Political Violence in the United States, 1819-1968 (ICPSR 80)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Sheldon G. Levy

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00080.v1

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Summary

The data contained in this study deal with incidents of political and social violence in the United States from 1819 to 1968. Three indices of political violence used are the number of violent events, the number of deaths resulting from the events, and the number of injuries resulting from the events. Data are provided on the date of the violent event, nature of the target, number of attackers, level of violence by individual attacker and by a group of attackers, respectively, motivation or reason for the attack, numbers of deaths and injuries to targeted individuals and to attackers, type of attacker, property damage, and number of pages in newspaper issue devoted to the event. The data were originally collected in connection with the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (established in 1968).

Citation

Levy, Sheldon G. Political Violence in the United States, 1819-1968. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00080.v1

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Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1819 -- 1968

Data Collection Notes

  1. See also the related data collection STUDY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE ATTITUDES, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH VIOLENCE, EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO ASSASSINATION AND VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA, 1968 (ICPSR 7354).

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Sample

Random sample.

Universe

Violent events in the United States in the period 1819-1968.

Data Source

(1) Washington (DC) National Intelligence, 1819-1850, and (2) NEW YORK TIMES, 1851-1968

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

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:
  • Levy, Sheldon G. Political Violence in the United States, 1819-1968. ICPSR00080-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00080.v1

1984-05-03 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:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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