Police Performance and Case Attrition in Los Angeles County, 1980-1981 / Joan Petersilia, Allen Abrahamse, James Q. Wilson.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Petersilia, Joan.

Abrahamse, Allen.

Wilson, James Q.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9352.

ICPSR ; 9352

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arrest (Police methods).

Arrest--California--Los Angeles County--Statistics.

Sentences (Criminal procedure)--California--Los Angeles County--Statistics.

Police administration--California--Los Angeles County--Evaluation.

Police administration.

Evaluation.

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

Arrest.

California--Los Angeles County.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The purpose of this data collection was to investigate the effects of crime rates, city characteristics, and police departments' financial resources on felony case attrition rates in 28 cities located in Los Angeles County, California. Demographic data for this collection were obtained from the 1983 COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK. Arrest data were collected directly from the 1980 and 1981 CALIFORNIA OFFENDER BASED TRANSACTION STATISTICS (OBTS) data files maintained by the California Bureau of Criminal Statistics. City demographic variables include total population, minority population, population aged 65 years or older, number of female-headed families, number of index crimes, number of families below the poverty level, city expenditures, and police expenditures. City arrest data include information on number of arrests disposed and number of males, females, blacks, and whites arrested. Also included are data on the number of cases released by police, denied by prosecutors, and acquitted, and data on the number of convicted cases given prison terms.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09352

Contents:

Part 1: Data, Section 1; Part 2: Data, Section 2; Part 3: Data, Section 3; Part 4: Data, Section 4; Part 5: Data, Section 5; Part 6: Data, Section 6; Part 7: Data, Section 7

Notes:

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

Start: 1980; and end: 1981.

OCLC:

61162425

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