Violent crime counts in Malaysia, 2006 to 2017

Dataset of annual counts of five types of violent crime in each state of Malaysia for each year from 2006 to 2017.

Usage

malaysia_violence_counts

Format

Data frame with 840 rows and 5 columns:

region

Region (East or West Malaysia)

state

State

year

Year

crime_type

Type of violent crime

count

Count of crimes recorded by police

This dataset is also available as a stand-alone file in .rds format at https://mpjashby.github.io/crimemappingdata/malaysia_violence_counts.rds.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution

Source

Hakim et al. (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104449