AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
School Health Center Healthy Adolescent Relationship Program (SHARP) Integrating Prevention and Intervention in Northern California School Health Centers, 2012-2013


These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.


The School Health Center Healthy Adolescent Relationship Program (SHARP) was a school health center (SHC) provider-delivered multi-level intervention to reduce adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) among adolescents ages 14-19 seeking care in SHCs. This study tested the effectiveness of a brief relationship abuse education and counseling intervention in SHCs.


The SHARP intervention consisted of three levels of integrated intervention:

A brief clinical intervention on healthy and unhealthy relationships for SHC (cisgender and transgender) male and female patients delivered by SHC providers during all clinic visits (evaluated via client pre- and post-surveys and chart review)
Development of an ARA-informed SHC staff and clinic environment (evaluated via provider pre and post-training surveys and interviews)
SHC-based youth-led outreach activities within the school to promote healthy relationships and improve student safety (evaluated by focus groups with youth leaders and measures of school climate)



The collection consists of:


3 SAS data files

sharp_abuse_data_archive.sas7bdat (n=1,011; 272 variables)
sharp_blt2exit_long_data_archive.sas7bdat (n=1,949; 259 variables)
sharp_chart_data_archive_icpsr.sas7bdat (n=936; 24 variables)

2 Stata data files

SHARP_Provider Immediate Post_0829 and 0905 training_final-ICPSR.dta (n=38; 21 variables)
SHARP_Provider Pre and Followup_final.dta-ICPSR.dta (n=66; 102 variables)



5 SAS syntax files

NIJ SHARP - Analyses.sas
NIJ SHARP - DataMgmt_Final.sas
NIJ SHARP - Formats.sas
SHARP - Chart Extraction Data-MASKED.sas
SHARP - Chart Extraction Formats.sas



3 Stata syntax files

code-for-SHARP-dating-violence-analyses-deidentified-MASKED.do
SHARP_Provider Data to Archive-MASKED.do
SHARP-analyses-deidentified-MASKED.do



3 PI provided codebooks

SHARP Codebook_Client Chart Data.xlsx (1 worksheet)
SHARP Codebook_Client Survey Data.xlsx (3 worksheets)
SHARP Codebook_Provider Survey Data.xlsx (1 worksheet)



For confidentiality reasons, qualitative data from focus groups are not currently available.  Focus groups were conducted with each student outreach team following the conclusion of data collection. Discussions focused on awareness about ARA, the school-wide campaign, using the SHC as a resource, and what else can be done to prevent ARA in schools.


Tags: adolescents, dating-social, pregnancy, self-concept, sexual-attitudes, sexual-awareness, sexual-behavior, social-networks, violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Expanded Assessment of the Consequences of Imprisonment for Employment in Maricopa County, Arizona from 2011-2012


These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.


This research completed a three-year study of the impact of a prison record on gaining employment. It included two separate experiments and an employer survey in the research. The first experiment involved the submission of more than 6,000 online applications for entry-level jobs. The second experiment sent individuals (auditors) to apply for 60 jobs in-person. The third research method was a survey conducted among 49 employers, all of whom were included in the second experiment.


The collection contains 3 SPSS data files:

file1-male_and_female_inperson_data.sav (n=518; 17 variables)
file2-employer_survey-ICPSR.sav (n=48; 79 variables)
file3-male_and_female_online_data.sav (n=6,198; 19 variables)



Tags: employment, employment-discrimination, employment-qualifications, ex-offender-employment, ex-offenders, job-search, prisoner-reentry, sex-discrimination
Organization: Department of Justice
State-Mandated Criminal Background Employment Screening: A High Stakes Window into the Desistance Process, New York, 2008-2009

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.
This study examines criminal background checks that were carried out by the New York State Department of Health (DOH) for individuals with criminal history records who have been provisionally hired to work as unlicensed direct care employees in the long term care industry. These individuals applied for jobs in this industry for the first time in 2008 and 2009.
This information was then augmented with criminal history information provided by the NY Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS).
The collection contains 1 Stata data file (Criminal_background_check.dta (n=7209; 40 variables)).

Tags: conviction-records, criminal-histories, employment, employment-potential, long-term-care, risk-assessment
Organization: Department of Justice
Survey of Prosecutors' Views on Children and Domestic Violence in the United States, 1999

This survey of prosecutors was undertaken to describe
current practice and identify "promising practices" with respect to
cases involving domestic violence and child victims or witnesses. It
sought to answer the following questions: (1) What are the challenges
facing prosecutors when children are exposed to domestic violence? (2)
How are new laws regarding domestic violence committed in the presence of
children, now operating in a small number of states, affecting
practice? (3) What can prosecutors do to help battered women and their
children? To gather data on these topics, the researchers conducted a
national telephone survey of prosecutors. Questions asked include case
assignment, jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office, caseload,
protocol for coordinating cases, asking about domestic violence when
investigating child abuse cases, asking about children when
investigating domestic violence cases, and how the respondent found
out when a child abuse case involved domestic violence or when a
domestic violence case involved children. Other variables cover
whether police routinely checked for prior Child Protective Services
(CPS) reports, if these cases were heard by the same judge, in the
same court, and were handled by the same prosecutor, if there were
laws identifying exposure to domestic violence as child abuse, if
there were laws applying or enhancing criminal penalties when children
were exposed to domestic violence, if the state legislature was
considering any such action, if prosecutors were using other avenues
to enhance penalties, if there was pertinent caselaw, and if the
respondent's office had a no-drop policy for domestic violence
cases. Additional items focus on whether the presence of children
influenced decisions to prosecute, if the office would report or
prosecute a battered woman who abused her children, or failed to
protect her children from abuse or from exposure to domestic violence,
how often the office prosecuted such women, if there was a batterers'
treatment program in the community, how often batterers were sentenced
to attend the treatment program, if there were programs to which the
respondent could refer battered mothers and children, what types of
programs were operating, and if prosecutors had received training on
domestic violence issues.

Tags: battered-women, child-abuse, children, court-cases, domestic-violence, family-violence, policies-and-procedures, prosecuting-attorneys, treatment-programs
Organization: Department of Justice
Examination of Homicides in Houston, Texas, 1985-1994

As a contribution to nationwide efforts to more thoroughly
 understand urban violence, this study was conducted to assess the
 impact of cultural dynamics on homicide rates in Houston, Texas, and
 to profile homicides in the city from 1985 to 1994. This data
 collection provides the results of quantitative analysis of data
 collected from all Houston homicide cases recorded in the police
 murder logs for 1985-1994. Variables describe the homicide
 circumstances, the victim-offender relationship, the type of weapon
 used, and any drug- or gang-related activity involved. Other variables
 include the year and month in which the homicide occurred, whether the
 homicide occurred on a weekday or over the weekend, the motive of the
 homicide, whether the homicide was drug-related, whether the case was
 cleared by police at time of data entry, weapon type and means of
 killing, the relationship between the victim and the offender, whether
 a firearm was the homicide method, whether it was a multiple victim
 incident or multiple offender incident, whether the victim or the
 offender was younger than age 15, and the inter-racial relationship
 between the victim and the offender. Demographic variables include
age, sex, and race of the victim as well as the offender.

Tags: arrest-records, crime-rates, homicide, murder, offenders, police-records, urban-crime, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of Law Enforcement Training for Domestic Violence Cases in a Southwestern City in Texas, 1997-1999

This study was an outcome evaluation of the effects of the
Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project Training Model for Law
Enforcement Response on police officer attitudes toward domestic
violence. Data on the effectiveness of the training were collected by
means of an attitude survey of law enforcement officers (Part
1). Additionally, two experimental designs (Part 2) were implemented
to test the effects of the Duluth model training on (1) time spent by
police officers at the scene of a domestic violence incident, and (2)
the number of convictions. Variables for Part 1 include the assigned
research group and respondents' level of agreement with various
statements, such as: alcohol is the primary cause of family violence,
men are more likely than women to be aggressive, only mentally ill
people batter their families, mandatory arrest of offenders is the
best way to reduce repeat episodes of violence, family violence is a
private matter, law enforcement policies are ineffective for
preventing family violence, children of single-parent, female-headed
families are abused more than children of dual-parent households, and
prosecution of an offender is unlikely regardless of how well a victim
cooperates. Index scores calculated from groupings of various
variables are included as well as whether the respondent found
training interesting, relevant, well-organized, and
useful. Demographic variables for each respondent include race,
gender, age, and assignment and position in the police department.
Variables for Part 2 include whether the domestic violence case
occurred before or after training, to which test group the case
belongs, the amount of time in minutes spent on the domestic violence
scene, and whether the case resulted in a conviction.

Tags: arrest-procedures, domestic-violence, family-violence, intervention, law-enforcement, outcome-evaluation, police-officers, police-training, policies-and-procedures, program-evaluation
Organization: Department of Justice
Economic Distress, Community Context, and Intimate Violence in the United States, 1988 and 1994

Because of their restricted access to financial resources,
 couples undergoing economic distress are more likely to live in
 disadvantaged neighborhoods than are financially well-off couples. The
 link between individual economic distress and community-level economic
 disadvantage raises the possibility that these two conditions may
 combine or interact in important ways to influence the risk of
 intimate violence against women. This study examined whether the
 effect of economic distress on intimate violence was stronger in
 disadvantaged or advantaged neighborhoods or was unaffected by
 neighborhood conditions. This project was a secondary analysis of data
 drawn from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and
 Households (NSFH) and from the 1990 United States Census. From the
 NSFH, the researchers abstracted data on conflict and violence among
 couples, as well as data on their economic resources and well-being,
 the composition of the household in which the couple lived, and a
 large number of socio-demographic characteristics of the sample
 respondents. From the 1990 Census, the researchers abstracted
 tract-level data on the characteristics of the census tracts in which
 the NSFH respondents lived. Demographic information contains each
 respondent's race, sex, age, education, income, relationship status at
 Wave 1, marital status at Wave 1, cohabitation status, and number of
 children under 18. Using variables abstracted from both Wave 1 and
 Wave 2 of the NSFH and the 1990 Census, the researchers constructed
 new variables, including degree of financial worry and satisfaction
 for males and females, number of job strains, number of debts, changes
 in debts between Wave 1 and Wave 2, changes in income between Wave 1
 and Wave 2, if there were drinking and drug problems in the household,
 if the female was injured, number of times the female was victimized,
 the seriousness of the violence, if the respondent at Wave 2 was still
at the Wave 1 address, and levels of community disadvantage.

Tags: battered-women, demographic-characteristics, domestic-violence, economic-conditions, households, neighborhood-conditions, neighborhoods, social-indicators
Organization: Department of Justice
National Review of Stalking Laws and Implementation Practices in the United States, 1998-2001

This study was designed to clarify the status of stalking
 laws and their implementation needs. To accomplish this, the principal
 investigator conducted a survey of police and prosecutor agencies
 across the country to determine how stalking laws were being
 implemented. While there had been significant federal support for
 state and local agencies to adopt anti-stalking laws and implement
 anti-stalking initiatives, no comprehensive review of the status of
 such efforts had been done. Thus, there had been no way of knowing
 what additional measures might be needed to enhance local
 anti-stalking efforts. Two national surveys on stalking were
 conducted. The first survey of 204 law enforcement agencies (Part 1,
 Initial Law Enforcement Survey Data) and 222 prosecution offices (Part
 3, Initial Prosecutor Survey Data) in jurisdictions with populations
 over 250,000 was conducted by mail in November of 1998. The survey
 briefly asked what special efforts the agencies had undertaken against
 stalking, including special units, training, or written policies and
 procedures. A replication of the first national survey was conducted
 in November of 2000. Part 2, Follow-Up Law Enforcement Survey Data,
 contains the follow-up data for law enforcement agencies and Part 4,
 Follow-Up Prosecutor Survey Data, contains the second survey data for
 prosecutors. Parts 1 to 4 include variables about the unit that
 handled stalking cases, types of stalking training provided, written
 policies on stalking cases, and whether statistics were collected on
 stalking and harassment. Parts 2 and 4 also include variables about
 the type of funding received by agencies. Part 4 also contains
 variables about other charges that might be filed in stalking cases,
 such as harassment, threats, criminal trespass, and protection order
violation.

Tags: anti-stalking-laws, law-enforcement-agencies, personal-security, police-training, program-evaluation, stalking
Organization: Department of Justice
Informal Social Control of Crime in High Drug Use Neighborhoods in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, 2000

This neighborhood-level study sought to explore the effect
 of cultural disorganization, in terms of both weakened conventional
 culture and value heterogeneity, on informal social control, and the
 extent to which these effects may be conditioned by the level of drug
 use in the neighborhood. Data for Part 1 were collected from
 face-to-face and telephone interviews with households in the targeted
 sample. Part 2 is comprised of data collected from the United States
 Census 1990 Summary Tape File 3A (STF3A) as well as the United
 States Census 2000 Population counts, Lexington and Louisville police
 crime incident reports, and police data on drug arrests. The responses
 gleaned from the survey used in Part 1 were aggregated to the census
block group level, which are included in Part 2.

Tags: communities, crime-rates, drug-use, informal-social-control, neighborhoods, social-control, social-environment, social-structure, social-values, urban-areas, urban-problems
Organization: Department of Justice
Effect of Prison Based Alcohol Treatment: Treatment and Recidivism Data from Montana, Ohio, and Texas, 2006-2012


This study evaluated program design, quality of treatment delivery, and program effectiveness of three separate state sponsored alcohol specific treatment programs in prisons located in Montana, Ohio, and Texas from 2006 to 2012.


Tags: alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcoholism, evaluation, prison-inmates, program-evaluation, rehabilitation-programs, state-correctional-facilities, substance-abuse, substance-abuse-treatment, treatment, treatment-facilities, treatment-outcome, treatment-programs
Organization: Department of Justice
Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assault in Boston, Massachusetts, 1992-1997

This study sought to inform various issues related to the
 extent of victims' adverse psychological and behavioral reactions to
 aggravated assault differentiated by the offenders' bias or non-bias
 motives. The goals of the research included (1) identifying the
 individual and situational factors related to bias- and
 non-bias-motivated aggravated assault, (2) determining the comparative
 severity and duration of psychological after-effects attributed to the
 victimization experience, and (3) measuring the comparative extent of
 behavioral avoidance strategies of victims. Data were collected on all
 560 cases from the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit
 from 1992 to 1997 that involved victim of a bias-motivated aggravated
 assault. In addition, data were collected on a 10-percent stratified
 random sample of victims of non-bias assaults within the city of
 Boston from 1993 to 1997, resulting in another 544 cases. For each of
 the cases, information was collected from each police incident
 report. Additionally, the researchers attempted to contact each victim
 in the sample to participate in a survey about their victimization
 experiences. The victim questionnaires included questions in five
 general categories: (1) incident information, (2) police response, (3)
 prosecutor response, (4) personal impact of the crime, and (5)
 respondent's personal characteristics. Criminal history variables were
 also collected regarding the number and type of adult and juvenile
 arrest charges against offenders and victims, as well as dispositions
and arraignment dates.

Tags: n-a
Organization: Department of Justice
Screening of Youth at Risk for Delinquency in Oregon, 1980-1985

This is a longitudinal study of three birth cohorts of
 youngsters who were considered at risk because of anti-social behavior
 or because of officially recorded delinquency at early ages. The study
 followed a sample of 245 boys in the fourth, seventh, and tenth grades
 in 1980 (Part 1) and again in 1985 (Part 2). Two screening devices, or
 "gatings," were used to predict future delinquency. The first
 procedure, triple gating, was based on teachers' ratings of school
 competence, mothers' reports of anti-social behavior in the home, and
 parental monitoring. The second procedure, double gating, used only
 the teachers' ratings and mothers' reports. Data were collected on the
 boys' family, school, and criminal backgrounds. Variables include
 measures of independence and achievement, family criminality, home
 conduct problems, school disruptiveness, school competence, parental
 authoritarianism, parental conflict, self-reported delinquency, peer
delinquency, and drug and alcohol use.

Tags: academic-achievement, behavior-problems, delinquent-behavior, family-background, youths-at-risk
Organization: Department of Justice
Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984

This data collection was designed to assess the effects of 
 the New York Juvenile Offender Law on the rate of violent crime 
 committed by juveniles. The data were collected to estimate the 
 deterrent effects of the law and to permit the use of an interrupted 
 time-series model to gauge the effects of intervention. The deterrent 
 effects of the law are assessed on five types of violent offenses over 
 a post-intervention period of 75 months using two comparison time 
 series to control for temporal and geographical characteristics. One 
 time series pertains to the monthly juvenile arrests of 16- to 
 19-year-olds in New York City, and the other covers monthly arrests of 
 juveniles aged 13 to 15 years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 
 control jurisdiction. Included in the collection are variables 
 concerning the monthly rates of violent juvenile arrests for homicide, 
 rape, assault, arson, and robbery for the two juvenile cohorts. These 
 time series data were compiled from records of individual police 
 jurisdictions that reported monthly arrests to the Uniform Crime 
Reporting Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Tags: arson, assault, crime-rates, deterrence, homicide, intervention, juvenile-crime, juvenile-offenders, rape, robbery, violent-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
VG2 LECP 12.8 MINUTE NEPTUNE
                                      FAR ENCOUNTER STEP DATA

This far encounter step data set consists of the counting rate and flux data for electrons and ions from the Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) experiment on Voyager 2 while the spacecraft was within the vicinity of Neptune. This instrument measures the intensities of in-situ charged particles ( >13 keV electrons and >24 keV ions) with various levels of discrimination based on energy range and mass species. A subset of almost 100 LECP channels are included in this data set. The LECP data are globally calibrated to the extent possible.  During Neptune far encounter, the entire LEPT (Low Energy Particle Telescope) and part of the LEMPA (Low Energy Magnetospheric Particle Analyzer) subsystems were turned on for data collection.  Particles include electrons, protons, alpha particles, and light, medium, and heavy nuclei particles.  The far encounter data are 12.8 minute rate and flux measurements within 1/8 of the LECP instrumental motor rotation period (the angular scanning periods, or step period).

Tags: voyager
Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration