The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Description & Citation--Study No. 8357

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

8357

Title:

Armed Criminals in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons, 1983

Principal Investigator(s):

Wright, James

Rossi, Peter

Funding:

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (82-IJ-CX-0001)

Bibliographic Citation:

Wright, James, and Peter Rossi. Armed Criminals in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons, 1983. ICPSR08357-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08357.v1

Scope of Study

Summary:

The data for this study were collected using self-administered questionnaires given to a nonprobability sample of incarcerated felons in ten states. Information in the data include socioeconomic status of the inmate, prior criminal record, drug use, weapon usage, family history, and demographic information.

Subject Terms:

crime, demographic characteristics, drug law offenses, drug use, families, inmates, justice, socioeconomic indicators

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 1983

Data Types:

survey data

Methodology

Data Source:

self-administered questionnaires

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:

  • 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:

1985-05-24

Version History:

  • 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.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Data File
  • DS2: SAS Data Definition Statements