AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Florida's Criminal Justice Workforce Research Information System, 1985-1996

This project sought to prove that research files could be
 created through the extraction of personnel management systems
 data. There were five goals associated with designing and creating the
 Florida Criminal Justice Workforce Research Information System: (1) to
 extract data from two transaction management information systems,
 which could then be used by researchers to describe and analyze the
 workforce that administers justice in Florida, (2) to pilot test the
 concept of developing a new research information source from existing
 data systems, (3) to forge partnerships with diverse criminal justice
 agencies having a mutual need to understand their respective
 workforces, (4) to design research files to enable internal and
 external researchers to utilize the data for analytical purposes, and
 (5) to describe the methodology used to create the workforce
 information system in sufficient detail to enable other states to
 replicate the process and develop their own criminal justice workforce
 research databases. The project was jointly conceived, designed, and
 completed by two state-level criminal justice agencies with diverse
 missions and responsibilities: the Florida Department of Law
 Enforcement (FDLE) and the Florida Department of Corrections
 (FDC). Data were extracted from two personnel management systems: the
 Automated Transaction Management System (ATMS) operated by the Florida
 Department of Law Enforcement, which contains data on all certified
 law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers in
 Florida (Part 1), and the Cooperative Personnel Employment System
 (COPES) operated by the Department of Management Services, which
 contains data on all state employees (Part 2). Parts 3-5 consist of
 data extracted from Parts 1 and 2 regarding certification status (Part
 3), education (Part 4), and training (Part 5). Two demographic
 variables, race and sex, are found in all parts. Parts 1 and 2 also
 contain variables on employment event type, employer type, position
 type, salary plan, job class, appointment status, and supervisor
 indicator. Part 3 variables are certification event type and
 certificate type. Part 4 variables include degree earned and area of
 degree. Part 5 includes a variable for passing or failing training
certification.

Tags: correctional-officers, criminal-justice-system, information-management, information-systems, law-enforcement-agencies, personnel-management, personnel-records, police-officers, probation-officers
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluating the Use of Iris Recognition Technology in Plumsted Township, New Jersey, 2002-2003

This study was conducted from October 2002 through July 2003 as a process and impact evaluation of iris recognition technology named T-PASS (Teacher-Parent Authorization Security System) used in three New Egypt schools in New Jersey. The research team observed the use of the iris scanners, both informally (Dataset 1) and formally (Dataset 2), using systematic social observation methods, collected "official" data on school visitation patterns (Dataset 3), and  administered surveys to parents and teachers (Datasets 4-7). The various data collection methods were intended to shed light on two key issues: what was the experience of the schools in implementing iris recognition technology, and what was the overall impact of the technology. Specific variables included in the study are demographic variables on survey respondents (parents and teachers), perceptions of safety and problems in the schools and surrounding neighborhoods, and comparisons of the T-PASS system to alternative entry systems such as the buzzer and swipe card methods.

Tags: crime-prevention, process-evaluation, school-security, technology
Organization: Department of Justice
Final Assessment of the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) in New Haven, Connecticut, 1994-2001

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of New
Haven, Connecticut's Strategic Approaches to Community Safety
Initiative (SACSI) project, named TimeZup, by measuring the impact of
the program on public safety, public fear, and law enforcement
relationships and operations. The study was conducted using data
retrieved from the New Haven Police Department's computerized records
and logs, on-site questionnaires, and phone interviews. Important
variables included in the study are number of violent gun crimes
committed, number and type of guns seized by the police, calls to the
police involving shootings or gun shots, the date and time of such
incidents, residents' perception of crime, safety and quality of
life in New Haven, and supervisees' perceptions of the TimeZup
program.

Tags: community-policing, crime-prevention, fear-of-crime, gun-control, gun-regulation, law-enforcement, public-safety, weapons-offenses
Organization: Department of Justice
Problem Behaviors in Maltreated Children and Youth:  Influential Child, Peer, and Caregiver Characteristics, 1999-2000 [United States]

This project examined the problem behaviors of maltreated
children and adolescents and the predictors of changes in behavior
over an 18-month period. Problem behaviors included aggression,
delinquency, risky sexual practices, substance abuse, and suicidal
behaviors. The project used data from the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), a national probability survey of
children assessed following a child maltreatment report. This
collection consists of SAS code used to produce subsets of the NSCAW
data and the analyses for three chapters of the project's final
report. Chapter 2 examined aggression and changes in behavior over 18
months for children aged six to ten years at the time of the baseline
interview. Chapter 3 examined self-reported delinquency and
caregiver-reported aggressive and delinquent behavior and changes in
behavior over 18 months for youth aged 11 to 15 years at the time of
the baseline interview. Chapter 4 examined risky behavior changes
(risky sexual behavior, substance abuse, and suicidal risk behavior)
over 18 months for youth aged 11 to 15 years at the time of the
baseline interview.

Tags: abused-children, adolescents, aggression, behavior-problems, caregivers, child-welfare, delinquent-behavior, family-histories, parent-child-relationship, risk-factors
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing Trends and Best Practices of Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Programs in the United States, 2003

This trends and best practices evaluation geared toward
motor vehicle theft prevention with a particular focus on the Watch
Your Car (WYC) program was conducted between October 2002 and March
2004. On-site and telephone interviews were conducted with
administrators from 11 of 13 WYC member states. Surveys were mailed to
the administrators of auto theft prevention programs in 36 non-WYC
states and the 10 cities with the highest motor vehicle theft rates.
Completed surveys were returned from 16 non-WYC states and five of the
high auto theft rate cities. Part 1, the survey for Watch Your Car
(WYC) program members, includes questions about how respondents
learned about the WYC program, their WYC related program activities,
the outcomes of their program, ways in which they might have done
things differently if given the opportunity, and summary questions
that asked WYC program administrators for their opinions about various
aspects of the overall WYC program. The survey for the nonmember
states, Part 2, and cities, Part 3, collected information about motor
vehicle theft prevention within the respondent's state or city and
asked questions about the respondent's knowledge of, and opinions
about, the Watch Your Car program.

Tags: auto-theft, crime-control-programs, crime-prevention, crime-reduction, property-crimes, stolen-property, stolen-vehicles
Organization: Department of Justice
Deterrent Effect of Curfew Enforcement: Operation Nightwatch in St. Louis, 2003-2005

This study was conducted between December 2003 and January
2005, to determine if the curfew check program in St. Louis, Missouri,
known as Nightwatch, was meeting its stated goals of reducing
recidivism and victimization among juvenile offenders. The study was
conducted using a pretest and two post-tests on an experimental group
and a comparison group. The pretest (Time 1) was given to 118
juveniles. The first post-test (Time 2) was completed by 78 juveniles
and the second post-test (Time 3) was completed by 37 juveniles. The
tests were designed to measure the respondents' perceptions of
certainty of punishment, as well as to measure their out of home
activities. Important variables included in the study are levels of
parental supervision, self-reported behaviors of the juvenile
respondent, perceived severity of punishments, measures of
impulsiveness, and self-reported victimization of the respondent, as
well as variables related to the Nightwatch program, including the
number of visits, sanctions or rewards received by the respondent.

Tags: crime-prevention, curfew, delinquent-behavior, juvenile-courts, juvenile-crime, juvenile-justice, juvenile-offenders, juvenile-sentencing, outcome-evaluation, punishment, recidivism, status-offenses, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
Domestic Violence Experiment in King's County (Brooklyn), New York, 1995-1997

The researchers sought to add to the incipient literature
on randomized studies of batterer treatment, by conducting an
experimental study that compared batterers assigned to treatment to
batterers assigned to a community service program irrelevant to the
problem of violence. The study was conducted using a true experimental
design and consisted of 376 spousal assault cases drawn from the Kings
County (New York) Criminal Court which were adjudicated between
February 19, 1995, and March 1, 1996. Batterers were mandated to
attend a 40-hour batterer treatment program or to complete 40 hours of
community service. The random assignment was made at sentencing, after
all parties (judge, prosecutor, and defense) had agreed that batterer
treatment was appropriate, the defendant agreed to treatment and was
accepted by the Alternatives to Violence (ATV) program, and the
program was available based on the random assignment process.
Interviews were also conducted with both the batterer and the victim
at sentencing as well as 6 months post-sentence and 12 months
post-sentence. These interviews collected data in areas regarding
demographics (first interview only), recidivism, beliefs about
domestic violence, conflict management strategies, locus of control,
and for victims, self esteem. Administrative records were also used to
obtain data regarding any new crimes committed.

Tags: domestic-assault, domestic-violence, offenders, recidivism, treatment, treatment-outcome, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Risk Management of Sexually Abusive Youth in Massachusetts, 1998-2004

The goal of this study was to assist the Massachusetts
Department of Social Services (DSS) with the risk management of youth
(aged 4 to 20), identified through the Assessment for Safe and
Appropriate Placement (ASAP) program, because of their sexually
inappropriate and coercive behavior. The mission of this project was
to identify and test potentially useful risk and protective factors
for adolescent and pre-adolescent youth who had already begun engaging
in sexually coercive behavior. An award from the National Institute of
Justice complemented and supported state funding for the research
project and permitted detailed coding of 822 cases selected from all
28 DSS area offices throughout Massachusetts. The first five months of
the research program had two priorities: (1) the creation of a
dictionary designed to permit maximally reliable coding of the
information gleaned from the DSS files on these youth, and (2) coding
a representative sample of youth on critical variables. Overall, the
researchers requested the files of approximately 1,300 ASAP-evaluated
youth. The present sample consists of 720 cases that had been coded,
checked, and entered when data analysis began at the beginning of June
2004. Variables include referral and placement history, demographic
characteristics, critical antecedent childhood life experiences,
familial/parental characteristics, presenting behavioral problems
including detailed coding of sexually normative, deviant
(paraphillic), inappropriate and coercive behaviors, and psychological
and/or emotional symptoms.

Tags: adolescents, juvenile-offenders, risk-management, sex-offenders, sexual-abuse, sexual-behavior, youthful-offenders, youths
Organization: Department of Justice
Sexual Assault During and After Separation or Divorce in Rural Ohio, 2003-2004

This qualitative study explored incidents of sexual assault
 of women by former husbands or cohabitants and the link to male peer
 support for sexually aggressive men in rural Ohio. Sexual assault was
 defined as unwanted sexual contact, sexual coercion, attempted rape,
 or rape. A series of screening questions were asked to determine a
 respondent's eligibility for inclusion in the study. The main criteria
 were being aged 18 or older and having ever had any type of unwanted
 sexual experience when they wanted to end, were trying to end, or
 after they had ended a relationship with a husband or live-in male
 partner. If they met the selection criteria, the women were invited to
 a semi-structured face-to-face interview at a time and place of their
 choosing. Between February 2003 and July 2004, 43 women were
 interviewed. The interviews included several demographic questions
 such as income, level of education, marital status, length of the
 relationship, and how long the respondent had lived in the area. Other
 questions asked about the unwanted sexual experiences, social support
networks, and male pornography use.

Tags: domestic-assault, domestic-violence, family-violence, intimate-partner-violence, pornography, sexual-assault, sexual-attitudes, social-attitudes, social-networks, social-support, spouse-abuse, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing Mental Health Problems Among Serious Delinquents Committed to the California Youth Authority, 1997-1999

This study was conducted to explore the usefulness of the
instruments used in the California Youth Authority's (CYA) Treatment
Needs Assessment (TNA) battery. A total of 836 wards who completed
screening questionnaires were followed to determine whether they were
subsequently placed in mental health programs, were prescribed
medications used to treat serious mental health problems, and/or were
identified by staff as requiring these services. Data for this study
were collected from hard-copy files maintained in CYA ward
institutions and the CYA central office. Specific variables include
the scale scores of the four instruments used in the TNA, demographic
variables of the ward, treatment received by the ward, and ward
behavior.

Tags: correctional-facilities-juveniles, juvenile-crime, juvenile-detention, juvenile-inmates, juvenile-offenders, mental-health, mental-health-services, treatment-programs, youthful-offenders
Organization: Department of Justice
Developing a Comprehensive Empirical Model of Policing in the United States, 1996-1999

The aim of this study was to provide a systematic empirical
assessment of three basic organizational premises of
Community-Oriented Policing (COP). This study constructed a
comprehensive data set by synthesizing data available in separate
national data sets on police agencies and communities. The base data
source used was the 1999 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative
Statistics (LEMAS) survey [LAW ENFORCEMENT MANAGEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATIVE STATISTICS (LEMAS), 1999 (ICPSR 3079)], which contained
data on police organizational characteristics and on adoption of
community-oriented policing procedures. The 1999 survey was
supplemented with additional organizational variables from the 1997
LEMAS survey [LAW ENFORCEMENT MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE STATISTICS
(LEMAS), 1997 (ICPSR 2700)] and from the 1996 Directory of Law
Enforcement Agencies [DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1996:
[UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 2260)]. Data on community characteristics were
extracted from the 1994 County and City Data Book, from the 1996 to
1999 Uniform Crime Reports [UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM
DATA. [UNITED STATES]: OFFENSES KNOWN AND CLEARANCES BY ARREST
(1996-1997: ICPSR 9028, 1998: ICPSR 2904, 1999: ICPSR 3158)], from the
1990 and 2000 Census Gazetteer files, and from Rural-Urban Community
classifications. The merging of the separate data sources was
accomplished by using the Law Enforcement Agency Identifiers Crosswalk
file [LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IDENTIFIERS CROSSWALK [UNITED STATES],
1996 (ICPSR 2876)]. In all, 23 data files from eight separate sources
collected by four different governmental agencies were used to create
the merged data set. The entire merging process resulted in a combined
final sample of 3,005 local general jurisdiction policing agencies.
Variables for this study provide information regarding police
organizational structure include type of government, type of agency,
and number and various types of employees. Several indices from the
LEMAS surveys are also provided. Community-oriented policing variables
are the percent of full-time sworn employees assigned to COP
positions, if the agency had a COP plan, and several indices from the
1999 LEMAS survey. Community context variables include various Census
population categories, rural-urban continuum (Beale) codes, urban
influence codes, and total serious crime rate for different year
ranges. Geographic variables include FIPS State, county, and place
codes, and region.

Tags: community-policing, organizational-structure, police-departments, workers
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of the Juvenile Breaking the Cycle Program in Lane County, Oregon, 2000-2002

This study was conducted between April 15, 2000 and
 November 15, 2002 to evaluate the effects of the Juvenile Break the
 Cycle program (JBTC) in Lane County, Oregon on the interim and
 longer-term outcomes for juvenile offenders who were deemed high risk
 and had a history of alcohol and/or other drug use. The study was
 conducted using three waves of interviews as well as administrative
 data. The baseline interview was given to and administrative data were
 collected on 306 juveniles. The 6-month follow-up interview was
 completed by 208 juveniles and the 12-month follow-up interview was
 completed by 183 juveniles. Variables included in the study are
 history of alcohol and/or other drug use, diagnosis of mental health
 problems, history of previous contact with the juvenile justice
 system, substance abuse risk score, total risk score, and history of
 substance abuse treatment or mental health counseling. Variables
 related to JBTC include program assignment, the number of drug test
 administered between interviews, and the number of positive drug
tests.

Tags: alcohol-abuse, drug-abuse, drug-treatment, evaluation, juvenile-crime, juvenile-justice, juvenile-offenders, mental-health, mental-health-services, recidivism, substance-abuse, substance-abuse-treatment, treatment-programs, youths-at-risk
Organization: Department of Justice
Dynamics of Retail Methamphetamine Markets in New York City, 2007-2009

The study was conducted to provide information about markets for, distribution of, and use of methamphetamine in New York City, both inside and outside of the MSM (men who have sex with men)/gay community. The study used Respondent Driven Sampling to recruit 132 methamphetamine market participants. Each respondent participated in a one to two hour structured interview combining both qualitative and quantitative responses. Each respondent was invited to recruit three additional eligible participants. Data collected included demographics, social network data, the respondent's market participation in obtaining and providing methamphetamine, consumption of methamphetamine, and experience with the criminal justice system and crime associated with participation in methamphetamine markets.

Tags: drug-abuse, drug-dependence, drug-traffic, drug-use, gay-community, gays-and-lesbians, lifestyles, male-offenders, methamphetamine, sexual-behavior, social-networks
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing Police Officers' Decision Making and Discretion in Making Traffic Stops in Savannah, Georgia, 2002

This study aimed to fill a void in the research regarding
 police behavior by focusing on the formation and creation of cognitive
 suspicion by officers. The study also examined formal actions (stops)
 taken by the police pursuant to that suspicion. The study was
 conducted using observational research methods and collected
 quantitative and qualitative data on officer suspicion. Data were
 collected by observers who rode along with patrol officers from April
 2002 to November 2002.  Field observers used three major data
 collection instruments in order to gather as much relevant information
 as possible from a variety of sources and in diverse situations. The
 Officer Form was an overall evaluation of the officer's
 decision-making characteristics, Suspicion Forms captured information
 each time an incident occurred, and a Suspect Form was a compilation
 of data from the citizen who had the encounter with the
 officer. Additional documents included informed consent forms, a card
 detailing the language to be used for the initial contact with
 citizens, and hourly activity forms. Anytime a suspicion was formed or
 a formal action was taken after a suspicion was formed, the observer
 debriefed the officer as to his or her thoughts and elicited the
 officer's overall rating of the encounter. Data in this collection
 include general demographic characteristics of the officer and the
 suspect, as well as the area in which the suspicion was formed. Data
 was also gathered regarding what led the officer to form a suspicion,
and why a person was or was not stopped.

Tags: cognitive-processes, decision-making, police-citizen-interactions, police-officers, police-patrol, suspect-identification, traffic-offenses
Organization: Department of Justice