Police Response to Street Gang Violence in California : Improving the Investigative Process, 1985 / Malcolm W. Klein, Cheryl L. Maxson, Margaret A. Gordon.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Klein, Malcolm W.

Maxson, Cheryl L.

Gordon, Margaret A.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 8934.

ICPSR ; 8934

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangs--California.

Gangs.

Police patrol.

Criminal investigation.

California.

Criminal investigation--California.

Police patrol--California--Specialized units.

United States.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1988.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This data collection examines gang and non-gang homicides as well as other types of offenses in small California jurisdictions. Data are provided on violent gang offenses and offenders as well as on a companion sample of non-gang offenses and offenders. Two separate data files are supplied, one for participants and one for incidents. The participant data include age, gender, race, and role of participants. The incident data include information from the ''violent incident data collection form'' (setting, auto involvement, and amount of property loss), and the ''group indicators coding form'' (argot, tattoos, clothing, and slang terminology).

Contents:

Part 1: Incidents; Part 2: Participants; Part 3: Codebook for All Parts; Part 4: SAS Data Definition Statements for Incidents Data; Part 5: SAS Data Definition Statements for Participants Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61161275

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.