Uniform crime reports, 1958-1969, and county and city data books, 1962, 1967, 1972, merged data

Description

This dataset includes selected variables and cases from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, 1958-1969, and the County and City Data Books for 1962, 1967, and 1972. Data is reported for all United States cities with a population of 75,000 or more in 1960. The data were taken from a dataset originally created by Alvin L. Jacobson, with further processing by Colin Loftin, and were prepared for use in the ICPSR's Workshop on Data Processing and Data Management in the Criminal Justice Field, in the summer of 1978. Data taken from the Uniform Crime Reports include for each year the number of homicides, forcible rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, larcenies over $50, and auto thefts. Also included is the Total Crime Index, which is the simple sum of all the crimes listed above. Certain variables which describe population characteristics and city finances have been taken from the 1962, 1967, and 1972 County and City Data Books. The dataset contains 162 variables for 172 cases.