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| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: National Opinion Survey of Crime and Justice, 1995: National Data DESCRIPTION: The survey questions concern neighborhood atmosphere and presentation of crime in the media, worries regarding possible attacks--both robbery and physical attacks, confidence in and opinions of police and their effectiveness, problems dealing with courts, and attitudes regarding prisoners and prisons, drug laws, and drug problems, and juvenile gangs. Other questions focus on attitudes concerning the death penalty, guns, and the availability of firearms. Additional information expands on the respondent's sources of crime news and gang related questions are included. Demographic information on respondents includes sex, age, race, income, education, and religion. Population: Individual in the continental United States with a telephone in their residence. Sampling: The survey employed a random sampling design. The response rate from those sampled was 65%. Sample Size = 1,005 Download NOSCJ dataset NOSCJ DATASET modified for Student Version of SPSS Download NOSCJ codebook |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: Uniform Crime Reports 1995 (State Level Data) DESCRIPTION: SPSS data file containing state-level data from the Uniform Crime Report study, 1995. Download ucrstate.sav Download ucrcb.pdf ucrcb.pdf: Codebook for Uniform Crime Report county-level arrest and report data file AND the state-level arrest and report data file. This is a PDF file and must be read using Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0, and is not readable with WORD or WORDPERFECT. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge at www.adobe.com/homepage.html. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: Uniform Crime Reports 1995 (County Level Data) DESCRIPTION: SPSS data file containing state-level data from the Uniform Crime Report study, 1995. Download ucr.sav Download ucrcb.pdf ucrcb.pdf: Codebook for Uniform Crime Report county-level arrest and report data file AND the state-level arrest and report data file. This is a PDF file and must be read using Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0, and is not readable with WORD or WORDPERFECT. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge at www.adobe.com/homepage.html. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities (Sample of Original Data Set) Download SISCF 1997 sampled data set DESCRIPTION: The following data set is a sample of a survey conducted by the Bureau of Census. This original survey (Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities 1997) provides nationally representative data on state prison inmates and sentenced federal inmates held in federally owned and operated facilities. Through personal interviews from June -October 1997, inmates in both state and federal prisons provided information about their current offense and sentence, criminal history, family background, gang membership, and prison activities, programs, and services. *Since this is only a sampled version of this data, some of these variables and characteristics may not be present (1000 cases and 237 variables). The entire data set can be downloaded from ICPSR. Click here, to visit the ICPSR website.. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: DESCRIPTION: Sampled data from the 2000 General Social Survey (n = 1500). Download 2000 General Social Survey. Download 2000 General Social Survey (criminal justice data), Part 1 Download 2000 General Social Survey (criminal justice data), Part 2 |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: DESCRIPTION: A sample of 1400 college students from the 1993 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. Download 1993 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: DESCRIPTION: Historical data on Chicago's police expenditures, number of police employees, number of non-traffic arrests, and number of murder arrests from 1876 to 1973. Download Historical Chicago Data. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: DESCRIPTION: 1993 Uniform Crime Reports (state-level data). Download 1993 UCR state-level data. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: DESCRIPTION: Criminal Justice Data on 78 countries. Download World Criminal Justice Data. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: DESCRIPTION: The following data set was created by using a convenience sampling technique where 145 students at a midwestern university were surveyed concerning their beliefs and practices relating to alcohol and drug use. Also included in the survey were questions relating to demographics, college life, parental beliefs and practices concerning alcohol and drug use, attitudes about religion, questions about their relationship with their parents, their work history, and so on. If you would like to download the specific survey that was distributed, click here. If you have further questions concerning this dataset, contact Lindsay Ejnik <ejnikl36@uwosh.edu>, the researcher primarily responsible for collecting this data. Download Alcohol and Drug Survey. |
| FREELY AVAILABLE SPSS DATA: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Student Attitude and Drug Survey: 2006 DESCRIPTION: During the fall and spring semester of 2006 UWO undegraduate students were randomly selected to complete this survey (more info on this survey will be posted soon. Download UWODS dataset |
| FREELY AVAILABLE GIS DATA (SHAPE FILES): DESCRIPTION: GIS shapefiles for Marion County Indiana (country where Indianapolis is located). These shapefiles include Marion County, as well as, water (lakes, reservoirs, and so on), key locations, and census tract data. If you are one of my CRIM 375 (GIS) students, you will need these data for Project 1. You should place all of these files within the same directory. If I were you, I would name this directory: Project 1. To download the Marion County (Indiana) shapefile data, you will need to download all of the following files: tgr18097ctycu.shp tgr18097ctycu.dbf tgr18097ctycu.shx To download the "Key Places" shapefile data for Marion County (Indiana), you will need to download all of the following files: tgr18097placecu.shp tgr18097placecu.dbf tgr18097placecu.shx To download the "census tract" shapefile data for Marion County (Indiana), you will need to download all of the following files: tgr18097trt00.shp tgr18097trt00.dbf tgr18097trt00.shx To download the "water" shapefile data for Marion County (Indiana), you will need to download all of the following files: tgr18097wat.shp tgr18097wat.dbf tgr18097wat.shx FREELY AVAILABLE GIS DATA (SHAPE FILES): DESCRIPTION: GIS shapefiles for the state of Wisconsin. These shapefiles can be used to create a map that reflects the homicide rates and counts for Wisconsin Counties in 1960. If you are one of my CRIM 375 (GIS) students, you will need these data for Project 2. You should place all of these files within the same directory. If I were you, I would name this directory: Project 2. If you would like to download a "how to" guide for project 2, click here. Wisconsin.dbf Wisconsin.sbn Wisconsin.sbx Wisconsin.shp Wisconsin.shx FREELY AVAILABLE GIS DATA (SHAPE FILES): DESCRIPTION: GIS shapefiles for homicide rates and counts in the United States (1960 - 1990). If you are one of my CRIM 375 (GIS) students, you will need these data for Project 4 and Project 5. You should place all of these files within the same directory. If I were you, I would name this directory: Project 4 and 5. nat.shp nat.dbf nat.shx |