SPSS – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:56:29 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities, 1968 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100011/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:31:48 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=639 To summarize: This study explores attitudes and perceptions related to urban problems and race relations in 15 northern cities of the United States (Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, Milwaukee, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, DC). More specifically, it seeks to define the social and psychological…

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]]> Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100009/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:01:26 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=593 This data collates monthly counts of arrests of juveniles for violent crime as reported by by police jurisdictions. Data are presented in counts broken down by type of crime; jurisdictions are grouped into regions. The original study was longitudinal and designed to assess the effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law (1978) on incidences of violent crime by juveniles.

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]]> Price Quotations in Early United States Securities Markets, 1790-1860 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100008/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:51:17 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=591 The data consists of compiled public securities as listed in newspapers from the period 1786 to 1862; the full set of files cover a number of U.S. cities plus London, and among the areas covered is New York. The data is encoded as prices over a span of time (at the level of detail of year, month, and day) described here as a run. Issuers of the securities are named, and are grouped by commercial…

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