AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Impact of Violent Victimization on Physical and Mental Health Among Women in the United States, 1994-1996

The major goals of the project were to use survey data
 about victimization experiences among American women to examine: (a)
 the consequences of victimization for women's physical and mental
 health, (b) how the impact of victimization on women's health sequelae
 is conditioned by the victim's invoking of family and community
 support, and (c) how among victims of intimate partner violence, such
 factors as the relationship between the victim and offender, the
 offender's characteristics, and police involvement condition the
 impact of victimization on the victim's subsequent physical and mental
 health. This data collection consists of the SPSS syntax used to
 recode existing variables and create new variables from the study,
 VIOLENCE AND THREATS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND MEN IN THE UNITED
 STATES, 1994-1996 (ICPSR 2566). The study, also known as the National
 Violence against Women Survey (NVAWS), surveyed 8,000 women 18 years
 of age or older residing in households throughout the United States in
 1995 and 1996. The data for the NVAWS were gathered via a national,
 random-digit dialing sample of telephone households in the United
 States, stratified by United States Census region. The NVAWS
 respondents were asked about their lifetime experiences with four
 different kinds of violent victimization: sexual abuse, physical
 abuse, stalking, and intimidation. Using the data from the NVAWS, the
 researchers in this study performed three separate analyses. The study
 included outcome variables, focal variables, moderator variables, and
control variables.

Tags: assault, crime-impact, health, intimate-partner-violence, mental-health, social-support, victimization, violence, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
National Evaluation of Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP), 1996-2003 [United States]

The goal of this study was to conduct a national empirical assessment of post-release employment and recidivism effects based on legislative intent for inmates participating in Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) as compared to participants in traditional industries (TI) and those involved in other than work (OTW) activities. The research design for this study was a quasi-experimental design using matched samples. The inmates were matched using six criteria. Exact matches were made on race, gender, crime type, and category matches on age, time served, and number of disciplinary reports. A cluster sampling strategy was used for site selection. This strategy resulted in a selection of five states which were not identified in the study. The researchers then collected data on 6,464 individuals by completing record reviews of outcomes for the 3 matched samples, each of approximately 2,200 inmates released from 46 prisons across 5 PIECP states between January 1, 1996, and June 30, 2001. Variables include demographic information, time incarcerated, number of disciplinary reports, crime type, number of major disciplinary reports reviewed, group type, number of quarters from release to employment, censored variables, number of quarters from employed to job loss, time from release variables, number of possible follow-up quarters, proportion of follow-up time worked, wage variables, number of quarters worked variables, no work ever, and cluster number of case.

Tags: employment, employment-services, ex-offender-employment, inmate-programs, job-skills, job-training, prison-inmates, prisoner-reentry, recidivism, vocational-education
Organization: Department of Justice
Prevalence and Case Characteristics of Drug-Facilitated, Incapacitated, and Forcible Rape Among College Students and Other Young Women in the United States, 2006

This study had four key goals.  The first goal was to identify how many women in the United States and in college settings have ever been raped or sexually assaulted during their lifetime and within the past year.  The next goal was to identify key case characteristics of drug-facilitated and forcible rapes.  The third goal was to examine factors that affect the willingness of women to report rape to law enforcement or seek help from their support network.  The last goal was to make comparisons between the different types of rape.  Part 1 (General Population) data consisted of a national telephone household sample of 3,001 United States women, whereas Part 2 (College Population) data consisted of 2,000 college women selected from a reasonably representative national list of women attending four year colleges and universities.  Both data parts contain the same 399 variables. Interviews were completed between January 23 and June 26, 2006.  Respondents were asked questions regarding risk perception, fear of violence, and accommodation behavior.  The women were also asked their opinions and attitudes about reporting rape to the authorities and disclosing rape to family members, peers, or other individuals. This includes questions about barriers to reporting and experiences that women have had being the recipient of a disclosure from a friend, relative, or other individual.  The respondents were asked a series of questions about rape, including different types of forcible, drug- or alcohol-facilitated, and incapacitated rape.  For women who endorsed one or more rape experiences, a wide range of rape characteristics were assessed including characteristics around the nature of the event, perpetrator-victim relationship, occurrence of injury, involvement of drugs or alcohol, receipt of medical care, and whether the rape was reported to the authorities.  The respondents were also asked a series of questions regarding substance use, including prescription and illegal drugs and alcohol.  Additionally, a series of questions related to post-traumatic stress disorder and depression were asked.  Finally, the women were asked to provide basic demographic information such as age, race, ethnicity, and income.

Tags: alcohol-abuse, demographic-characteristics, depression-psychology, drug-abuse, mental-health, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, prescription-drugs, rape, sexual-assault, substance-abuse
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing the Validity of Voice Stress Analysis (VSA) Tools in a Jail Setting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2006

The purpose of the project was to assess the validity of two Voice Stress Analysis (VSA) tools currently on the market: the Layered Voice Analysis (LVA) and the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA). The methodology and sampling protocols for this study were derived from the pre-existing methodology and sampling techniques employed in the National Institute of Justice-funded Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program that operated in Oklahoma County from 1998 to 2004. The researchers interviewed arrestees in the Oklahoma County jail about their recent illicit drug use during the months of February and March 2006. The VSA data collected using each of the software systems in this study were sent to certified examiners from CVSA and LVA for their analysis. After the completion of the interview, the subjects were asked to complete the data collection process by supplying urine specimens. Answers from the 319 respondents were compared to the results of a urinalysis test to determine the extent to which they were being deceptive. Then, their "actual deceptiveness" was compared to the extent to which deception was indicated by the VSA programs. The dataset contains (1) demographic information obtained from the official booking records, (2) responses to survey questions about recent drug use, (3) the results of a urinalysis test on five drugs, (4) variables recording "deception" or "no deception" on each of the drugs, and (5) decisions by novice and expert analysts regarding the indication of deception.

Tags: adam-duf-program, drug-testing, drugs, evaluation, jail-inmates, jails, stress, urinalysis, voice-communications, voice-stress-analysis
Organization: Department of Justice
Aftercare Services for Juvenile Parolees with Mental Disorders in Ohio, 2005-2006

The purpose of the study was to examine the aftercare services juvenile parolees with mental disorders receive as they transition from correctional facilities to the community.  The study assessed rates of recidivism for juvenile parolees with mental disorders, the type and frequency of mental health care received in the community by youth on parole, and the relationship between parolees' recidivism and functional outcomes with their utilization of mental health care. The sample came from the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS), which covers youths aged 10 to 21 sentenced to correctional care for the 88 Ohio counties in 2005 and 2006. The actual cohort was composed of 175 youths aged 12 to 19 years who had a presumptive release date within the next 60 days and were placed on the mental health caseload. Data were collected in 2005 and 2006 at four time points:  one month pre-release, one month post-release, three months post-release, and six months post-release. Variables were gathered from the Ohio DYS and through the administration of a variety of standardized surveys and interview protocols. The main categories of variables include variables relating to arrest history and recidivism, variables relating to the mental health of subjects, variables relating to the administration of mental health treatment and health insurance coverage post-release, and demographic variables.

Tags: criminal-histories, delinquent-behavior, health-care-access, health-insurance, juvenile-offenders, juvenile-recidivists, mental-health, mental-health-services, postrelease-programs, prisoner-reentry, re, recidivism, recidivism-prediction, recidivism-rates
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing Identity Theft Offenders' Strategies and Perceptions of Risk in the United States, 2006-2007

The purpose of this study was to examine the crime of identity theft from the offenders' perspectives. The study employed a purposive sampling strategy. Researchers identified potential interview subjects by examining newspapers (using Lexis-Nexis), legal documents (using Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw), and United States Attorneys' Web sites for individuals charged with, indicted, and/or sentenced to prison for identity theft. Once this list was generated, researchers used the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Inmate Locator to determine if the individuals were currently housed in federal facilities. Researchers visited the facilities that housed the largest number of inmates on the list in each of the six regions in the United States as defined by the BOP (Western, North Central, South Central, North Eastern, Mid-Atlantic, and South Eastern) and solicited the inmates housed in these prisons. A total of 14 correctional facilities were visited and 65 individuals incarcerated for identity theft or identity theft related crimes were interviewed between March 2006 and February 2007. Researchers used semi-structured interviews to explore the offenders' decision-making processes. When possible, interviews were audio recorded and then transcribed verbatim. Part 1 (Quantitative Data) includes the demographic variables age, race, gender, number of children, highest level of education, and socioeconomic class while growing up. Other variables include prior arrests or convictions and offense type, prior drug use and if drug use contributed to identity theft, if employment facilitated identity theft, if they went to trial or plead to charges, and sentence length. Part 2 (Qualitative Data), includes demographic questions such as family situation while growing up, highest level of education, marital status, number of children, and employment status while committing identity theft crimes. Subjects were asked about prior criminal activity and drug use. Questions specific to identity theft include the age at which the person became involved  in identity theft, how many identities he or she had stolen, if they had worked with other people to steal identities, why they had become involved in identity theft, the skills necessary to steal identities, and the perceived risks involved in identity theft.

Tags: access-to-information, adult-offenders, federal-prisoners, felony-offenses, fraud, identity-theft, inmate-attitudes, personal-finances, property-crimes, stolen-property, white-collar-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
Registry of Randomized Criminal Justice Experiments in Sanctions, 1951-1983

This registry categorizes, summarizes, and analyzes
 datasets containing information on randomized criminal justice
 experiments in sanctions. These datasets vary in methodology,
 geographic region, and other aspects. Among the topics covered in this
 registry are the nature of offense being sanctioned, type of sanction,
 racial and sexual composition of the sample, and procedures and
outcomes of each collection.

Tags: criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, disposition-legal, gender, offenders, offenses, race, sanctions
Organization: Department of Justice
Retail-Level Heroin Enforcement and Property Crime in 30 Cities in Massachusetts, 1980-1986

In undertaking this data collection, the principal
investigators sought to determine (1) whether police enforcement
against drug crimes, specifically heroin crimes, had any influence on
the rates of nondrug crimes, and (2) what effect intensive law
enforcement programs against drug dealers had on residents where those
programs were operating. To achieve these objectives, data on crime
rates for seven successive years were collected from police records of
30 cities in Massachusetts. Data were collected for the following
offenses: murder, rape, robbery, assault, larceny, and automobile
theft. The investigators also interviewed a sample of residents from 3
of those 30 cities. Residents were queried about their opinions of the
most serious problem facing people today, their degree of concern about
being victims of crime, and their opinions of the effectiveness of law
enforcement agencies in handling drug problems.

Tags: assault, auto-theft, citizen-attitudes, crime-control, crime-rates, drug-law-enforcement, drug-law-offenses, drug-related-crimes, drug-traffic, larceny, law-enforcement-agencies, murder, rape, robbery
Organization: Department of Justice
Termination of Criminal Careers:  Measurement of Rates and Their Determinants in Detroit SMSA, 1974-1977

The purpose of this collection was to measure the length of 
 criminal careers and to correlate these lengths with other 
 characteristics such as age, race, sex, type of crimes committed, and 
 frequency of prior arrests. Determining the length of criminal activity 
 and its relation to other attributes is important in planning for 
 services such as prison space. Because of the difficulty in directly 
 monitoring illegal acts, arrests were used instead as an indicator of 
 criminal activity. Arrest data were gathered for murder, rape, robbery, 
 aggravated assault, burglary, and automobile theft. Using the first 
 arrest as an adult which took place between 1974 and 1977 as a 
 reference point, individuals' prior and continued activities were 
 followed. The data provide basic demographic information about 
 offenders and extensive information about arrests, from arrest charges 
through final disposition.

Tags: arrests, assault, auto-theft, burglary, career-criminals, criminal-histories, murder, rape, robbery
Organization: Department of Justice
Effects of Local Sanctions on Serious Criminal Offending in Cities with Populations Over 100,000, 1978-1983:  [United States]

These data assess the effects of the risk of local jail
 incarceration and of police aggressiveness in patrol style on rates of
 violent offending. The collection includes arrest rates for public
 order offenses, size of county jail populations, and numbers of new
 prison admissions as they relate to arrest rates for index (serious)
 crimes. Data were collected from seven sources for each city. CENSUS
 OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: SUMMARY TAPE FILE 1A
 (ICPSR 7941), provided county-level data on number of persons by race,
 age, and age by race, number of persons in households, and types of
 households within each county. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980
 [UNITED STATES]: SUMMARY TAPE FILE 3A (ICPSR 8071), measured at the
 city level, provided data on total population, race, age, marital
 status by sex, persons in household, number of households, housing,
 children, and families above and below the poverty level by race,
 employment by race, and income by race within each city. The Federal
 Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1980 data provided variables on total
 offenses and offense rates per 100,000 persons for homicides, rapes,
 robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle
 offenses, and arson. Data from the FBI for 1980-1982, averaged per
 100,000, provided variables for the above offenses by sex, age, and
 race, and the Uniform Crime Report arrest rates for index crimes
 within each city. The NATIONAL JAIL CENSUS for 1978 and 1983 (ICPSR
 7737 and ICPSR 8203), aggregated to the county level, provided
 variables on jail capacity, number of inmates being held by sex, race,
 and status of inmate's case (awaiting trial, awaiting sentence,
 serving sentence, and technical violations), average daily jail
 populations, number of staff by full-time and part-time, number of
 volunteers, and number of correctional officers. The JUVENILE
 DETENTION AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY CENSUS for 1979 and 1982-1983
 (ICPSR 7846 and 8205), aggregated to the county level, provided data
 on the number of individuals being held by type of crime and sex, as
 well as age of juvenile offenders by sex, average daily prison
population, and payroll and other expenditures for the institutions.

Tags: aggravated-assault, arrest-rates, arson, auto-theft, burglary, cities, demographic-characteristics, homicide, inmate-populations, jail-inmates, jails, larceny, rape, uniform-crime-reports
Organization: Department of Justice
Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime in the United States, 1980-1987

This collection focuses on how changes in the legal drinking
 age affect the number of fatal motor vehicle accidents and crime rates.
 The principal investigators identified three areas of study.
 First, they looked at blood alcohol content of drivers involved in
 fatal accidents in relation to changes in the drinking age. Second,
 they looked at how arrest rates correlated with changes in the drinking
 age. Finally, they looked at the relationship between blood alcohol
 content and arrest rates. In this context, the investigators used the
 percentage of drivers killed in fatal automobile accidents who had
 positive blood alcohol content as an indicator of drinking in the
 population. Arrests were used as a measure of crime, and arrest rates
 per capita were used to create comparability across states and over
 time. Arrests for certain crimes as a proportion of all arrests were
 used for other analyses to compensate for trends that affect the
 probability of arrests in general. This collection contains three
 parts. Variables in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data file
 (Part 1) include the state and year to which the data apply, the type of
 crime, and the sex and age category of those arrested for crimes. A
 single arrest is the unit of analysis for this file. Information in
 the Population Data file (Part 2) includes population counts for the
 number of individuals within each of seven age categories, as well as
 the number in the total population. There is also a figure for the number
 of individuals covered by the reporting police agencies from which data
 were gathered. The individual is the unit of analysis. The Fatal Accident
 Data file (Part 3) includes six variables: the FIPS code for the state,
 year of accident, and the sex, age group, and blood alcohol content of
 the individual killed. The final variable in each record is a count of
 the number of drivers killed in fatal motor vehicle accidents for that
 state and year who fit into the given sex, age, and blood alcohol content
grouping. A driver killed in a fatal accident is the unit of analysis.

Tags: alcohol-consumption, arrest-rates, crime, drinking-age, driving-under-the-influence, fatalities, traffic-accidents
Organization: Department of Justice
Age-by-Race Specific Crime Rates, 1965-1985:  [United States]

These data examine the effects on total crime rates of 
 changes in the demographic composition of the population and changes in 
 criminality of specific age and race groups. The collection contains 
 estimates from national data of annual age-by-race specific arrest 
 rates and crime rates for murder, robbery, and burglary over the 
 21-year period 1965-1985. The data address the following questions: (1) 
 Are the crime rates reported by the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) data 
 series valid indicators of national crime trends? (2) How much of the 
 change between 1965 and 1985 in total crime rates for murder, robbery, 
 and burglary is attributable to changes in the age and race composition 
 of the population, and how much is accounted for by changes in crime 
 rates within age-by-race specific subgroups? (3) What are the effects 
 of age and race on subgroup crime rates for murder, robbery, and 
 burglary? (4) What is the effect of time period on subgroup crime rates 
 for murder, robbery, and burglary? (5) What is the effect of birth 
 cohort, particularly the effect of the very large (baby-boom) cohorts 
 following World War II, on subgroup crime rates for murder, robbery, 
 and burglary? (6) What is the effect of interactions among age, race, 
 time period, and cohort on subgroup crime rates for murder, robbery, 
 and burglary? (7) How do patterns of age-by-race specific crime rates 
 for murder, robbery, and burglary compare for different demographic 
 subgroups? The variables in this study fall into four categories. The 
 first category includes variables that define the race-age cohort of 
 the unit of observation. The values of these variables are directly 
 available from UCR and include year of observation (from 1965-1985), 
 age group, and race. The second category of variables were computed 
 using UCR data pertaining to the first category of variables. These are 
 period, birth cohort of age group in each year, and average cohort size 
 for each single age within each single group. The third category 
 includes variables that describe the annual age-by-race specific arrest 
 rates for the different crime types. These variables were estimated for 
 race, age, group, crime type, and year using data directly available 
 from UCR and population estimates from Census publications. The fourth 
 category includes variables similar to the third group. Data for 
 estimating these variables were derived from available UCR data on the 
 total number of offenses known to the police and total arrests in 
 combination with the age-by-race specific arrest rates for the 
different crime types.

Tags: age, arrests, burglary, crime-rates, demographic-characteristics, murder, population-characteristics, race, rape, robbery
Organization: Department of Justice