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Governmental responses to crime in the United States, 1948-1978
- Title
- Governmental responses to crime in the United States, 1948-1978 [electronic resource].
- Author
- Jacob, Herbert, 1933-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1985.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79141035
- Summary
- The Governmental Responses to Crime Project was initiated in October 1978 as a result of the rising crime rate in urban areas of the United States and the wide variety of programs seeking to contain it. The project investigated the way in which urban governments, citizens, newspapers and state governments responded to the growth and increasing complexity of crime during the period from 1948 to 1978. Pertinent variables in this data collection include the number of police officers in cities and police expenditures, changes in laws as crime changes, populations, employment rates, family incomes, percent of non-white population, media tracking of crime, city land area, kinds of crimes, crime rates, actual numbers of offenses, penalties given out for crimes committed (time in jail or prison and fines), focus on crimes within certain geographical areas (from within cities or outside the United States), editorial page content, level of prominence of newspaper articles on individual crimes, and the number of editorials relating to specific crimes.
- Series Statement
- ICPSR ; 8076
- Uniform Title
- ICPSR (Series) ; 8076.
- Subject
- Assaults
- Burglary
- Census data
- Cities
- Correctional facilities
- Courts
- Crime > United States
- Crime
- Criminal justice system
- Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
- Felonies
- Government response
- Incident characteristics
- Jail
- Laws
- Local resources
- Media
- News
- Ordinances
- Police departments
- Population characteristics
- Prisons
- Prosecutors
- Rape
- Sentencing
- States
- Theft
- Urban communities
- Victimization
- Genre/Form
- dataset – 1948-1978.
- dataset.
- Note
- Codebook available in print and electronic format.
- Title from title screen (viewed on May 30, 2006).
- Access (note)
- Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.
- File Type (note)
- Extent of collection: 13 data files + machine-readable documentation (text) + OSIRIS dictionary + SPSS data definition statements.
- Event (note)
- Date(s) of collection: October 1978-December 1980.
- Time period: 1948-1978.
- Coverage (note)
- Geographic coverage: Arizona, Atlanta, California, Georgia, Houston, Indiana, Indianapolis, Massachusetts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Jersey, Newark, Oakland, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Jose, Texas, United States.
- Cite As (note)
- Jacob, Herbert. GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSES TO CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES, 1948-1978 [Computer file]. Conducted by Herbert Jacob, Northwestern University. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1985.
- Funding (note)
- Funding agency: United States Department of Justice. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (presently named National Institute of Justice).
- Grant number: 78-NI-AX-0096.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Data format: OSIRIS with SPSS control cards, and card image.
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library