Crime in Western societies, 1945-1974
By: principal investigators, Ted Robert Gurr and Erika Gurr
Series: ICPSR -- 7769; ICPSR (Series) -- 7769
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Criminal statistics
Description: These data were collected from national statistical sources. Data on population and eight categories of crime were gathered for as many years as possible between 1945 and 1974. Both convictions and offenses known to police were recorded whenever possible. There are variables for each case including percent yearly change and population-weighted measures of the incidence of each offense.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Chronological coverage: 1945-1974.

16 western societies plus Israel and Japan.

502 cases, 67 variables.

Gurr, Ted Robert. "Crime Trends in Modern Democracies Since 1945," International Annals of Criminology, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 1977, pp. 41-86.

Gurr, Ted Robert. "On the History of Violent Crime in Europe and America," in Violence in America, Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr (eds.), rev. ed. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979.