Effects of Local Sanctions on Serious Criminal Offending in Cities with Populations Over 100,000, 1978-1983: [United States]
Description
These data assess the effects of the risk of local jail
incarceration and of police aggressiveness in patrol style on rates of
violent offending. The collection includes arrest rates for public
order offenses, size of county jail populations, and numbers of new
prison admissions as they relate to arrest rates for index (serious)
crimes. Data were collected from seven sources for each city. CENSUS
OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: SUMMARY TAPE FILE 1A
(ICPSR 7941), provided county-level data on number of persons by race,
age, and age by race, number of persons in households, and types of
households within each county. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980
[UNITED STATES]: SUMMARY TAPE FILE 3A (ICPSR 8071), measured at the
city level, provided data on total population, race, age, marital
status by sex, persons in household, number of households, housing,
children, and families above and below the poverty level by race,
employment by race, and income by race within each city. The Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1980 data provided variables on total
offenses and offense rates per 100,000 persons for homicides, rapes,
robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle
offenses, and arson. Data from the FBI for 1980-1982, averaged per
100,000, provided variables for the above offenses by sex, age, and
race, and the Uniform Crime Report arrest rates for index crimes
within each city. The NATIONAL JAIL CENSUS for 1978 and 1983 (ICPSR
7737 and ICPSR 8203), aggregated to the county level, provided
variables on jail capacity, number of inmates being held by sex, race,
and status of inmate's case (awaiting trial, awaiting sentence,
serving sentence, and technical violations), average daily jail
populations, number of staff by full-time and part-time, number of
volunteers, and number of correctional officers. The JUVENILE
DETENTION AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY CENSUS for 1979 and 1982-1983
(ICPSR 7846 and 8205), aggregated to the county level, provided data
on the number of individuals being held by type of crime and sex, as
well as age of juvenile offenders by sex, average daily prison
population, and payroll and other expenditures for the institutions.