Library Guides: SOCI 2701 Homicide in Colorado: Additional Resources

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Statista
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ProQuest Statistical Insight
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Datasets on employment, earnings, consumer and producer price indexes from U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Go to Data Tools for list of datasets. See Public Data API for tools to retrieve.
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Metro Denver Homeless Initiative
Annual point in time reports for the Denver metro region and county specific data tables.
Monthly Denver Homeless Shelter Usage

The Nation’s Two Measures of Homicide. US Department of Justice, 2014..
Summarizes the United States' two national data collection systems related to homicide: the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide Reports and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Fatal Injury Reports..
Kaplan J (2021). Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program Data: A Practitioner’s Guide.
See Chapter 6: Supplementary Homicide Reports (https://ucrbook.com/shr.html).

APA Academic Writer
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Roper Center Public Opinion Archives
A comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. All of the major polling organizations in the US are included in this system. The RoperExpress section allows users to search for and download data sets housed at the Roper Center.