Nature and Patterns of Homicide in Eight American Cities, 1978 / Margaret A. Zahn, Marc Riedel.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Zahn, Margaret A.

Riedel, Marc.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 8936.

ICPSR ; 8936

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homicide--United States.

Homicide.

United States.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2005-11-04.

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 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://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08936

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

OCLC:

61161277

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.