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2008 Crime in the United States

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Justice
Sub-Agency	Federal Bureau of Investigation
Category	Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons
Date Released	14-Sep-2009
Date Updated	01-Sep-2009
Time Period	January 2008 through December 2008
Frequency	annual
Description	Extraction of offense, arrest, and clearance data as well as law enforcement staffing information from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

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Number of Downloads

707

Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Statistical
Keywords	FBI, Crime in the United States, Violent Crime, Murder, Forcible Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Property Crime, Burglary, Larceny Theft, Motor Vehicle Theft, Arson, Clearances, Arrests, Police Employees
Unique ID	1581

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. (September 2009). Crime in the United States, 2008. Retrieved (insert date), from http://www.fbi.gov/ (Insert the rest of publication URL here.).
Agency Program Page	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/documents/index.html

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	Offense, arrest, clearance, or person (person is unit of count for police employee)
Granularity	City
Geographic Coverage	United States, State, Region, City, County, MSA

Data Description

Collection Mode	Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program via state UCR programs and direct contributing agencies (person/computer/paper).
Data Collection Instrument	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Data Dictionary/Variable List	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/about/index.html

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/about/index.html
Additional Metadata	http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/about/index.html

Statistical Information

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Statistical Characteristics

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