Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Arson, United States, 2015 (ICPSR 36793)

Version Date: May 18, 2017

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

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36793.v1

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Summary

Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has compiled the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) to serve as periodic nationwide assessments of reported crimes not available elsewhere in the criminal justice system. Seven main classifications of crime were chosen to gauge fluctuations in the overall volume and rate of crime. These seven classifications that eventually became known as the Crime Index included the violent crimes of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. By congressional mandate, arson was added as the eighth Index offense in 1979. Arson is defined as any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc. The arson data files include monthly data on the number of arson offenses reported and the number of offenses cleared by arrest or other means. The counts include all reports of arson received from victims, officers who discovered infractions, or other sources.

Citation

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Arson, United States, 2015. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-05-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36793.v1

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

states, counties, cities

Distributor(s)

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

2015

Date of Collection

2015

Data Collection Notes

  1. 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 Arson data for the years 1975-1997 can be found in UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA [UNITED STATES]: 1975-1997 (ICPSR 9028).

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Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Arson crimes reported by law enforcement agencies in the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

law enforcement agencies

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2017-05-18

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:
  • United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Arson, United States, 2015. ICPSR36793-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-05-18. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36793.v1

2017-05-18 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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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.