Improving the Investigation of Homicide and the Apprehension Rate of Murderers in Washington State, 1981-1986
Description
This data collection contains information on solved murders
occurring in Washington State between 1981 and 1986. The collection is
a subset of data from the Homicide Investigation Tracking System
(HITS), a computerized database maintained by the state of Washington
that contains information on murders and sexual assault cases in that
state. The data for HITS are provided voluntarily by police and
sheriffs' departments covering 273 jurisdictions, medical examiners'
and coroners' offices in 39 counties, prosecuting attorneys' offices
in 39 counties, the Washington State Department of Vital Statistics,
and the Uniform Crime Report Unit of the Washington State Association
of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. Collected data include crime evidence,
victimology, offender characteristics, geographic locations, weapons,
and vehicles.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
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0 |
ICPSR06134.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06134.v1 |
Tags
- sexual-assault
- offender-profiles
- demographic-characteristics
- murder
- police-departments
- victims
- police-records
- evidence
- vehicles
- databases
- homicide
- weapons