent offense, time of occurrence and place of homicide, type of weapon used, cause and motivation for the incident, whether the incident involved drugs, alcohol, gangs, child abuse, ... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06399.v5

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