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Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2015

Name: Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2015
Published: 2017-06-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jacob Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania. Department of Criminology

Version: View help for Version V2

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
shr_1976_2015_csv.zip	application/zip	16.1 MB	04/03/2018 05:37:PM
shr_1976_2015_dta.zip	application/zip	35.3 MB	04/03/2018 05:34:PM
shr_1976_2015_rda.zip	application/zip	10.6 MB	04/03/2018 05:39:PM
shr_1976_2015_sav.zip	application/zip	37.8 MB	04/03/2018 05:30:PM

Project Citation:

Kaplan, Jacob. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-04-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100699V2

Project Description

Summary: This is a single file containing all data from the Supplementary Homicide Reports from 1976 to 2015. The Supplementary Homicide Report provides detailed information about the victim, offender, and circumstances of the murder. Details include victim and offender age, sex, race, ethnicity (Hispanic/not Hispanic), the weapon used, circumstances of the incident, and the number of both offenders and victims.

All the data was downloaded from NACJD as ASCII+SPSS Setup files and cleaned using R. The "cleaning" just means that column names were standardized (different years have slightly different spellings for many columns). Standardization of column names is necessary to stack multiple years together. Categorical variables (e.g. state) were also standardized (i.e. fix spelling errors, have terminology be the same across years).

The following is the summary of the Supplementary Homicide Report copied from ICPSR's 2015 page for the data.

The Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) provide detailed information on criminal homicides reported to the police. These homicides consist of murders; non-negligent killings also called non-negligent manslaughter; and justifiable homicides. UCR Program contributors compile and submit their crime data by one of two means: either directly to the FBI or through their State UCR Programs. State UCR Programs frequently impose mandatory reporting requirements which have been effective in increasing both the number of reporting agencies as well as the number and accuracy of each participating agency's reports. Each agency may be identified by its numeric state code, alpha-numeric agency ("ORI") code, jurisdiction population, and population group. In addition, each homicide incident is identified by month of occurrence and situation type, allowing flexibility in creating aggregations and subsets.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: SHR; murder; homicide

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1976 – 2015

Universe: Victims of homicide in the United States between 1976 and 2015.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source: United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Unit(s) of Observation: Incident

Geographic Unit: Police agency

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