Child and Adolescent Injury: Data Sources

 


Data Set
National Incident Based Reporting System/ Uniform Crime

Reporting System

Alias
NIBRS

Data Collection Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Purpose
To collect data on each crime incident for use in law

enforcement administration, operation, and management and

to provide national crime statistics for legislators, municipal

planners and administrators, criminologists and the general

public.

Description
Data collected on each incident and arrest within 22 offense

categories made up of 46 specific crimes and 11 additional

arrest categories.

Special Features
Demographic information on the victim and offender,

victim-offender relationship, type of weapon used, location of

offense, criminal activity and property loss. Chicagop statistics

are posted monthly by police district on Chicago Police

Department web page.

Subject Age Range
All

E-Coding Included
No

Population or Sample
Population

Number of Cases

Geographic Area Covered
National, Illinois, Chicago

Years Available
1995-1998

Years Owned by CHDL
None

CHDL ID#
84

 

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