Political violence in the United States, 1819-1968
By: principal investigator, Sheldon G. Levy
Series: ICPSR -- 0080; ICPSR (Series) -- 0080
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Violence; Resistance to Government
Description: Data contained in this study deal with incidents of political and social violence in the United States. The data were originally collected by Professor Sheldon G. Levy of Wayne State University in connection with the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (established 1968). The information contained in this file was gathered from a newspaper sample and includes variables such as date of the violent event, numbers of deaths and injuries resulting from the events, and motivation or reasons for the attack or violent event.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class II.

Chronological coverage: 1819-1868.

United States.

Approximately 800 card-image equivalents.

Levy, Sheldon. "A 150-year Study of Political Violence in the United States," in Violence in America : Historical and Comparative Perspectives/ Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr. New York : Bantam Books, 1969.