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Description & Citation--Study No. 4125

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

4125

Title:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 2003

Alternate Title:

UCR Supplementary Homicide Reports, 2003

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Bibliographic Citation:

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 2003 . ICPSR04125-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-07-06. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04125.v1

Series:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has compiled the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) to serve as a periodic nationwide assessment of reported crimes not available elsewhere in the criminal justice system. Each year, this information is reported in four types of files: (1) Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest, (2) Property Stolen and Recovered, (3) Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), and (4) Police Employee (LEOKA) Data. The Supplementary Homicide Reports provide incident-based information on criminal homicides reported to the police. These homicides consist of murders, non-negligent manslaughter, and justifiable homicides. The data, provided monthly by UCR agencies, contain information describing the victim of the homicide, the offender, and the relationship between victim and offender.

Subject Terms:

arrests, crime rates, crime reporting, crime statistics, homicide, justifiable homicide, law enforcement, offenders, offenses, Uniform Crime Reports, victims

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 2003

Date of Collection:
  • 2003

Universe:

Homicide incidents reported by law enforcement agencies.

Data Types:

aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

Starting with the year 1998, each of the four parts of the UCR data collection archived by ICPSR is released as a separate study under its own study number. The Supplementary Homicide Reports data for the years 1975-1997 can be found in UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 9028).

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:

self-enumerated questionnaire

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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • 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:

2005-07-06