VGAM (version 0.8-7)

crime.us: Estimated Crime in 2009 in USA

Description

Crime totals and rates, cross-classified by US state, during 2009.

Usage

data(crime.us)

source

http://www.ucrdatatool.gov, http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/State/RunCrimeOneYearofData.cfm

Details

Each row is a state of the United States of America. The first half of the columns tend to be totals, and the second half are crime rates per 100,000 population.

The data frame was downloaded as a .csv file and edited. The full column names are: State, Population, Violent crime total, Murder and nonnegligent Manslaughter, Forcible rape, Robbery, Aggravated assault, Property crime total, Burglary, Larceny-theft, Motor vehicle theft, Violent Crime rate, Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate, Forcible rape rate, Robbery rate, Aggravated assault rate, Property crime rate, Burglary rate, Larceny-theft rate, Motor vehicle theft rate, state Number, abbreviation. Technical details governing the data set are given in the URL.

Examples

# Louisiana is the one outlier
plot(MurderRate ~ stateNumber, crime.us,
     axes = FALSE, type = "h", col = 1:6,
     main = "USA murder rates in 2009 (per 100,000 population)")
axis(1, with(crime.us, abbrev), at = with(crime.us, stateNumber),
     col = 1:6, col.tick = 1:6, cex.lab = 0.5)
axis(2)
tail(crime.us[ sort.list(with(crime.us, MurderRate)), ])