Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2001 (ICPSR 3989)
Version Date: Jan 18, 2006 View help for published
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James Alan Fox, Northeastern University, College of Criminal Justice
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03989.v1
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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.
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Homicides in the United States from January 1976 through December 2001.
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records from police and sheriff's departments
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2004-05-05
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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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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.