Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, United States, 2016 (ICPSR 37059)
Version Date: Jan 17, 2019 View help for published
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United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37059.v3
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This data collection contains county-level counts of arrests and offenses for Part I offenses (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson) and counts of arrests for Part II offenses (forgery, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways).
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County
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The Version 2 release includes only All Ages Arrests and Crimes Reported data. Adult and juveniles data for 2016 has not yet been provided by the F.B.I. ICPSR will update this collection once arrests data for Adults (filesets 2 and 6) and Juveniles (filesets 3 and 7) are received.
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Two major changes to the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) county-level files were implemented beginning with the 1994 data. A new imputation algorithm to adjust for incomplete reporting by individual law enforcement jurisdictions was adopted. Within each county, data from agencies reporting 3 to 11 months of information were weighted to yield 12-month equivalents. Data for agencies reporting less than three months of data were replaced with data estimated by rates calculated from agencies reporting 12 months of data located in the agency's geographic stratum within its state. Secondly, a new Coverage Indicator was created to provide users with a diagnostic measure of aggregated data quality in a particular county. Data from agencies reporting only statewide figures were allocated to the counties in the state in proportion to each county's share of the state population.
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In the arrest files (Parts 1-3 and 5-7), data were estimated for agencies reporting zero months based on the procedures mentioned above. However, due to the structure of the data received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), estimations could not be produced for agencies reporting zero months in the crimes reported files (Parts 4 and 8). Offense data for agencies reporting one or two months are estimated using the above procedures. Users are encouraged to refer to the codebook for more information.
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No arrest data were provided for Florida and Illinois. Limited arrest data were provided for Mississippi. Limited crimes reported data were available for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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UCR program staff at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were consulted in developing the new adjustment procedures. However, these UCR county-level files are not official FBI UCR releases and are being provided for research purposes only. Users with questions regarding these UCR county-level data files can contact the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at ICPSR.
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County law enforcement agencies in the United States.
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2018-12-12
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2019-01-17 The DDI files have been updated to resolve a display issue in the Social Science Variables Database.
2018-12-17 The DDI files have been updated to provide frequencies and summary statistics in the Social Science Variables Database.
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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.
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.