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Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979 (ICPSR 8185)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-18
Geographic coverage: San Diego, United States, Illinois, Peoria, Rochester (New York), California, Florida, New York (state), Jacksonville
Time period: 1979-04-21--1979-12-07
This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975 (ICPSR 7760). Information is included on 4,095 reported incidents of aggravated assault, auto theft, burglary, larceny/theft offenses, forcible rape, and robbery. The data cover citizen calls to police between April 21 and December 7, 1979. There are four files in this collection, one each for Jacksonville, Florida, Peoria, Illinois, Rochester, New York, and San Diego, California. The data are taken from police dispatch records and police interviews of citizens who requested police assistance. Variables taken from the dispatch records include the dispatch time, call priority, police travel time, age, sex, and race of the caller, response code, number of suspects, and area of the city in which the call originated. Variables taken from the citizen interviews include respondent's role in the incident (victim, caller, victim-caller, witness-caller), incident location, relationship of caller to victim, number of victims, identification of suspect, and interaction with police.
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Reactions to Crime in Atlanta and Chicago, 1979-1980 (ICPSR 8215)
Released/updated on: 2005-11-04
Geographic coverage: United States, Chicago, Atlanta, Illinois, Georgia
Two previously released data collections from ICPSR are
combined in this dataset: CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH AND LOW CRIME
NEIGHBORHOODS IN ATLANTA, 1980 (ICPSR 7951) and CRIME FACTORS AND
NEIGHBORHOOD DECLINE IN CHICAGO, 1979 (ICPSR 7952). Information for
ICPSR 7951 was obtained from 523 residents interviewed in six selected
neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia. A research team from the Research
Triangle Institute sampled and surveyed the residents. ICPSR 7952
contains 3,310 interviews of Chicago residents in eight selected
neighborhoods. The combined data collection contains variables on
topics such as residents' demographics and socioeconomic status,
personal crime rates, property crime rates, neighborhood crime rates,
and neighborhood characteristics. The documentation contains three
pieces of information for each variable: variable reference numbers
for both the Atlanta and Chicago datasets, the complete wording of the
questions put to the respondents of each survey, and the exact wording of
the coding schemes adopted by the researchers.