Questions tagged [crime]

For questions about data related to crime justice, including but not limited to criminal records, crime prevention, criminology.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0 votes
0 answers
13 views

Comprehensively of FBI Crime Reporting Program

Does anyone know how comprehensive the FBI crime reporting program is? For example, if I wanted to answer the question: how likely is crime x to happen, can I rely on this data* or should I assume ...
  • 101
0 votes
1 answer
63 views

Open data that changes daily for every county in the United States

Is there any open data that changes daily for every county in the United States? I'm working on a project that involves finding patterns in data across counties. I've had a difficult time finding ...
  • 101
0 votes
1 answer
14 views

Gun Homicide Rate per US County

Does anyone know where I might find data for the number of gun homicides per county in 2020, for the entire United States? I can settle for another year if 2020 is not available and I can settle too ...
  • 133
1 vote
0 answers
28 views

How many crimes are alcohol-related vs. drug-related in the US?

I’m having a devil of a time finding any useful information on this subject. I want to know how many crimes were committed under the influence of alcohol vs. drugs (specifically meth, but few sources ...
  • 111
2 votes
0 answers
32 views

Knife crime in the UK/London

Knife crime is a big issue in London. The recent terrorist attack on Tower bridge is another dramatic example. I'm looking for open data on the location of these crimes in London or the UK. I don't ...
3 votes
0 answers
832 views

Crime data @ Zip code level?

I mainly need property-type crimes but all crimes will work. I'm mainly looking for downloadable crime data that is at the ZIP5 level if possible. The more granular the better. The next best would be ...
3 votes
3 answers
6k views

Where can I find the list of NCIC assisiged "Originating Agency Identifier"?

From the docs, provided on the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) user manual, An Originating Agency Identifier (ORI) is a unique nine-character identifier the National Crime ...
1 vote
0 answers
31 views

Crime Data in Canada

Does anybody have any idea where I might find data regarding crime in Canada or whether or not this data even exists?
  • 121
2 votes
1 answer
547 views

Are there any GIS crime datasets open to public?

I am wondering if there is any online resource where GIS crime data are freely available to public. I am interested in shapefiles representing, for instance, neighborhoods, census tracts, location of (...
  • 123
2 votes
2 answers
58 views

Unsolved murder GIS datasets

does anyone know if there are any datasets published regarding unsolved serial murders within the United States?
0 votes
1 answer
46 views

Where can I find detailed data about crimes in Italy?

Where can I find detailed data about crimes committed in Italy? The data set should contain at least the following variables: Type of crime: Year: Municipality: Criminal: Victim: Ethnicity of ...
4 votes
2 answers
88 views

Data set request on domestic violence and the health and economic impacts it has

I am a student and have an assignment on the health and economic impacts of domestic violence. I need a "data set" on domestic violence to run a descriptive analysis for any correlation if any between ...
  • 41
3 votes
1 answer
151 views

Crime statistics by city in Ukraine

I'm searching for a crime statistics by city in Ukraine, especially murder rate. The other crime statistics are also good, though. I couldn't find it in English, so it would be welcomed if it is in ...
  • 517
2 votes
3 answers
371 views

Unsolved murder rates by country/state/municipality

I have read on Hacker News today that The overall solution rate for murder in the US is about 65%. In big cities with dubious police leadership, the solution rate for murder can be under 50%. (...
4 votes
4 answers
253 views

Geocoding of Chicago crime data

The City of Chicago publishes some rich crime data, available e.g. here: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/crimes-2001-to-present-398a4 The address of event crime is partly obscured, so as to read ...
3 votes
3 answers
69 views

Crimes by Block Group for state of Michigan

Is there any crime rate information by Census block group available for Michigan state? Possibly in the for of crime count/amount per block group?
3 votes
0 answers
42 views

Sub-city-level data on criminal behavior – without relying on crime reports?

I am attempting to measure what proportion of crimes committed lead to arrests in Chicago, and whether that rate varies in different parts of the city. I'd like to do this with without relying on ...
  • 31
3 votes
0 answers
31 views

Violent/Non-Violent News Headlines from the Past

Looking for data on news headline grouped by crime type: violent vs nonviolent; for 1993 and 2013 or 2014.
4 votes
1 answer
79 views

Obtaining data sets for solved murder

Ii'd like to do a research project & developing an application which requires a data set of solved murders. Ideally containing: Something unique to the case, like an ID. Solved / unsolved and a ...
user avatar
4 votes
2 answers
125 views

Australian Crime Data

Is there a place that I can get Australian crime data? I was hoping to get a database (or at least be able to crawl such a page) where it is in the format of: [date, incident, location]. The closest ...
  • 383
1 vote
1 answer
295 views

Murder rate by city/state in Germany?

I would like to know the murder rate by city/state in Germany. For example, in Berlin the murder rate per 100,000 people is 1.3, in Hamburg it is 0.9, etc etc... I don't mind if it is murder or ...
  • 517
3 votes
2 answers
162 views

NYC Crime Dataset

I am looking for detailed dataset for NYC Crime similar to the one of Chicago. This dataset doesn't contain a lot of information on when/where and what kind of crimes happened at NYC.
8 votes
1 answer
60 views

Statistics of the yearly amount of beds in private prisons in the US

I'm seeking a list of how many prisoners got incarnated in each year in the US by private prisons compared to state-run facilities. Is such a list publically available?
  • 659
4 votes
3 answers
122 views

Violent crime statistics involving guns

I'm looking for datasets that contain violent crime stats involving guns. I've googled but have only found organised and graphed data and I would prefer raw data that I can aggregate.
2 votes
0 answers
27 views

Infanticide rate, divided by the sex of the murderer

Ideally the data would include a cross-section of countries. Spinelli (2008) writes on p.xx "Although infanticide may be viewed as an act of child abuse (Lowenstein 1997), and males are responsible ...
10 votes
3 answers
736 views

European crime data with spatial coordinates

I am looking for prostitution arrest and drug arrest data for a couple of major cities in Western Europe. So cities such as Paris, Rome, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, etc. Ideally the data would have ...
  • 459
5 votes
1 answer
108 views

# of people convicted of a felony within a census tract? (USA)

I am trying to find any of the following counted by some small geographical unit like census tract or block: --number of arrests per year (maybe by crime type?) within each area --number of ...
  • 153
2 votes
0 answers
141 views

Parking Tickets\Citations (impersonified) data for USA cities

i've been trying to find data on Parking Tickets/Citations for US cities. but it looks like it's really a rare occurrence for just a couple of cities like NY, Baltimore and Toronto My search was ...
  • 21
6 votes
3 answers
127 views

Where can I find criminal data with basic info?

Where can I find a database that compiles US/world criminal data with basic description of the crime? (Preferably with keyword search function) For example, something like: Crime: homicide Year: 20xx ...
10 votes
1 answer
72 views

Data about completed prison term by country

I'm looking data (preferentially free and open data but I can afford small payments) by country worldwide on the percent of population that have completed a prison sentence or were sentenced. I only ...
  • 323
4 votes
0 answers
81 views

Individual-level open geographic data on international human trafficking

I was actually trying to find some open source data on human trafficking. Basically, I was looking for any individual level data where say an individual was picked up by some law enforcement agency ...
  • 459
1 vote
0 answers
73 views

Where can I find adult abduction victim statistics for the United States?

Usually, I can go to the National Crime Victimization Survey's Website for victimization data, but adult abductions are so rare that the Survey doesn't have a category for them.
5 votes
2 answers
631 views

Crime rate data for American cities

I'm writing a paper and I'm interested in monthly crime rates in American cities. The FBI database contains only yearly crime rates and it stops at 2012 (http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/), and each ...
5 votes
3 answers
405 views

Police Misconduct dataset?

Anyone know where I can find a good dataset on police misconducts? I'd like something similar to what RAND current has out on its policemisconduct.org site, but it looks like its pretty much a Twitter ...
  • 153
8 votes
2 answers
748 views

Police precinct jurisdiction data for joining UCR with census

The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) contains crime data by individual police agency: http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/. These agencies have jurisdiction over a town or city, but for any particular city, ...
  • 810
8 votes
4 answers
496 views

Does anyone know of a U.S. city that has crime data with location?

More specifically I want to repeat this study for another city than Chicago: http://blog.uber.com/chicagotaxicrime The data for Chicago: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-...
4 votes
4 answers
120 views

US arrest data in 2010 by race and county

Can some help locate me to where arrest data in 2010 by county and race of arrestee is available? I've been looking at FBI Crime Statistics data but haven't had much luck so far. However, a paper i've ...
  • 151
3 votes
3 answers
67 views

Looking for Arrests Data at a state level across years

I just find out that R comes with a data about arrests in the US on its base package USArrests. This is a interesting data but only for the year 1973. Anybody knows if there is another package with a ...
1 vote
0 answers
53 views

Open database of PCI-DSS violations

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard forces merchants who want to work with Visa/MasterCard/etc to have a firewall, encrypt passwords, send card numbers over HTTPS, etc. Is there a ...
  • 8,266
7 votes
1 answer
169 views

Real-time gunshot detection data?

Was curious whether anyone had successfully obtained access to streaming data from any municipality that uses a "shots fired" detection system like this one. According to their own documentation, the ...
26 votes
5 answers
5k views

How to normalize the data when mapping crime reports?

Most maps using count of reports of crime end up being maps of the population density of cities. An attractive response would be to turn these counts into a rate, but a rate per what? Most commonly, ...
  • 5,118