Details

Editor

• Clarke, Philippa [Browse]
• Melendez, Robert [Browse]
• Chenoweth, Megan [Browse]

Issuing body

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) 38649 [More in this series]
• ICPSR 38649
• National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA)

Summary note

This dataset contains county-level totals for the years 2002-2014 for eight types of crime: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. These crimes are classed as Part I criminal offenses by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in their Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. Each record in the dataset represents the total of each type of criminal offense reported in (or, in the case of missing data, attributed to) the county in a given year.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38649.v1

Type of data

Numeric

Geographic coverage

United States

Methodology note

All counties in the United States, excluding US island territories.

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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