Age-by-Race Specific Crime Rates, 1965-1985 : [United States] Jacqueline Cohen, Richard Rosenfeld.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Cohen, Jacqueline.

Rosenfeld, Richard.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9589.

ICPSR ; 9589

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime and age--United States.

Crime and age.

United States.

Crime and race--United States.

Crime and race.

Criminal statistics--United States.

Criminal statistics.

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], 1991.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

These data examine the effects on total crime rates of changes in the demographic composition of the population and changes in criminality of specific age and race groups. The collection contains estimates from national data of annual age-by-race specific arrest rates and crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary over the 21-year period 1965-1985. The data address the following questions: (1) Are the crime rates reported by the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) data series valid indicators of national crime trends? (2) How much of the change between 1965 and 1985 in total crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary is attributable to changes in the age and race composition of the population, and how much is accounted for by changes in crime rates within age-by-race specific subgroups? (3) What are the effects of age and race on subgroup crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary? (4) What is the effect of time period on subgroup crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary? (5) What is the effect of birth cohort, particularly the effect of the very large (baby-boom) cohorts following World War II, on subgroup crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary? (6) What is the effect of interactions among age, race, time period, and cohort on subgroup crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary? (7) How do patterns of age-by-race specific crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary compare for different demographic subgroups? The variables in this study fall into four categories. The first category includes variables that define the race-age cohort of the unit of observation. The values of these variables are directly available from UCR and include year of observation (from 1965-1985), age group, and race. The second category of variables were computed using UCR data pertaining to the first category of variables. These are period, birth co... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09589

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Start: 1965; and end: 1985.

OCLC:

61163083

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.