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Crime on Campus, 1978-1979 - A Survey of 150 College Campuses and Cities

NCJ Number
100886
Author(s)
A J Lizotte
Date Published
1985
Length
16 pages
Annotation
This manual briefly describes a survey to determine crime patterns on 150 college campuses and their cities and presents the survey codebook, descriptive statistics for variables currently in the data file, and a list of the colleges and their cities.
Abstract
The survey provides information on violent campus crime, property crime on campus, the number of campus police officers, aggregate demographics, and socioeconomic conditions of the students and the cities. Three files comprise the data collection. One file is an SPSS Version 9 file containing control cards, and a second has SPSSx control cards. A third file contains the data. The logical record length is 80 characters. There are approximately 80 variables. The descriptive statistics for variables currently in the data file include the range, mean, and median data for each variable. Data sources are described.