Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2001 (ICPSR 3989)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03989.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, 1976-2001. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03989.v1

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1976 -- 2001

Date of Collection

1976 -- 2001

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

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Universe

Homicides in the United States from January 1976 through December 2001.

Unit(s) of Observation

individuals

Data Source

records from police and sheriff's departments

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2004-05-05

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, 1976-2001. Compiled by Northeastern University, College of Criminal Justice. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2004. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03989.v1

2006-01-18 File SA3989.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-18 File SP3989.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-18 File CB3989.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2004-05-05 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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • 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.