Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-1994 (ICPSR 6754)
Version Date: Jan 18, 2006 View help for published
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James Alan Fox
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06754.v1
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These data provide incident-level information on criminal homicides including date, 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. For this dataset, the original Uniform Crime Reports data were completely restructured into a nested, or hierarchical, form with repeating offender records. Specifically, the file contains one record for each agency per year (record type "A"), nested within which is one record per incident (record type "I"). Victim records (record type "V") are in turn nested within incident records, and offender data are repeated for all offenders on each victim record. The data file structure is the same as that used in UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS [UNITED STATES]: SUPPLEMENTARY HOMICIDE REPORTS, 1976-1992 (ICPSR 6387), except that negligent manslaughters, justifiable homicides, and one variable (RETAHOM) are not available in this updated file. Part 2, ORI List, contains Originating Agency Identifier codes used by the FBI, along with the corresponding agency name.
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These data were restructured, reformatted, and cleaned at the College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Homicides in the United States from January 1976 through December 1994.
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records from police and sheriff departments
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1996-10-01
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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, 1976-1994. ICPSR06754-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06754.v1
2006-01-18 File CB6754.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2002-03-01 Corrections were made to the introduction of the codebook, which is now being distributed as a PDF file. The SAS data definition statement file is no longer designated as a separate part. The part numbers were adjusted accordingly.
1996-10-01 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:
- Standardized missing values.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- 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.