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Crime in West Virginia, 1982

NCJ Number
91361
Date Published
1983
Length
230 pages
Annotation
In addition to providing statewide offense, arrest, juvenile disposition, and law enforcement employee data, this 1982 report presents offense and arrest data by county and municipality.
Abstract
Offense data is presented by Index offenses while arrest data is categorized according to violent crime, property crime, drug arrests, and gambling arrests. In addition to presenting the number of law enforcement employees in various types of agencies statewide, information is also provided on officers killed and assaulted in 1982. A separate section is devoted to arrest data for the Department of Natural Resources; special attention is also given to information on arson and domestic violence.