1 Homicides Connected to Other Homicides An Examination of the Chicago Homicide Dataset, 1965-20001

The Chicago Homicide Dataset (CHD), one of the largest and most detailed datasets on violence ever collected in the United States, contains information on every homicide in police records from 1965 to 2000 — over 200 variables and over 27,000 homicides. Unburdened by many of the limitations inherent in national statistics (the Supplementary Homicide Reports of the UCR), the CHD is organized so that questions about victims, offenders, or incidents (and inter-relationships among them) can be an-swered. With the CHD, it is possible to conduct analyses of homicide in Chicago for specific racial / ethnic, age, and gender groups, within specific community areas or geographic patterns, across 36 years, and also to analyze homicides connected to other homicides. The Chicago Homicide Dataset has been compiled over many years by Caroly