Age Cohort Arrest Rates, 1970-1980 (ICPSR 8261)
Principal Investigator(s): Greenberg, David F.
Summary:
The data for this collection were gathered from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses and the Uniform Crime Reports for 1970 through 1980. The unit of analysis in this data collection is cities. Included are population totals by age group and arrest data for selected crimes by age group for Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, Knoxville, Tennessee, San Jose, California, Spokane, Washington, and Tucson, Arizona. Population data by sex and age for all cities are contained in Part 4. The 123 variables provide data by age categories ranging from age 5 to age 69. Part 1, the arrest file for Atlanta and Chicago, provides arrest data for 1970 to 1980 by sex and age, ranging from age 10 and under to age 65 and over. The arrest data for other cities span two data files. Part 2 includes arrest data by sex for ages 15 to 24 for the years 1970 to 1980. Part 3 provides arrest data for ages 25 to 65 and over for the years 1970, 1975, and 1980. Arrest data are collected for the following crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, other assaults, arson, forgery, fraud, embezzlement, stolen property, vandalism, weapons, prostitution, other sex offenses, opium abuse, marijuana abuse, gambling, family offenses, drunk driving, liquor law violations, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and all other offenses combined.
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Citation
Greenberg, David F. AGE COHORT ARREST RATES, 1970-1980. ICPSR version. New York, NY: New York University [producer], 1984. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08261.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08261.v1
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Funding
This survey was funded by:
- United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (82-IJ-CX-0025)
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: arrest rates, arrests, census data, crime, offenses, population size
Geographic Coverage: Arizona, Atlanta, California, Chicago, Colorado, Denver, Georgia, Illinois, Knoxville, San Jose, Spokane, Tennessee, Tucson, United States, Washington
Time Period:
- 1970--1980
Date of Collection:
- 1982--1984
Universe: Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, Spokane, Washington, San Jose, California, and Tucson, Arizona.
Data Types: census/enumeration data and aggregate data
Data Collection Notes:
The data collection as received from the principal investigator contained 14 data files. These files were reformatted and combined into four data files by ICPSR.
Methodology
Data Source:
Arrest data were gathered from the Uniform Crime Reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The population data were gathered from the United States Census Bureau.
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1985-03-18
Version History:
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 5 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 5 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
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