AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Keeping the Peace:  Police Discretion and the Mentally Disordered in Chicago, 1980-1981

For this data collection, information on police-citizen
 encounters was collected to explore the peacekeeping functions of the
 police and their handling of encounters with mentally ill persons. The
 data were gathered for part or all of 270 shifts through observations
 by researchers riding in police cars in two Chicago police districts
 during a 14-month period in 1980-1981. In Part 1 (Shift Level),
 information was collected once per shift on the general level of
 activity during the shift and the observer's perceptions of
 emotions/attitudes displayed by the police officers he/she
 observed. The file also contains, for each of the 270 shifts,
 information about the personal characteristics, work history, and
 working relationships of the police officers observed. Part 2
 (Encounter Level) contains detailed information on each police-citizen
 encounter including its nature, location, police actions and/or
 responses, citizens involved, and their characteristics and
 behavior. A unique and consistent shift identification number is
 attached to each encounter so that information about police officer
 characteristics from Part 1 may be matched with Part 2. There are
 1,382 police-citizen encounters involving 2,555 citizens in this
collection.

Tags: criminal-justice-system, decision-making, emotional-states, job-history, mental-disorders, mental-health, offenders, police-citizen-interactions, police-officers, police-performance, police-response, work-attitudes
Organization: Department of Justice
Improving Correctional Classification, New York, 1981-1983

There were three specific goals of this research. The first
 was to evaluate three procedures currently available for the
 classification of correctional inmates: the Risk Analysis method,
 Megargee's Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Typology, and
 Toch's Prison Preference Inventory. Second, the research devised and
 tested a postdictive model of adjustment to prison life. Third, a new
 classification scheme was developed for predicting inmate adjustment
 to prison life that considers individual and organizational
 (contextual) factors and various interactions between the two. These
 data were collected from a sample of 942 volunteer inmates from ten
 New York state correctional facilities, five of which were maximum
 security and five of which were medium security facilities. Only
 one-half of the original 942 inmates completed the MMPI. Background
 and questionnaire data were collected during the summer and fall of
 1983. Outcome data on each inmate infraction were collected for a
 three-year period prior to that time. Each case in Part 1, Merged
 Survey Response File [PPQ, PEI, PAQ], represents survey response data
 from an individual inmate, with variables from the Prison Preference
 Questionnaire (PPQ), the Prison Environment Inventory (PEI), and the
 Prison Adjustment Questionnaire (PAQ). Cases in Part 2, Medical
 Records, are records of medical contacts and diagnoses of inmates'
 illnesses. Part 3, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory,
 contains personality assessment information and scores for each
 individual offender. Data in Part 4, Sample Data [Background
 Characteristics], consist of individual-based variables covering
 inmates' background characteristics. Part 5, Offenses and Disciplinary
 Action Records, contains records of offenses and disciplinary action
 by individual offender. The client number is unique and consistent
across all data files.

Tags: correctional-facilities, criminal-justice-system, health, inmates, mental-health, united-states
Organization: Department of Justice
Implementation of Community Corrections in Oregon, Colorado, and Connecticut [1981]

Data were collected from three states to evaluate the
 success of community corrections programs and to identify the
 conditions that underlie these successes. In-person field interviews,
 telephone interviews, and mailback questionnaires were used at state,
 county, and district levels. The variables in the study were designed
 to examine the kinds of people who implement and maintain these
 programs, the level of commitment by judicial and prison officials to
 these programs, community support, and the goals of cost reduction,
work training, and rehabilitation.

Tags: achievement, communities, community-service-programs, correctional-facilities, cost-effectiveness, criminal-justice-system, goals, parole-services, personnel, program-evaluation, rehabilitation-programs, success, training
Organization: Department of Justice
National Assessment of Criminal Justice Needs, 1983:  [United States]

In 1983, the National Institute of Justice sponsored a
 program evaluation survey by Abt Associates that was designed to
 identify the highest priority needs for management and operational
 improvements in the criminal justice system. Six groups were surveyed:
 judges and trial court administrators, corrections officials, public
 defenders, police, prosecutors, and probation/parole officials.
 Variables in this study include background information on the
 respondents' agencies, such as operating budget and number of
 employees, financial resources available to the agency, and technical
 assistance, research, and initiative programs used by the agency. The
 codebook includes the mailed questionnaire sent to each of the six
 groups in the study as well as a copy of the telephone interview
guide.

Tags: administration, budgets, correctional-facilities, court-system, criminal-justice-system, government-agencies, judicial-process, legal-systems, management, organizational-behavior, parole-services, police, policies-and-procedures, program-ev, united-states
Organization: Department of Justice
Learning Deficiencies Among Adult Inmates, 1982:  Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington

The National Institute of Justice sponsored this study of
1,065 prison inmates in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Respondents were administered an academic achievement test, the Tests
of Adult Basic Education, and an individual intelligence test, the
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Other screening
tests were also given to certain respondents, including the
Mann-Suiter Disabilities Screening Test and the Adaptive Behavior
Checklist. Data for each inmate includes offenses committed, prior
institutionalization, juvenile adjudication, years of formal
education, academic and vocational participation while incarcerated,
previous diagnoses, childhood home situation, death of parents, number
of siblings, and any childhood problems. Information on demographic
characteristics, such as age, sex, race, employment history, and
physical condition, is available for each respondent.

Tags: academic-ability, academic-achievement, criminal-histories, criminal-justice-system, educational-background, educationally-disadvantaged, family-histories, health-status, inmate-programs, job-history, justice, learning-disabilities, prison-inmates, test-s
Organization: Department of Justice
Forensic Evidence and the Police, 1976-1980

This data collection focuses on adult cases of serious
crime such as homicide (and related death investigations), rape,
robbery, aggravated assault/battery, burglary, and arson. Data are
included for Peoria, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Kansas City,
Missouri, and Oakland, California. The data consist of police, court,
and laboratory records from reports submitted by police personnel
during investigations of suspected criminal offenses. The primary
source of information was police case files. Prosecutor and court
files were reviewed for information regarding the disposition of
suspects who were arrested and formally charged. Crime laboratory
reports include information concerning the evidence submitted and the
examiner's worksheets, notes, and final results. There are eight
files in this dataset. Each of the four cities has one file for cases
with physical evidence and one file for cases in which physical
evidence was not collected or examined.

Tags: arrests, assault, burglary, convictions-law, crime, crime-laboratories, crime-prevention, criminal-investigations, disposition-legal, evidence, forensic-sciences, murder, police-records, rape, robbery, sentencing
Organization: Department of Justice
Calling the Police:  Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979

This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of
POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975 (ICPSR 7760). Information is
included on 4,095 reported incidents of aggravated assault, auto
theft, burglary, larceny/theft offenses, forcible rape, and
robbery. The data cover citizen calls to police between April 21 and
December 7, 1979. There are four files in this collection, one each
for Jacksonville, Florida, Peoria, Illinois, Rochester, New York, and
San Diego, California. The data are taken from police dispatch records
and police interviews of citizens who requested police assistance.
Variables taken from the dispatch records include the dispatch time,
call priority, police travel time, age, sex, and race of the caller,
response code, number of suspects, and area of the city in which the
call originated. Variables taken from the citizen interviews include
respondent's role in the incident (victim, caller, victim-caller,
witness-caller), incident location, relationship of caller to victim,
number of victims, identification of suspect, and interaction with
police.

Tags: assault, auto-theft, burglary, citizen-crime-reporting, larceny, offenses, police-citizen-interactions, police-protection, police-reports, rape, robbery, victims, witnesses
Organization: Department of Justice
Arrests Without Conviction, 1979-1980:  Jacksonville and San Diego

This data collection includes information on robberies and
 burglaries in two cities, Jacksonville, Florida, and San Diego,
 California. The unit of analysis is defendants in felony cases.
 Information on each defendant includes socioeconomic status, criminal
 history, weapon usage, relationship to victim, trial procedures, and
 disposition. Demographic information for each defendant includes sex,
 race, age, and employment status. There are five files in the
 dataset. Parts 4 and 5 must be merged to form the complete
Jacksonville burglaries dataset.

Tags: acquittals, arrests, burglary, conviction-rates, court-cases, criminal-histories, defendants, disposition-legal, felony-courts, robbery, socioeconomic-status, trials, weapons
Organization: Department of Justice
Survey of Jail and Prison Inmates, 1978:  California, Michigan, Texas

This survey was was conducted as part of the Rand 
 Corporation's research program on career criminals. Rand's Second 
 Inmate Survey was administered in late 1978 and early 1979 to convicted 
 male inmates at 12 prisons and 14 county jails in California, Michigan, 
 and Texas. The purpose of the survey was to provide detailed 
 information about the criminal behavior of offenders and their 
 associated characteristics. Emphasis was also placed on investigating 
 other major areas of interest such as the quality of prisoner 
 self-reports, varieties of criminal behavior, selective incapacitation, 
and prison treatment programs.

Tags: correctional-facilities, crime, criminal-justice-system, inmates, social-attitudes-and-behavior
Organization: Department of Justice
Crime, Fear, and Control in Neighborhood Commercial Centers:  Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1970-1982

The major objective of this study was to examine how
physical characteristics of commercial centers and demographic
characteristics of residential areas
contribute to crime and how these characteristics
affect reactions to crime in mixed commercial-residential settings.
Information on physical characteristics includes type of business,
store hours, arrangement of buildings, and defensive modifications in
the area. Demographic variables cover racial composition, average
household size and income, and percent change of occupancy. The crime
data describe six types of crime: robbery, burglary, assault, rape,
personal theft, and shoplifting.

Tags: assault, burglary, crime, demographic-characteristics, ethnicity, households, income, rape, robbery
Organization: Department of Justice
Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime, 1948-1977 [Racine, Wisconsin]: City Ecological Data

These data, intended for use in conjunction with JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY AND ADULT CRIME, 1948-1977 [RACINE, WISCONSIN]: THREE BIRTH
COHORTS (ICPSR 8163), are organized into two different types: Block
data and Home data. Part 1, Block Data, contains the characteristics of
each block in Racine for the years 1950, 1960, and 1970 as selected
from the United States Census of Housing for each of these years. The
data are presented for whole blocks for each year and for blocks
agglomerated into equal spaces so that comparison may be made between
the 1950, 1960, and 1970 data. In addition, land use and target density
(gas stations, grocery and liquor stores, restaurants, and taverns)
measures are included. The data were obtained from land use maps and
city directories. These block data have been aggregated into census
tracts, police grid areas, natural areas, and neighborhoods for the
purpose of describing the spatial units of each in comparable fashion
for 1950, 1960, and 1970. The information contained within the Block
Data file is intended to be used to merge ecological data with any of
the files described in the ICPSR 8163 codebook. The Home datasets
(Parts 2-6) contain selected variables from the Block Data file merged
with the Cohort Police Contact data or the Cohort Interview data from
ICPSR 8163. The Home datasets represent the merged files used by the
principal investigators for their analysis and are included here only
as examples of how the files from ICPSR 8163 may be merged with the
Block data.

Tags: census-data, crime, juvenile-delinquency, neighborhood-characteristics, neighborhood-conditions, neighborhoods
Organization: Department of Justice
Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime, 1948-1977 [Racine, Wisconsin]: Three Birth Cohorts

This data collection contains information on juvenile
delinquency and adult crime for three birth cohorts born in 1942, 1949,
and 1955 in Racine, Wisconsin. These individual-level data are
organized into three basic types: police contact data for the three
cohorts, interview and contact data for the 1942 and 1949 cohorts, and
contact data classified by age for all three cohorts. The police
contact data include information on the type and frequency of police
contacts by individual as well as the location, date, and number of the
first contact. The interview datasets contain information on police
contacts and a number of variables measured during personal interviews
with the 1942 and 1949 cohorts. The interview variables include
retrospective measures of the respondents' attitudes toward the police
and a variety of other variables such as socioeconomic status and age
at marriage. The age-by-age datasets provide juvenile court and police
contact data classified by age.

Tags: arrests, crime, criminal-justice-system, delinquent-behavior, police-response
Organization: Department of Justice
SLATS Truck Theft Data of New York City, 1976-1980

This data collection is one of three quantitative databases
comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the
Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on patterns of commercial
theft and characteristics of commercial thieves. This data collection
examines the methods used to commit various acts of theft that
involved a truck or the contents of a truck. These data were collected
from the files of a specialized New York City Police Department
detective squad called the Safe, Loft, and Truck Squad (SLATS), which
was created specifically to investigate commercial truck thefts. The
variables include type and value of stolen property, weapon
involvement, treatment of driver and helper, suspect characteristics,
and recovery information.

Tags: armed-robbery, arrests, auto-theft, burglary, cargo-security, cargo-shipments, carjacking, commercial-theft, larceny, police-records, property-crime-statistics, property-crimes, punishment, robbery, stolen-property, stolen-property-recovery, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
Port Authority Cargo Theft Data of New Jersey and New York, 1978-1980

This data collection is one of three quantitative databases
 comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the
 Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on patterns of commercial
 theft and characteristics of commercial thieves. This data collection
 contains information on methods used to commit commericial thefts
 involving cargo. The data include incident and missing cargo
 characteristics, suspect characteristics and punishments, and type and
 value of stolen property. Cargo thefts that occurred at John
 F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Newark
 International Airport, and the New York Marine Terminals at Brooklyn,
 Port Elizabeth, and Port Newark were included in the data, which were
 collected from the Crime Analysis Unit files of the Port Authorities
of New York and New Jersey.

Tags: airport-security, arrests, burglary, cargo-security, cargo-shipments, commercial-theft, larceny, new-jersey, new-york-city, new-york-state, police-records, property-crime-statistics, property-crimes, punishment, robbery, stolen-property, united-states
Organization: Department of Justice
Xenon (New Jersey) Commercial Burglary Data, 1979-1981

This data collection is one of three quantitative databases
comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the
Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on patterns of commercial
theft and characteristics of commercial thieves. This data collection
contains information on commercial burglary incidents in Xenon, New
Jersey. The data collection includes incident characteristics, theft
item, value of stolen property, and demographic information about the
suspect(s), such as police contacts, number of arrests, sex, race, and
age.

Tags: arrests, burglary, commercial-theft, larceny, police-records, property-crime-statistics, property-crimes, robbery, stolen-property, stolen-property-recovery
Organization: Department of Justice
Inmate Victimization in State Prisons in the United States, 1979

This data collection was designed to determine the nature
and extent of victimization in state prisons across the nation. In
particular, it examines topics such as prison living conditions,
prison programs, prison safety, and inmates' participation in or
victimization by other inmates with respect to several types of
property and bodily crimes. Also presented are a set of attitudinal
measures dealing with inmates' thoughts and perceptions on a variety
of subjects, including their reactions to general statements about
prison life and to a series of hypothetical situations.

Tags: assault, correctional-facilities, crime, criminal-justice-system, inmates, parole, victimization, violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Citizen Participation and Community Crime Prevention, 1979:  Chicago Metropolitan Area Survey

This survey was conducted as part of the Citizen
 Participation and Community Crime Prevention project at the Center for
 Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University. The
 project was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the wide range
 of activities in which the American public engages to be secure from
 crime. In particular, this survey was designed to identify the scope
 of anti-crime activities and investigate the processes that facilitate
 or inhibit the public's involvement in those activities. The
 geographical area for the survey was defined by the "commuting
 basin" of Chicago, excluding several independent cities and their
 suburbs (e.g., Aurora, Waukegan, and Joliet) on the northern and
 western fringes of that area, and excluding all areas in
 Indiana. Interviewing was carried out by the Survey Research
 Laboratory at the University of Illinois during June through August
 1979. Information was gathered on people's opinions toward safety,
 their involvement with crime prevention activities, and the quality of
 life in their neighborhoods. In addition, data were assembled from
 Census Bureau and police reports for each community area in which
respondents lived in the years immediately preceding the survey.

Tags: cities, crime, crime-prevention, illinois-chicago, neighborhoods, police-protection, quality-of-life, residential-environment, united-states, urban-affairs
Organization: Department of Justice
Civil Litigation in the United States, 1977-1979

The Civil Litigation Research Project, based at the 
 University of Wisconsin Law School, was organized in 1979 to develop a 
 large database on dispute processing and litigation and to collect 
 information on the costs of civil litigation. Data were gathered on 
 topics such as negotiation proceedings, relationship between lawyer and 
client, and organizations' influence on the outcome of a dispute.

Tags: arrests, attorneys, civil-law, court-cases, court-system, criminal-justice-system, disposition-legal, legal-systems, plea-negotiations
Organization: Department of Justice
Deterrent Effects of Arrests and Imprisonment in the United States, 1960-1977

Emerging from the tradition of econometric models of
deterrence and crime, this study attempts to improve estimates of how
crime rates are affected by the apprehension and punishment of persons
charged with criminal activity. These data are contained in two files:
Part 1, State Data, consists of a panel of observations from each of
the 50 states and contains information on
crime rates, clearance rates, length of time served, probability of
imprisonment, socioeconomic factors such as unemployment rates,
population levels, and income levels, and state and local expenditures
for police protection. Part 2, SMSA Data, consists of a panel of 77
SMSAs and contains information on crime rates, clearance rates, length
of time served, probability of imprisonment, socioeconomic factors
such as employment rates, population levels, and income levels, and
taxation and expenditure information.

Tags: arrests, auto-theft, burglary, convictions-law, correctional-facilities, crime, criminal-justice-system, inmates, jails, larceny, police, police-protection, robbery, social-attitudes, standard-metropolitan-statistical-areas, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice