Collected by: J. Mitchell Pickerill 
Date of origination: 7/20/95
Last modification: 07/20/95  by JMP
		9/21/95 by PSM
		3/14/96 by PSM remove US Total from observations
 
Description:  This dataset includes 1993 data for state and local justice 
   system per capita expenditures and violent crime rates (per 100,000 
   population) for the U.S. total and for each of the 50 states and D.C.

Source: Maquire, Kathleen, and Ann L. Pastore, Eds.  Bureau of Justice 
   Statistics Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - 1993. Washington, 
   D.C.:  The Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center (1994), pp 5, 365.
 
Number of observations: 52 

 
Vairables: There are 16 variables in the data file. 

  1. state = Alphabetic listing of states and D.C., beginning with U.S. Total
  2. code_st = Numeric state code: 
     1. U.S. Total 
     2. Alabama 
     3. Alaska
     4. Arizona 
     5. Arkansas 
     6. California
     7. Colorado 
     8. Connecticut 
     9. Delaware
    10. District of Columbia  (D.C.) 
    11. Florida
    12. Georgia 
    13. Hawaii
    14. Idaho
    15. Illinois
    16. Indiana
    17. Iowa
    18. Kansas 
    19. Kentucky 
    20. Louisiana 
    21. Maine
    22. Maryland
    23. Massachusetts
    24. Michigan
    25. Minnesota
    26. Mississippi
    27. Missouri
    28. Montana
    29. Nebraska
    30. Nevada
    31. New Hampshire
    32. New Jersey
    33. New Mexico
    34. New York
    35. North Carolina
    36. North Dakota
    37. Ohio
    38. Oklahoma
    39. Oregon 
    40. Pennsyvania
    41. Rhode Island
    42. South Carolina
    43. South Dakota
    44. Tennessee
    45. Texas
    46. Utah
    47. Vermont
    48. Virginia
    49. Washington
    50. West Virginia
    51. Wisconsin
    52. Wyoming

  3. pop =Population on April 1, 1990 (in thousands)
  4. expd_tot =Per capita expenditures total justice system (1993)
  5. expd_pol =Per capita expenditures police protection (1993)
  6. expd_cts =Per capita expenditures courts only (1993)
  7. expd_leg =Per capita expenditures prosecutuion and legal services (1993)
  8. expd_def =Per capita expenditures public defense (1993)
  9. expd_cor =Per capita expenditures corrections (1993)
 10. expd_jus =Per capita expenditures other justice activitles (1993)
 11. rank =rank order of state according to violent crime rate (coding U.S. 
     total violent crime rate 0) (1993)
 12. crimrate =Total violent crime rate (per 100,000 population) including 
     homicide, robbery, aggravated assault and rape (1993)
 13. homicide =Homicide rate (per 100,000 population) (1993)
 14. robbery =Robbery rate (per 100,000 population) (1993)
 15. assault =Aggravated assault rate (per 100,000 population) (1993)
 16. Rape =Rape (per 100,000 population) (1993)
 
 
 
First three observations: 

"U.S.Total"  1  248710  261.02  111.71  31.18  16.01  5.37  94.50  2.24  0  757.5  9.3  263.6  441.8  42.8
"Alabama"  2  4041  159.12  76.78  21.85  8.70  2.05  48.73  1.01  10  871.7  11  164.9  654.6  41.2
"Alaska"  3  550  607.54  230.35  57.40  135.33  11.23  173.23  0  20  660.5  7.5  109  445.3  98.6
 
Last three observations: 

"WestVirginia"  50  1793  97.30  45.60  19.01  5.80  3.59  23.05  .25  45  211.5  6.3  43.5  140  21.7
"Wisconsin"  51  4892  208.73  100.98  22.64  14.34  7.15  63.10  .52  43  275.7  4.4  119.8  125.3  26.3
"Wyoming"  52  454  246.66  124.79  30.18  19.48  4.15  67.89  .19  39  319.5  3.6  18  262.9  35