Selected Statistical Resources for SOC 759 (Criminological Research)
Spring 2006

Emory's Electronic Data Center

General Social Science Data Resources

Crime Data Sources (U.S. and International)

Social/Political/Economic Data Sources (U.S. and International)

CD-ROM/Non-Web Databases

Emory's Electronic Data Center (217 Woodruff Library)

http://einstein.library.emory.edu - The Data Center home page

http://einstein.library.emory.edu/links.shtml - The Data Freeway, a thematically-organized collection of links to on-line data sources

http://einstein.library.emory.edu/help_index.shtml - Help Pages for databases and data management

http://einstein.library.emory.edu/citation_guide.html - Guide for citation of electronic data sources

http://einstein.library.emory.edu/contact.shtml - Data Center contact information and hours

GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA RESOURCES

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
The ICPSR is the largest collection of Social Science Data in the world. Topics included in the archive include: economics, government, health care, crime, education, etc. This resource is also available via Databases at Emory. The Data Center also maintains an archive of ready-to-use ICPSR datasets which are accessible via the search engine on the Data Center home page.

Lexis-Nexis Statistical
Lexis-Nexis Statistical, which is available via Databases at Emory, allows patrons to search for statistics from the U.S. government and other sources and download them directly into Microsoft Excel.

CRIME DATA SOURCES (U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL)

U.S. Data:

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
The BJS provides a wealth of crime and criminal justice data compiled by the U.S. government and links to available data on other government websites.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
http://www.fbi.gov
The FBI maintains a number of reports on crime and arrests including the Uniform Crime Reports. Data are available here in .pdf and .xls formats.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Crime Statistics
http://www.state.ga.us/gbi/disclucr.html
The GBI maintains state and county-level crime data for the state of Georgia from 1980-2002. The data from the Uniform Crime Reports and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council may be of particular interest.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
The NACJD at the ICPSR contains a wealth of data relevant for scholars interested in crime/criminology. The data cover topics such as offical crime statistics (at the national and state levels), surveys on attitudes towards crime, surveys of crime victims, and the criminal justice system.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
The Sourcebook compiles data from more than 100 US criminal justice sources. Available in spreadsheet or .pdf formats.

International Data:

International Crime Victims Surveys (ICVS)
http://www.unicri.it/wwd/analysis/icvs/index.php
The ICVS surveys are "victimization" surveys performed in sweeps from 1989-2000, and both microdata and aggregated statistics and reports are available. The surveys are also accessible via the NACJD.

United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/United-Nations-Surveys-on-Crime-Trends-and-the-Operations-of-Criminal-Justice-Systems.html
The UN makes available the results of seven global surveys on crime and criminal justice since 1970 in various formats. The NACJD also distributes some of these data. Some of the data files are also accessible via this UN site.

SOCIAL/POLITICAL/ECONOMIC DATA SOURCES

American Fact Finder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
The American Fact Finder is an excellent starting point for data from the 1990 and 2000 versions of the U.S. Census.

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
http://www.bea.gov/
The BEA is an excellent source for economic data at both the national and subnational (state/local) level.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
http://www.bls.gov
The BLS contains much data on employment, wages, and prices, at both the national and sub-national levels. Be warned that the website is not always easy to navigate.

National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
http://www.bls.gov/nls/home.htm
The National Longitudinal Surveys series contain data on the labor-market experiences and "significant life events" of several different co-horts of men and women. The data, documentation, and an extraction program are available for downloading. Be aware that some of the variables in the surveys require approval from the BLS for access. The ICPSR also has some NLS surveys available here.

Political Risk Services (PRS) Group Data
http://einstein.library.emory.edu/Risk-Data.html
The Data Center's holdings include data resources from the PRS Group and other sources that measure "risk" in the form of political (in)stability and institutional quality (e.g. levels of corruption) that can affect the functioning of markets and profitability of investments within countries.

Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/emory?id=emory&db=SSEDL
The Social Science Electronic Data Library is an archive of over 300 datasets covering a variety of topic areas, including Adolescent Pregnancy, Aging, AIDS/STD's, the American Family, Disability in the US, and Maternal Drug Abuse. The archive is well-indexed and allows variable-level searches. This resource is also available via Databases at Emory. Many of the older studies are also available on CD-ROM's in the Data Center.

State of the Cities Data System (SOCDS)
http://socds.huduser.org/index.html
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has produced SOCDS to provide quick access to tabular data for social, demographic, and economic variables at different geographic levels. HUD has also compiled and organized a collection of datasets produced by or in association with its Office of Policy Development and Research.

State Politics and Policy Quarterly Data Sources
http://www.ku.edu/pri/SPPQ/research.shtml
This site has time-series data for the American states on basic economic, political, and social information. Depending on the variable, the data coverage is from 1975 to 2001. The data are also available at a mirror site here.

World Development Indicators (World Bank)
http://devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline/
The World Development Indicators Website provides convenient access to almost 600 indicators on over 200 countries. The subjects covered include economic, social, and environmental data. Data are generally available from 1960 forward. This resource is also available via Databases at Emory. There is also a CD version of the WDI available in the Data Center.

CD-ROM/NON-WEB DATABASES

Neighborhood Change Data Base
The Neighborhood Change Data Base contains data from the 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 censuses and allows users to convert data from pre-2000 censuses into 2000 census tracts to show demographic and economic changes over time in given areas.

A complete list of the Data Center's non-web databases is available here. The databases are accessible via the Data Center's public workstations.

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