AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Supplemental Mental Health Treatment for Batterer Program Participants in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2004-2007

The study was conducted to investigate the extent of mental health screening, referral compliance, and treatment effectiveness of men enrolled in batterer counseling programs. Specifically, the study looked at treatment compliance and effectiveness among men referred for mental health treatment in a program for men in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who were court ordered to receive batterer counseling, from 2004 to 2006. The final sample includes a total of 992 men, 478 men who were referred to treatment and 514 men who were not. The study included a service-delivery evaluation of the screening and referral and an outcome evaluation of the supplemental mental health counseling. The outcome evaluation was based on a quasi-experimental design comparing a subsample of men under a mandatory referral to those under a voluntary referral, and also men who actually obtained mental health treatment to those who were referred but untreated. Data were collected using questionnaires administered to both the men and their female partners over a 12 month period following intake into the counseling program, as well as clinical and arrest records to assess the extent to which the men complied with the referrals, their responses to the referral, and the outcomes from participation in the program, measured in terms of re-assault of their female partners.

Tags: abuse, alcohol-abuse, assault, battered-women, counseling, counseling-services, domestic-assault, domestic-violence, drug-use, mental-health, mental-health-services, outcome-evaluation, treatment-compliance, treatment-outcome, treatment-programs, violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Processes of Resistance in Domestic Violence Offenders in Seven Sites in the United States and Canada, 2004-2005

The purpose of the study was to examine the processes of resistance in domestic violence offenders. Study One (Part 1, Study One Quantitative Data) was developed to refine and offer preliminary validation of the draft processes of resistance measure. In the summer of 2004, group facilitators collected data from 346 domestic violence offenders recruited from domestic violence agencies in Florida, California, Georgia, and Rhode Island. The 88 item draft processes of resistance measure was administered as part of a 280 item paper-and-pencil survey that took approximately 60 minutes to complete. Resistance items were placed in random order in the measure and in 50 percent of the surveys, resistance items were placed in reverse order within the measure. Study Two (Part 2, Study Two Quantitative Data), administered the processes of resistance measure to a separate sample of domestic violence offenders at batterer program intake and again two months later. Participants included 358 domestic violence offenders recruited from domestic violence agencies in Florida, Virginia, Rhode Island, Michigan, and Calgary, Canada, between January and December 2005.
In Study Three (Part 3, Study Three Expert Interview Qualitative Data), 16 of the 18 domestic violence experts who were interviewed in Study One during the drafting of the resistance measure were invited by telephone or email to participate in a 1-
hour interview on best practices for dealing with resistance. Thirteen experts who agreed to be interviewed were mailed a list of processes of resistance measure items and asked to give recommendations on how domestic violence counselors can respond to a client engaging in those behaviors in treatment. Interviews were conducted by telephone in November 2005, with an interviewer and note taker, and audiotaped. Part 1 (Study One Quantitative Data) and Part 2 (Study Two Quantitative Data) include demographic variables such as age, race, level of education, employment and income level, relationship to the domestic assault victim, months in batterer treatment, and criminal history. Both Parts also include variables to measure stage of change, decisional balance, processes of change, self-efficacy, physical and psychological aggression, social desirability, at risk drinking, and physical and mental health. Additionally, Part 2 includes variables on program attendance and completion. Part 3 (Study Three Expert Interviews Qualitative Data) includes domestic violence experts recommendations for managing eight types of resistance in batterer treatment including system blaming, problems with partner, problems with alliance, social justification, hopelessness, isolation, psychological reactance, and passive reactance.

Tags: domestic-assault, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse, intimate-partner-violence, offender-profiles, treatment-compliance, treatment-outcome, treatment-programs, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of the Bully-Proofing Your School Program in Colorado, 2001-2006

Bully-Proofing Your School (BPYS) was a school-based intervention program
designed to reduce bullying and school violence. The BPYS program differed from other anti-bullying programs by providing teachers with a specific curriculum
that could be implemented in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to
evaluate the BPYS program at the elementary school and middle school level.
The BPYS outcome evaluation consisted of school climate surveys administered to elementary school students (Part 1), middle school students (Part 2), and staff (Part 3) in both treatment and comparison schools. The design of the data collection for the study was a repeated cross-sectional design.  The evaluation of BPYS took place over five years.  In the spring semesters of 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, all participating schools completed a school climate survey. The researchers collected 4,136 completed elementary school surveys (Part 1), 1,627 completed middle school surveys (Part 2), and 1,209 completed staff surveys (Part 3). For the elementary and middle school students, the mode of data collection was an in-class (group administration) anonymous self-completed survey. For the 1,209 staff surveys (Part 3), the mode of data collection was a mail questionnaire. Part 1 variables include sociodemographic and general school information items, school climate variables, school safety variables, and home and family environment variables. Also included is a filter variable which can be used to select the 3,497 cases that were used in the original analyses. Part 2 variables include sociodemographic and general school information variables, school climate variables, school safety variables, substance use variables, home and family environment variables, variables about guns, variables on activities the respondent participated in, and school attendance variables. Part 3 variables include school and staff characteristics variables, questions about general conditions in the school, questions on how the respondent felt about other people working at the school, questions concerning the resources and participation in the school and the community, and questions regarding staff perceptions of safety at the school.

Tags: bullying, classroom-environment, crime-in-schools, educational-environment, elementary-school-students, elementary-schools, juvenile-offenders, middle-schools, school-violence, schools, student-attitudes, student-behavior, student-misconduct
Organization: Department of Justice
Multistate Analysis of Time Consumption in Capital Appeals, 1992-2002

Despite public controversy over the length of death penalty
 appeals, little empirical work has been done on the time allocated to
 the capital appeals process. The purpose of this study was to perform
 a multistate empirical analysis of the time expended in direct appeals
 of capital cases. The researchers included decisions from 14 states
 that they believed to be representative of the 37 states that have
 enforceable death penalty laws. For each of the 14 states included in
 the study, the researchers examined every capital case decided on
 direct appeal by the courts of last resort between the dates January
 1, 1992, and December 31, 2002. The researchers developed a case
 database by examining a variety of sources. For each of the 1,676
 cases in the multistate database, the research team collected time
 consumption data for each of the following five phases of the direct
 appeal process: (1) the postsentence stage, (2) the preparation stage,
 (3) the argument stage, (4) the decision stage, and (5) the supreme
 court stage. Variables include state, case characteristics, court
opinion variables, dates, and time consumption variables.

Tags: appeal-procedures, appellate-courts, capital-punishment, case-processing, certiorari, death-row-inmates, disposition-legal, executions, judicial-decisions, murderers, sentence-review, sentencing, sta, supreme-court-decisions, united-states-supreme-court
Organization: Department of Justice
Temporal Variation in Rates of Police Notification by Victims of Rape, 1973-2000 [United States]

The purpose of this study was to use data from the National Crime Survey (NCS) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to explore whether the likelihood of police notification by rape victims had increased between 1973-2000. To avoid the ambiguities that could arise in analyses across the two survey periods, the researchers analyzed the NCS (1973-1991) and NCVS data (1992-2000) separately. They focused on incidents that involved a female victim and one or more male offenders. The sample for 1973-1991 included 1,609 rapes and the corresponding sample for 1992-2000 contained 636 rapes. In their analyses, the researchers controlled for changes in forms of interviewing used in the NCS and NCVS. Logistic regression was used to estimate effects on the measures of police notification. The analyses incorporated the currently best available methods of accounting for design effects in the NCS and NCVS.  Police notification served as the dependent variable in the study and was measured in two ways. First, the analysis included a polytomous dependent variable that contrasted victim reported incidents and third-party reported incidents, respectively, with nonreported incidents. Second, a binary dependent variable, police notified, also was included.  The primary independent variables in the analysis were the year of occurrence of the incident reported by the victim and the relationship between the victim and the offender. The regression models estimated included several control variables, including measures of respondents' socioeconomic status, as well as other victim, offender, and incident characteristics that may be related both to the nature of rape and to the likelihood that victims notify the police.

Tags: assault, citizen-crime-reporting, crime-reporting, domestic-violence, police-citizen-interactions, rape, reactions-to-crime, victims, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Information Security in Academic Institutions on Public Safety and Security in the United States, 2005-2006

Despite the critical information security issues faced by academic institutions, little research has been conducted at the policy, practice, or theoretical levels to address these issues, and few policies or cost-effective controls have been developed. The purpose of this research study was three-fold: (1) to create an empirically-based profile of issues and approaches, (2) to develop a practical road map for policy and practice, and (3) to advance the knowledge, policy, and practice of academic institutions, law enforcement, government, and researchers. The study design incorporated three methods of data collection: a quantitative field survey, qualitative one-on-one interviews, and an empirical assessment of the institutions' network activity. Survey data collection involved simple random sampling of 600 academic institutions from the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) database, recruitment via postcard, telephone, and email, Web-based survey administration, and three follow-ups. Results are contained in Part 1, Quantitative Field Survey Data. Interview data collection involved selecting a sample size of 15 institutions through a combination of simple random and convenience sampling, recruitment via telephone and email, and face-to-face or telephone interviews. Results are contained in Part 2, Qualitative One-on-One Interview Data. Network analysis data collection involved convenience sampling of two academic institutions, recruitment via telephone and email, installing Higher Education Network Analysis (HENA) on participants' systems, and six months of data collection. Results are in Part 3, Subject 1 Network Analysis Data, and Part 4, Subject 2 Network Analysis Data. The Quantitative Field Survey Data (Part 1) contains 19 variables on characteristics of institutions that participated in the survey component of this study, as well as 263 variables derived from responses to the Information Security in Academic Institutions Survey, which was organized into five sections: Environment, Policy, Information Security Controls, Information Security Challenges, and Resources. The Qualitative One-on-One Interview Data (Part 2) contains qualitative responses to a combination of closed-response and open-response formats. The data are divided into the following seven sections: Environment, Institution's Potential Vulnerability, Institution's Potential Threat, Information Value and Sharing, End Users, Countermeasures, and Insights. Data collected through the empirical analysis of network activity (Part 3 and Part 4) include type and protocol of attack, source and destination information, and geographic location.

Tags: colleges, computer-related-crimes, higher-education, information, information-policy, information-systems, information-technology, internet, national-security, public-safety, security, terrorism, terrorist-threat, threats, universities
Organization: Department of Justice
Exploring the Drugs-Crime Connection Within the Electronic Dance Music and Hip Hop Nightclub Scenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005-2006

To explore the relationship between alcohol, drugs, and crime in the electronic dance music and hip hop nightclub scenes of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, researchers utilized a multi-faceted ethnographic approach featuring in-depth interviews with 51 respondents (Dataset 1, Initial Interview Qualitative Data) and two Web-based follow-up surveys with respondents (Dataset 2, Follow-Up Surveys Quantitative Data). Recruitment of respondents began in April of 2005 and was conducted in two ways. Slightly more than half of the respondents (n = 30) were recruited with the help of staff from two small, independent record stores. The remaining 21 respondents were recruited at electronic dance music or hip hop nightclub events. Dataset 1 includes structured and open-ended questions about the respondent's background, living situation and lifestyle, involvement and commitment to the electronic dance music and hip hop scenes, nightclub culture and interaction therein, and experiences with drugs, criminal activity, and victimization. Dataset 2 includes descriptive information on how many club events were attended, which ones, and the activities (including drug use and crime/victimization experiences) taking place therein. Dataset 3 (Demographic Quantitative Data) includes coded demographic information from the Dataset 1 interviews.

Tags: alcohol-abuse, assault, drug-abuse, drug-traffic, drug-use, harassment, property-crimes, sexual-assault, sexual-harassment, substance-abuse, vandalism
Organization: Department of Justice
Individual Responses to Affirmative Action Issues in Criminal Justice Agencies, 1981:  [United States]

These data, which are part of a larger study undertaken by
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, evaluate the responses of
criminal justice employees to affirmative action within criminal
justice agencies. Information is provided on employees' (1) general
mood, (2) attitudes across various attributes, such as race, sex, rank,
education and length of service, and (3) demographic characteristics
including age, sex, race, educational level, parents' occupations, and
living arrangements. The use of criminal justice employees as the units
of analysis provides attitudinal and perceptual data in assessing
affirmative action programs within each agency. Variables include
reasons for becoming a criminal justice employee, attitudes toward
affirmative action status in general, and attitudes about affirmative
action in criminal justice settings.

Tags: affirmative-action, attitudes, criminal-justice-system, law-enforcement-agencies, workers
Organization: Department of Justice
Robbery of Financial Institutions in Indiana, 1982-1984

The goals of this data collection were to provide
information on robbery-related security measures employed by financial
institutions, to identify factors that contribute to robbery, and to
study the correlates of case disposition and sentence length of
convicted robbers. The collection compares banking institutions that
have been robbed with those bank offices that have not been robbed to
provide information on factors that contribute to these robberies. The
office-based file includes variables designed to measure general office
characteristics, staff preparation and training, security measures,
characteristics of the area in which the banking institution is
located, and the robbery history of each institution. The
incident-based file includes variables such as the robber's method of
operation and behavior, the employee's reaction, the characteristics of
the office at the time of the robbery, and the apprehension of the
offender. Also included is information on the status of the
investigation, reasons involved in solving the robbery, status of
prosecution, ultimate prosecution, and sentence in length.

Tags: banks, disposition-legal, financial-institutions, offenders, reactions-to-crime, robbery, security, sentencing
Organization: Department of Justice
Validation of the RAND Selective Incapacitation Survey and the Iowa Risk Assessment Scale in Colorado, 1982 and 1986

This data collection was designed to replicate the Rand 
 Selective Incapacitation Survey and the Iowa Risk Assessment Scale 
 using a group of Colorado offenders. The Iowa model provides two 
 assessments of offender risk: (1) a measure of general risk to society 
 and (2) a measure of the risk of new violence. The Iowa dataset 
 includes crime information from defendants' self-reports and from 
 official crime records. Both files contain important self-report items 
 such as perceived probability of being caught, weapon used in the 
 offense committed, months free on the street during the reference 
 period, and detailed activity description during the free period. Other 
 items covered include employment history, plans, reasons for committing 
the crime, and attitudes toward life, law, prisons, and police.

Tags: criminal-histories, criminality-prediction, offenders, recidivism-prediction, risk-assessment, selective-incapacitation
Organization: Department of Justice
Intensive Supervision Program in New Jersey, 1983-1986

These data evaluate the New Jersey Intensive Supervision 
 Program (ISP), a program implemented by the New Jersey Department of 
 Corrections in 1983-1986. The central premise of ISP is that certain 
 felony offenders sentenced to prison can be resentenced to a program of 
 intensive supervision in which they are successfully supervised in the 
 community. The data collection evaluates the impact of ISP on 
 recidivism rates, prison space availability, and cost effectiveness and 
 also assesses the opinions of criminal justice professionals toward the 
 program. In the first file data collected on four types of sentenced 
 felons include education, psychological condition, financial status, 
 substance abuse, prior and follow-up criminal records, earning and 
 payment records, sentence and correctional histories, and case 
 characteristics including sentences, offenses, and other dispositions. 
 The second file presents data on type of criminal justice professional 
 interviewed, opinion scale scores on aspects of ISP, and suggestions 
for ISP.

Tags: alternatives-to-institutionalization, community-service-programs, correctional-facilities, felons, offender-profiles, program-evaluation, recidivism-rates, sentencing
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of Police-Media Relations, 2000

This study was undertaken to examine the influence police
 officers have in creating an image of law enforcement through media
 relations and public information offices/officers (PIO). A survey was
 mailed nationwide to police departments serving areas with populations
 exceeding 100,000 residents. The survey items identified the following
 factors: (1) the presence and nature of a formal departmental media
 strategy, (2) the prevalence of full-time police PIO, (3) PIO
 background characteristics, including educational/vocational training
 in media, journalism, or public relations, (4) specific goals of
 police media relations offices and PIOs, (5) the various methods by
 which these goals are achieved, and (6) the perceived quality of
 police-media interaction, the police image, and the public information
 office both before and after the adoption of the current media
strategy.

Tags: media-influence, media-use, police-departments, police-officers, public-opinion, public-relations
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of Adult Community Supervision Strategies in Multnomah County, Oregon, 1995, 1998, and 2000 Cohorts

This study was undertaken to determine whether a new form
 of community supervision in Multnomah County, Oregon, had been
 properly implemented and to determine its impact on public safety, as
 well as to assess recidivism rates in light of the revised
 supervision. A quasi-experimental design was employed using non-
 randomized comparison groups consisting of offenders admitted to
 community supervision in Multnomah County, Oregon, in 1995, 1998, and
 2000. Administrative records data were collected from the Oregon
 Department of Corrections, Multnomah County Department of Community
 Justice, Portland Police Departments, Multnomah County Sheriff, the
District Attorney's office, and court records.

Tags: adult-offenders, alternatives-to-institutionalization, criminal-justice-programs, public-safety, recidivism, recidivism-rates, supervised-liberty
Organization: Department of Justice
Policing by Injunction:  Problem-Oriented Dimensions of Civil Gang Abatement in the State of California, 1987-2001

This study examined whether civil gang abatement is
consistent with the model of problem-oriented intervention. Civil gang
abatement is a legal strategy that employs the civil remedy of the
preventive injunction to address persistent public nuisances caused by
gangs in specific neighborhoods. This study focused on injunction
initiatives, which are efforts by prosecutors to acquire a preliminary
injunction against a gang, regardless of the decision by the
court. The researcher examined all identified gang injunction cases
filed with the Superior Court of California from October 1987 through
June 2001. Data on gang activities that led to efforts to obtain
injunctions were gathered from court records, and additional data were
gathered through surveys of the prosecutors involved in each
injunction initiative. Questions in the survey covered the nature of
the gang problem, the entity responsible for initiating the effort to
get an injunction, specific events that triggered the initiative and
influenced it after initiation, the existence of other interventions
or programs conducted in conjunction with the initiative, the
prosecutors' perceptions of the nature and impact of community
involvement, and information on community entities that supported and
opposed the initiatives.

Tags: gang-violence, gangs, injunctions, intervention-strategies, neighborhoods, program-evaluation
Organization: Department of Justice