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National Incident-based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Individual-level crime data covering much of the US
Found on: Jones, T. R., Datasets for Social Science, github.com/toddrjones/datasets (CC0 1.0), list version b8ef25a of 13 October 2026, read 14 October 2026
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National Incident-based Reporting System (NIBRS) – Individual-level crime data covering much of the US
- Years: 1991-present. This version was standardized and compiled by Jacob Kaplan.
- Includes information like offender age, sex, and race; victim age, sex, and race; type of offense; time of offense; location of offense; and relationship between victim and offender.
- The geography is police agency, so the individual crimes are not geocoded.
- Useful crosswalk to get more information about the police agencies
- Sample paper: School and Crime
Quoted from the section “Crime” of Datasets for Social Science by Todd R. Jones, which is shared under CC0 1.0. e2er added the field, the access level and the years.
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Years: 1991-present, as the list states them.
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- School and Crime toddrjones.com (the list's sample paper)
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- dataset:found/national-incident-based-reporting-system-nibrs · JSON
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