Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race, 2011 (ICPSR 34580)

Published: Jul 17, 2013

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Series:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Series

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34580.v1

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Project Description

Alternate Title

ASR, 2011

Summary

These data provide information on the number of arrests reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program each month by police agencies in the United States. Although not as well known as the ''Crimes Known to the Police'' data drawn from the Uniform Crime Report's Return A form, the arrest reports by age, sex, and race provide valuable data on 43 offenses including violent, drug, gambling, and larceny crimes. The data received by ICPSR were structured as a hierarchical file containing (per reporting police agency) an agency header record, and 1 to 12 monthly header reports, and 1 to 43 detail offense records containing the counts of arrests by age, sex, and race for a particular offense. ICPSR restructured the original data to a rectangular format.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race, 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-07-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34580.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Subject Terms

arrests arson assault auto theft burglary counties crime rates crime reporting crime statistics drug abuse fraud illegal gambling larceny law enforcement murder offenses rape robbery sex offenses Uniform Crime Reports vandalism weapons

Geographic Coverage

United States

Smallest Geographic Unit

states, counties, cities

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

2011

Date of Collection

2011

Methodology

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Arrests reported by law enforcement agencies to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting program.

Unit(s) of Observation

arrest counts

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

survey data

Mode of Data Collection

mail questionnaire

on-site questionnaire

Version(s)

Original Release Date

2013-07-17

Version Date

2013-07-17

Version History

2013-07-17 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.
Standardized missing values.
Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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.

This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.