Details

Subject(s)

• Homicide—United States [Browse]
• United States [Browse]

Related name

• Riedel, Marc [Browse]
• Zahn, Margaret A. [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 8936. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 8936

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This dataset contains detailed information on homicides in eight United States cities: Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Dallas, Oakland, and ''Ashton'' (a representative large western city). Detailed characteristics for each homicide victim include time and date of homicide, age, gender, race, place of birth, marital status, living arrangement, occupation, socioeconomic status (SES), employment status, method of assault, location where homicide occurred, relationship of victim to offender, circumstances surrounding death, precipitation or resistance of victim, physical evidence collected, victim's drug history, victim's prior criminal record, and number of offenders identified. Data on up to two offenders and three witnesses are also available and include the criminal history, justice system disposition, and age, sex, and race of each offender. Information on the age, sex, and race of each witness also was collected, as were data on witness type (police informant, child, eyewitness, etc.). Finally, information from the medical examiner's records including results of narcotics and blood alcohol tests of the victim are provided.... Cf.: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/08936.xml

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Type of data

1 data file + machine-readable documentation (text) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system

Geographic coverage

California, Chicago, Dallas, Illinois, Memphis, Missouri, New Jersey, Newark, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Tennessee, Texas, United States

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. 79-NI-AX-0092

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

Universe: Cases in the United States defined by each city's police department and medical examiner as homicide.

Contents

Part 1: Data File; Part 2: SAS Data Definition Statements

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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