Violence and crime in cross-national perspective, 1900-1972
By: principal investigators, Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner
Series: ICPSR -- 8612; ICPSR (Series) -- 8612
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 8088
Subjects: Crime; Cross-cultural studies; Criminal statistics; Violence
Description: The purpose of this data collection was to provide comparative, cross-national, longitudinal data on rates of violent and non-violent crimes for every country in the world over a period of 72 years. The study was designed to supply both comparative breadth and historical depth. Information is included on murder, rape, robbery, assault, and thefts.
Notes: Aggregate data.

Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1900-1972; Data collected: 1972-1982.

Correspondence with national and metropolitan government sources, annual statistical reports, published annual crime data.

National Institute for Mental Health, Guggenheim Foundation, and German Marshall Fund of the United States, MH-27427.

Card Image format.

The machine-readable documentation includes two FORTRAN command files which can be used in conjunction with the data files to output crime rates and raw crime figures for each country. The only documentation provided for these files is the comment statements included in the files.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Crime ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 4,568 ; variable count: 12 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Eight Crime ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,520 ; variable count: 11 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 1.

Universe: All countries in the world.

Archer, Dane, and Rosemary Gartner. Violence and crime in a cross-national perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.