cjrc-sponsored research

  • Project:
  • Creating a UCR Crime Data Utility

  • Investigator:
  • Michael D. Maltz (Sociology & CJRC)

  • Sponsor:
  • National Institute of Justice (funded, 2001-2006)

  • Abstract:
  • The object of this study was to combine the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual crime data sets from 1960 to 2002, and create agency-level data sets giving the time series of crime, by type, month by month for the entire period. This entailed cleaning the data, e.g., making judgments as to when an agency’s crime count was missing or in error and when a zero signified no crime for that month. The data set was subsequently updated to include 2003 and 2004.

  • Products:
  • NUCR Data Utility:
  • This data set is available from the author upon request.

  • Maltz, Michael D. and Harald E. Weiss. 2006. Codebook for “Creating a UCR Utility,” NCJ 215342. Available here.

  • Reports:
  • Maltz, Michael D. 2006. “Analysis of Missingness in UCR Crime Data,” NCJ 215343. Available here.

  • Maltz, Michael D. and Harald E. Weiss. 2006. “Creating a UCR Utility.” Final report to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Available here.