Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979 (ICPSR 8185)

Published: Jan 18, 2006

Principal Investigator(s):
William Spelman; Dale K. Brown

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08185.v1

Version V1

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Project Description

Summary

This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975 (ICPSR 7760). Information is included on 4,095 reported incidents of aggravated assault, auto theft, burglary, larceny/theft offenses, forcible rape, and robbery. The data cover citizen calls to police between April 21 and December 7, 1979. There are four files in this collection, one each for Jacksonville, Florida, Peoria, Illinois, Rochester, New York, and San Diego, California. The data are taken from police dispatch records and police interviews of citizens who requested police assistance. Variables taken from the dispatch records include the dispatch time, call priority, police travel time, age, sex, and race of the caller, response code, number of suspects, and area of the city in which the call originated. Variables taken from the citizen interviews include respondent's role in the incident (victim, caller, victim-caller, witness-caller), incident location, relationship of caller to victim, number of victims, identification of suspect, and interaction with police.

Citation

Spelman, William, and Brown, Dale K. Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08185.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (78-NI-AX-0107)

Subject Terms

assault auto theft burglary citizen crime reporting larceny offenses police citizen interactions police protection police reports rape robbery victims witnesses

Geographic Coverage

San Diego United States Illinois Peoria Rochester (New York) California Florida New York (state) Jacksonville

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1979-04-21 -- 1979-12-07

Date of Collection

1979-04-21 -- 1979-12-07

Methodology

Data Type(s)

administrative records data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1985-03-18

Version Date

2006-01-18

Version History

2006-01-18 File CB8185.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

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.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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.