Police response to street gang violence in California
Subtitle: improving the investigative process, 1985
By: principal investigators, Malcolm W. Klein, Cherly L. Maxson and Margaret A. Gordon
Series: ICPSR -- 8934; ICPSR (Series) -- 8934
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Gangs; Criminal investigation; Police patrol; Specialized units
Description: This data collection examines gang and non-gang homicides as well as other types of offenses in small California jurisdictions. Data are provided on violent gang offenses and offenders as well as on a companion sample of non-gang offenses and offenders. Two separate data files are available, one for participants and one for incidents. The participant data include age, gender, race, and role of participants. The incident data include information from the "violent incident data collection form" (setting, auto involvement, and amount of property loss), and the "group indicators coding form" (argot, tattoos, clothing, and slang terminology).
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Police investigation files.

Event/transaction data.

California.

United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. 84-IJ-CX-0052.

Card Image data format.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Incidents. ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 273 ; variable count: 94 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Participants. ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,006 ; variable count: 8 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 1.

Separate gang-designated and non-gang-designated samples were selected from cases that included at least one named or described suspect between the ages of 10 and 30.

Universe: Homicides and violent crimes in five small California jurisdictions.

Klein, M.W., M.A. Gordon, and C.L. Maxson. "The Impact of Police Investigations on Police-Reported Rates of Gang and Non-Gang Homicides." Criminology 24 (1986), 489-512.

Klein, M.W., M.A. Gordon, and C.L. Maxson. "Differences Between Gang and Non-Gang Homicides." Criminology 23 (1985), 209-222.

Klein, M.W., C.L. Maxson, and M.A. Gordon. Evaluation of an imported gang violence deterrence program: final report. University of Southern California, 1984.