The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Survey of Victimization and Attitudes Towards Crime and Law Enforcement in Boston and Chicago, 1966

(2 datasets; 21,282 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Reiss, Albert J. Jr.

Summary: This data collection was designed to explore attitudes toward crime and the police and to examine factors related to criminal victimization and the reporting of crime incidents to the police. It combines a victimization survey with data on citizens' attitudes toward crime and the police, and information on behavior in response to crime or the threat of crime. Variables provide information about respondents' neighborhood characteristics, individual demographic attributes (e.g., age, rac... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09085.v1

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