Uniform Crime Reports, 1966-1976: Data Aggregated by Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (ICPSR 7743)
Version Date: Feb 16, 1992 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/ICPSR07743.v1
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This data collection contains a revised SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area) aggregate version of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics gathered from 1966-1976, in which original UCR agency records are combined to produce several types of crime rates, by SMSA, for eight crimes. The data were prepared by the Hoover Institution for Economic Studies of the Criminal Justice System, at Stanford University. The data in the file are an aggregation of all relevant law enforcement reporting agencies into 291 SMSAs, and corresponding approximate aggregations of crime rates and dispositions. Each record contains crime rates for one SMSA in one specific year, with data including annual statistics of eight index crimes, i.e., murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Calculations include offense-based clearance rates (the number of clearances of juvenile clearances per reported offense), clearance-based rates (the number of persons charged per offense cleared by arrest), and charge-based rates (the number of persons whose cases were disposed in a particular manner per person charged). A related study is UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS, 1966-1976 (ICPSR 7676).
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This data collection is a revised version of an earlier SMSA aggregate dataset for the years 1966-1976. It was changed in order to employ previously unused information and to improve the usefulness or explanatory power of some of the rate calculations to meaningfully represent the SMSAs.
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The crimes of murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft in the United States in 1966-1976.
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law enforcement agency records
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1984-03-18
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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:
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS, 1966-1976: DATA AGGREGATED BY STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, Hoover Institution for Economic Studies of the Criminal Justice System [producer], 1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1980. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07743.v1
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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.