Police Departments, Arrests, and Crime in the US, 1860-1920

• NCJ Number: 96116
• Author(s): E Monkkonen
• Date Published: 1979
• Length: 24 pages
• Corporate Author: University of California, Los Angeles
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This codebook lists the variables and coding for a data set covering arrests for specific offenses, persons dismissed or held, police personnel, and population for 23 American cities in the years 1860-1920.

Abstract

An introduction describes the study and discusses file structure, processing information, and codebook information. The time series data for the 23 cities came from police annual reports found in the Library of Congress or in newspapers and legislative reports located elsewhere. Variables in the raw data file include arrests for drunkenness, conditional offenses, and homicides; persons dismissed or held; police personnel; and population. The second file aggregates by year and reports some of these variables on a per capita basis using a linear interpolation from the last decadal census to estimate population. (Author summary modified)