Ever picked up or charged by police

arrest

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question A. Were you ever picked up, or charged, by the police, for any (other) reason whether or not you were guilty?

Values

• [1] yes

• [2] no

• [3] refused

• [NA(d)] don't know [NA(i)] iap [NA(j)] I don't have a job [NA(m)] dk, na, iap [NA(n)] no answer [NA(p)] not imputable [NA(r)] refused [NA(s)] skipped on web [NA(u)] uncodeable [NA(x)] not available in this release [NA(y)] not available in this year [NA(z)] see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	2012
Full	1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1984

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for arrest.

Counts by year:

year	iap	yes	no	refused	no answer	don't know	Total
1973	-	156	1288	1	59	-	1504
1974	-	148	1328	-	8	-	1484
1976	-	128	1337	-	33	1	1499
1977	-	156	1341	-	33	-	1530
1980	-	178	1244	1	42	3	1468
1982	-	233	1603	1	22	1	1860
1984	-	186	1265	-	21	1	1473
2012	220	373	1375	-	5	1	1974
Total	220	1558	10781	3	223	7	12792

See also

Other Core: convictd, hunt, hunt1, huntothr, lockedup, news(), rowngun, ticket, tvhours

Other Arrest (R's): ticket

Other Police: lockedup, ticket