Social order in Middletown, 1932-1975
By: principal investigator, John Hewitt
Series: ICPSR -- 9058; ICPSR (Series) -- 9058
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Crime; Criminal statistics
Description: Muncie, Indiana which has more commonly been referred to as "Middletown" in social science studies, is the location for this data collection. The purpose of this study was to examine crime over a period of 43 years. The data were collected from official records of the criminal courts in Muncie and Delaware County, Indiana. The unit of analysis is the criminal act charged. All charges were counted and appropriately categorized. The following rules were observed for cases involving multiple charges or multiple counts of single charges. First, each charge was counted separately when multiple charges were filed. Second, when a defendant was charged with multiple counts of a single charge, each count was considered to be a separate act and so recorded. Variables in this dataset include year of criminal act charge, first, second, and third offenses charged, amount of bail, length of prison term, sex, age, and race of the alleged defendant.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1932-1975.

Muncie, Indiana.

Two of the files are SPSS control cards that are associated with two of the data files. One file has a printed codebook, and the final file contains SPSS control cards followed by data.

The logical record length of each of the six files is 80 characters.