Metadata record for Crime in Western Societies, 1945-19747769Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.2024-03-19Crime in Western Societies, 1945-1974776910.3886/ICPSR07769.v3Gurr, Ted RobertGurr, ErikaPlease see full citation.Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research1984-03-182005-11-04On 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.1997-09-19SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been added to this collection.Gurr, Ted Robert, and Erika Gurr. Crime in Western Societies, 1945-1974. ICPSR07769-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07769.v3http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07769.v3convictions (law)crimecriminal justice systempoliceNACJD XIV. Homicide StudiesIDRC VI. Human Dimension of International RelationsNACJD VIII. Official StatisticsICPSR XVII.E. Social Institutions and Behavior, Crime and the Criminal Justice SystemThese data were collected from national statistical sources for 16 western societies plus Israel and Japan. Data on population and eight categories of crime were gathered for as many years as possible between 1945 and 1974. Both convictions and offenses known to police were recorded whenever possible. Variables include percent yearly change and population-weighted measures of the incidence of each offense.1945197419451974Please see geographic coverage.Globalaggregate dataNational statistical sources for 16 Western societies plus Israel and JapanAnn Arbor, Mi.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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