SLATS Truck Theft Data of New York City, 1976-1980 (ICPSR 8090)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
John J. Gibbs; Peggy L. Shelly

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08090.v1

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Summary

This data collection is one of three quantitative databases comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on patterns of commercial theft and characteristics of commercial thieves. This data collection examines the methods used to commit various acts of theft that involved a truck or the contents of a truck. These data were collected from the files of a specialized New York City Police Department detective squad called the Safe, Loft, and Truck Squad (SLATS), which was created specifically to investigate commercial truck thefts. The variables include type and value of stolen property, weapon involvement, treatment of driver and helper, suspect characteristics, and recovery information.

Citation

Gibbs, John J., and Shelly, Peggy L. SLATS Truck Theft Data of New York City, 1976-1980. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08090.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (80-IJ-CX-0600)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1976-01 -- 1980-12

Date of Collection

1981-02 -- 1981-04

Sample

A 20-percent sample of all incidents involving grand larceny over $10,000 from trucks and all incidents involving the robbery of a truck, including arrests for these crimes and surveillances of known hijacking rings, in 1979-1980.

Universe

All recorded incidents of crime involving trucks in the files of the Safe, Loft, and Truck detective squad of the New York City Police Department.

Data Source

relevant files of the Safe, Loft, and Truck Squad (SLATS) of the New York City Police Department

Data Type(s)

administrative records data

Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version Date

1992-02-16

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.
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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.