Uniform Crime Reports - National Time Series Community-Level Database, 1967-1980

• NCJ Number: 96090
• Author(s): G L Pierce; W J Bowers; J Baird; J Heck
• Date Published: 1984
• Length: 574 pages
• Grant Number(s): 79-NJ-AX-0009
• Corporate Author: Northeastern University
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This document from the Uniform Crime Reports National Time Series Community-level Data Base, 1967-80, which provides detailed criminal offense and clearance information submitted monthly by over 3,000 consistently reporting law enforcement agencies, contains the variable description list, the codebook, and glossary, along with an introductory section that describes the data collection procedures, file structure, codebook information, and processing information. Data set archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, located at URL http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd.

Abstract

The study data include detailed breakdowns of offenses and clearances taken from disaggregated Uniform Crime Report Return A tapes. Of particular interest are weapon-specific robbery and assault variables; types of rape, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft; and clearances by arrest (or other exceptional means) of adults and juveniles for each offense subtype. Both monthly and annual counts of these are available. The data come in two formats: card-image and OSIRIS.