The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979

(4 datasets; 5,495 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Spelman, William; Brown, Dale K.

Summary: This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975 (ICPSR 7760). Information is included on 4,095 reported incidents of aggravated assault, auto theft, burglary, larceny/theft offenses, forcible rape, and robbery. The data cover citizen calls to police between April 21 and December 7, 1979. There are four files in this collection, one each for Jacksonville, Florida, Peoria, Illinois, Rochester, New York, and San Diego, California. The data are t... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08185.v1

Access Notes

  • One or more data files in this study are set up in a non-standard format, such as card image format. Users may need help converting these files before they can be used for analysis.

What Can I Do With This Collection?