Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-1983 (ICPSR 8657)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
James Alan Fox; Glenn L. Pierce

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08657.v1

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Summary

These Uniform Crime Reports supplementary homicide data provide incident-level information on criminal homicides including information on the date, location, circumstances, and method of offences, as well as demographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators and the relationship between the two.

Citation

Fox, James Alan, and Pierce, Glenn L. Uniform Crime Reports [United States]:  Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-1983. [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08657.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics (84-BJ-CX-0010)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1976-01 -- 1983-12

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data were provided monthly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by local law enforcement agencies participating in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. In 1983, 97% of the United States population was represented by jurisdictions that submitted supplementary homicide data to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Coverage in l976 had been 88%. These data were restructured, reformatted, and cleaned at the Center for Applied Social Research, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Universe

Homicides in the United States from January 1976 thru December 1983.

Data Source

records from police and sheriff departments

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1987-05-19

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:
  • Fox, James Alan, and Glenn L. Pierce. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS [UNITED STATES]: SUPPLEMENTARY HOMICIDE REPORTS, 1976-1983. Boston, MA: Northeastern University, Center for Applied Social Research [producer], 1986. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08657.v1

2006-01-18 File CB8657.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

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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.