Entry:

Reiss, Albert J., Jr., "Public Safety: Marshalling Crime Statistics," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 453 (January, 1981), 222-236.


Abstract:

Statistics on crime are discussed in terms of what should be presented and how. Alternate meanings to the term "serious crime" are suggested to include issues other than violent crime.

GSS Years:

1973, 1974, 1976, 1977

Other Data Sets:

National Crime Survey; UCR; Social Indicators III

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
FEAR

AFRAID TO WALK AT NIGHT IN NEIGHBORHOOD