Calls for Service to Police as a Means of Evaluating Crime Trends in Oklahoma City, 1986-1988 (ICPSR 9669)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Robert J. Jr. Bursik; Harold G. Grasmick; Mitchell B. Chamlin

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1

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Summary

In an effort to measure the effectiveness of crime deterrents and to estimate crime rates, calls for assistance placed to police in Oklahoma City over a two-year period were enumerated. This type of call was studied in order to circumvent problems such as "interviewer's effect" and sampling errors that occur with other methods. The telephone calls were stratified by police district, allowing for analysis on the neighborhood level to determine whether deterrence operates ecologically--that is, by neighbors informing one another about arrests which took place as a result of their calls to the police. In measuring deterrence, only the calls that concerned robbery were used. To estimate crime rates, calls were tallied on a monthly basis for 18 types of offenses: aggravated assault, robbery, rape, burglary, grand larceny, motor vehicle theft, simple assault, fraud, child molestation, other sex offenses, domestic disturbance, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, vice and drugs, petty larceny, shoplifting, kidnapping/hostage taking, and suspicious activity.

Citation

Bursik, Robert J. Jr., Grasmick, Harold G., and Chamlin, Mitchell B. Calls for Service to Police as a Means of Evaluating Crime Trends in Oklahoma City, 1986-1988. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (86-IJ-CX-0076)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1986-06 -- 1988-06

Date of Collection

1986-06 -- 1988-06
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Data Source

computer-recorded logs of emergency calls placed to the police department of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Original Release Date

1992-01-10

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Bursik, Robert J. Jr., Harold G. Grasmick, and Mitchell B. Chamlin. Calls for Service to Police as a Means of Evaluating Crime Trends in Oklahoma City, 1986-1988. ICPSR09669-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09669.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.