Details

Subject(s)

• Police—Illinois—Chicago [Browse]
• Police—Massachusetts—Boston [Browse]
• Police—Washington (D.C.) [Browse]
• Police-community relations—Illinois—Chicago [Browse]
• Police-community relations—Massachusetts—Boston [Browse]
• Police-community relations—Washington (D.C.). [Browse]

Related name

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

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 9086. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 9086

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

These data have been influential in the development of theories of police behavior. Variables in the collection supply information on the nature and context of encounters between citizens and the police. Data are included on the characteristics and roles of individuals involved in an encounter, relationships among the participants in the encounter, individuals' definitions of the situation after the arrival of police, specific police actions and manner of police behavior during the encounter, and informal characterizations by police of participants involved in the encounter. In cases where offender suspects were involved, information was collected on restraints employed, searches, interrogations, confessions, advisement of rights, booking, and other arrest processes.

Notes

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

Type of data

5 data files + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system

Geographic coverage

Boston, Chicago, District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, United States

Funding information

President's Commission on Law Enforcement and theAdministration of Justice (presently the United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice). OLEA-006

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

Universe: All encounters between citizens and police in major metropolitan areas of the United States.

Contents

Part 1: General Data: Observers' Summary of Recorded Encounters; Part 2: Police Initiated Encounter Data; Part 3: Citizen Initiated Contact with Police in Field Area; Part 4: Police Dispatch Record; Part 5: Service Called-Initiated Encounter

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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