Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2004 (ICPSR 20100)

Version Date: Jul 25, 2007

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Principal Investigator(s):
James Alan Fox, Northeastern University. College of Criminal Justice

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20100.v1

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Summary

These data provide incident-level information on criminal homicides including location, circumstances, and method of offense, as well as demographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators and the relationship between the two. 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.

Citation

Fox, James Alan. Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2004. [distributor], 2007-07-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20100.v1

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1976 -- 2004

Date of Collection

1976 -- 2004
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Universe

Homicides in the United States from January 1976 through December 2004.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

records from police and sheriff's departments

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2007-07-25

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. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS [UNITED STATES]: SUPPLEMENTARY HOMICIDE REPORTS, 1976-2004. 2007. Compiled by Northeastern University, College of Criminal Justice. ICPSR20100-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2007-07-25. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20100.v1

2007-07-25 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.

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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.