Reactions to Crime Project, 1977 (Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco) - Survey on Fear of Crime and Citizen Behavior

• NCJ Number: 96100
• Date Published: 1984
• Length: 152 pages
• Grant Number(s): 77-NI-99-0018; 78-NI-AX-0057
• Corporate Author: Northwestern University
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This codebook presents the questionnaire and the coding used in a 1977 survey of citizen reactions to crime in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

Abstract

A total of 5,121 interviews were completed. Respondents were asked for self-reports of events and conditions in their home areas, their use of the media, their perceptions about crime in their communities, and what they had done to reduce their chances of being victimized. Some questions focused specifically on sexual assault. Explanations of the information for a typical variable in the machine-readable codebook are included.