AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Family, Peer and Neighborhood-level Protective Factors within the Developmental Assets Framework: A Longitudinal Analysis of Behavioral Adaptation for Urban Youth Exposed to Community Violence in Chicago, 1994-2002

This study used longitudinal data from 1,114 youth ages 11-16 and their neighborhoods from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine whether baseline interpersonal and neighborhood protective factors predicted behavioral adjustment at waves 2 and 3 among youth who were victims of, witnesses of, or unexposed to violence, controlling for individual and neighborhood-level risks.

Tags: adolescents, aggression, behavior-modification, child-development, children, communities, delinquent-behavior, human-behavior, neighborhood-characteristics, neighborhood-conditions, neighborhoods, violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing Consistency and Fairness in Sentencing in Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia, 2001-2002, 2004

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the integrity of sentencing outcomes under alternative state guideline systems and to investigate how this variation in structure impacted actual sentencing practice.  The research team sought to address the question, to what extent do sentencing guidelines contribute to the goals of consistency, proportionality, and a lack of discrimination.  The National Center for State Courts conducted an examination of sentencing patterns in three states with substantially different guidelines systems: Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia.  The three states vary along critical dimensions of the presumptive versus voluntary nature of guidelines as well as basic mechanics. There are differences in the formal design, administration, and statutory framework of the Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia sentencing systems. For the 2004 Michigan Sentencing Outcomes Data (Part 1), the Michigan Department of Corrections Offender Management Network Information System (OMNI) provided sentencing guideline data for 32,754 individual offenders sentenced during calendar year 2004. For the 2002 Minnesota Sentencing Outcomes Data (Part 2), the Minnesota Sentencing Commission provided data for 12,978 individual offenders sentenced in calendar year 2002. The Virginia Sentencing Commission provided the Fiscal Year 2002 Virginia Assault Sentencing Outcomes Data (Part 3) and the Fiscal Year 2002 Virginia Burglary Sentencing Outcomes Data (Part 4). The Assault and Burglary/Dwelling crime groups have 1,614 and 1,743 observations, respectively.  Variables in the four datasets are classified into the broad categories of conviction offense severity, prior record, offense seriousness, grid cell type, habitual/modifiers, departure, and extra guideline variables.

Tags: correctional-classification, discrimination, imprisonment, judicial-decisions, offenders, offenders-sentencing, offense-classification, offenses, prison-inmates, sentencing, sentencing-guidelines
Organization: Department of Justice
Participatory Evaluation of the Sisseton Wahepton Oyate Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program Demonstration Project in the United States, 2006-2007

A participatory evaluation model was used to evaluate the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) Indian Alcohol Substance Abuse Program (IASAP) project. The Community Survey (Part 1, Community Survey Quantitative Data) was used to obtain tribal members' perceptions related to the welfare of the community and their perceived levels of satisfaction with how their challenges and problems were being addressed. Data were collected between August 2006 and April 2007 using a convenience sample (n=100). Focus groups (Part 2, Focus Group Interview Qualitative Data) were held with key stake holders from five groups: past adult clients (n=6), parents of juvenile probationers (n=4), service providers and key project staff (n=4), elders (n=5), and policy-makers (n=2). The focus groups were held during three site visits between October 2006 and April 2007. Part 1 (Community Survey Quantitative Data) includes demographic variables such as gender, age, tribal enrollment status, number of years in the community, and experiences with criminal justice systems (both on and off the reservation). Other questions asked the respondent about major problems within the community (i.e., alcohol and drug use, violent crime, child and elder abuse or neglect, gang activity, and property crime) and what was being done to address the problem. Part 2 (Focus Group Interview Qualitative Data) variables were developed based on the type of focus group. Questions for past drug court participants and parents of the juvenile probationers focused on their experiences with the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program (IASAP). Questions for policy-makers, service providers, and program staff focused  on the impact and sustainability of the IASAP. Questions for elders focused on issues related to culture, traditional practices, and the barriers to providing cultural and/or traditional services.

Tags: alcohol, alcohol-abuse, driving-under-the-influence, drug-related-crimes, native-americans, public-safety, substance-abuse-treatment, tribal-courts
Organization: Department of Justice
Exploring Factors Influencing Family Members Connections to Incarcerated Individuals in New Jersey, 2005-2006

In order to develop a better understanding of the factors that influence whether a male prisoner's family stays involved in his life during incarceration, researchers conducted face-to-face interviews with inmates from two New Jersey prisons and their family members between May 2005 and July 2006. A total of 35 (25 from one prison and 10 from the other) inmates and 15 family members were interviewed, comprising 13 inmate and family dyads, 1 inmate and family triad, and an additional 21 inmate interviews. The data include variables that explore the family's relationship with the incarcerated individual in the following areas: the inmate's relationship with the family prior to the incarceration, the strain (emotional, economic, stigma) that the incarceration has placed on the family, the economic resources available to the family to maintain the inmate, the family's social support system, and the inmate's efforts to improve or rehabilitate himself while incarcerated.

Tags: crime-impact, family-life, family-relations, imprisonment, inmate-attitudes, inmates, life-events, male-inmates
Organization: Department of Justice
Law Enforcement and Sex Offender Registration and Notification: Perspectives, Uses, and Experiences, 2014-2015 [United States]

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 represents the first comprehensive national assessment of law enforcement uses of and perspectives on sex offender registration and notification (SORN) systems. The two-year, mixed-method study featured collection and analysis of interview data from over two-dozen jurisdictions, and administration of a nationwide survey of law enforcement professionals. The study examined ways in which law enforcement leaders, uniformed staff, and civilian staff engaged in SORN-related duties perceive SORN's roles and functions, general effectiveness, and informational utility. Additionally, the study elicited law enforcement perspectives related to promising SORN and related sex offender management practices, perceived barriers and challenges to effectiveness, and policy reform priorities.
This collection includes two SPSS data files and one SPSS syntax file: "LE Qualitative Data.sav" with 55 variables and 101 cases, "LE Quantitative Data-ICPSR.sav" with 201 variables and 1402 cases and "LE Quantitative Data Syntax.sps".
Qualitative data from interviews conducted with law enorcement professionals are not available at this time.

Tags: law-enforcement, police-departments, police-effectiveness, police-reports, sex-offender-profiles, sex-offender-registration, sex-offenses, sexual-assault
Organization: Department of Justice
White-Collar and Corporate Frauds:  Understanding and Measuring Public Policy Preferences, United States, 2015

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 contains data from an on-line national survey of 2,050 respondents aged 18+. The data were collected to provide new policy-relevant evidence on the public's attitude towards white-collar and corporate frauds by asking questions about the public's willingness to pay for reducing white-collar crimes when provided information about the estimate of financial losses, context and seriousness. Further, the study quantifies public perceptions of seriousness link to specific policy preferences.
This study includes one STATA data file: Formatted_WTP_Dataset_11-10-16.dta (138 variables, 2050 cases).

Tags: crime-control-policies, crime-impact, victim-compensation, white-collar-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing the Influence of Home Visit Themes and Temporal Ordering On High-Risk Parolee Outcomes, Georgia, 2011-2015

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 project explored the intensity of supervision conditions on parole failures by considering the role of home visits in five major events: general violations, drug test failures, technical violation arrests, new felony arrests, and revocations. Longitudinal data from the State of Georgia were pooled to examine 28,284 parolees who completed supervision in 2011 - 2013. 

Qualitative data analyzing case notes on home visits obtained from an offender case management system on high risk parolees who entered supervision between 2008, 2010 and 2012 and exited between 2011 through 2013 are not archived with  ICPSR. 
The study collection includes 2 SPSS data files:  Historical_Agency_Dataset.sav (n=28,284; 39 variables) and Observational_Dataset.sav (n=383; 122 variables).

Tags: parole, parole-officers, parole-violation, parolees
Organization: Department of Justice
The National Survey of Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV), [United States], 2013-2017


The National Survey of Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV) examines the changing nature of adolescent dating relationships, particularly those marked by adolescent relationship abuse (ARA). More specifically, this study was designed to produce nationally representative estimates of the prevalence of multiple forms of ARA among youth (ages 10-18), to document the characteristics of abusive relationships during adolescence, to assess ARA risk factors, and to situate these estimates within the environment of adolescents' key social relationships and communications.


STRiV includes individual data from a nationally representative sample of households with at least one resident youth. Baseline and follow-up surveys were completed using a secure web survey with toll-free telephone and online help available.


Tags: adolescents, children, dating-social, domestic-violence, family-relationships, friendships, households, intimate-partner-violence, intimate-partners, parent-child-relationship, parental-attitudes, sexual-assault, sexual-behavior, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Defining Law Enforcement's Role in Protecting American Agriculture From Agroterrorism in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, 2003-2004

The study was conducted to determine law enforcement's role in protecting American agriculture from terrorism. In particular, the study looked at what effect a widespread introduction of Foot and Mouth disease to America's livestock supply would have on the nation's economy, and law enforcement's ability to contain such an outbreak. The study had two primary components. One component of the study was designed to take an initial look at the preparedness of law enforcement in Kansas to respond to such acts. This was done through a survey completed by 85 sheriffs in Kansas (Part 1). The other component of the study was an assessment of the attitudes of persons who work in the livestock industry with regard to their attitudes about vulnerabilities, prevention strategies, and working relationships with public officials and other livestock industry affiliates. This was done through a survey completed by 133 livestock industry members in Kansas (Parts 2-3, 6-9, 12-13), Oklahoma (Parts 4, 10, 14), and Texas (Parts 5, 11, 15).

Tags: agricultural-policy, agriculture, bioterrorism, crime-prevention, economic-crises, emergency-preparedness, farms, national-security, police-response, terrorism, terrorist-threat
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of Drug Treatment Programs at the State Correctional Institution in Chester, Pennsylvania, 2003-2004

The purpose of this project was to evaluate the alcohol and
other drug (AOD) treatment programs at a specialized treatment prison,
the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Chester, Pennsylvania. The
Chester prison is a 1,215-bed medium security prison for male inmates
with a documented history of substance abuse. Programs included an
intensive, 12-month therapeutic community (TC) drug treatment for
high-need inmates and a 12-month outpatient (OP) program for inmates
requiring less intensive treatment. Inmates who met eligibility
criteria for the Chester facility were randomly assigned to the TC (n
= 347) or OP (n = 384) program. The researchers utilized individual
measures and outcome measures in this study.

Tags: correctional-facilities, drug-treatment, inmates, program-evaluation, residential-programs, substance-abuse, substance-abuse-treatment, treatment-facilities, treatment-outcomes, treatment-programs
Organization: Department of Justice
Survey of Police Chiefs' and Data Analysts' Use of Data in Police Departments in the United States, 2004

This study surveyed police chiefs and data analysts in order to determine the use of data in police departments. The surveys were sent to 1,379 police agencies serving populations of at least 25,000. The survey sample for this study was selected from the 2000 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey. All police agencies serving populations of at least 25,000 were selected from the LEMAS database for inclusion. Separate surveys were sent for completion by police chiefs and data analysts. Surveys were used to gather information on data sharing and integration efforts to identify the needs and capacities for data usage in local law enforcement agencies. The police chief surveys focused on five main areas of interest: use of data, personnel response to data collection, the collection and reporting of incident-based data, sharing data, and the providing of statistics to the community and media. Like the police chief surveys, the data analyst surveys focused on five main areas of interest: use of data, agency structures and resources, data for strategies, data sharing and outside assistance, and incident-based data. The final total of police chief surveys included in the study is 790, while 752 data analyst responses are included.

Tags: crime-reporting, crime-statistics, data, databases, information-systems, law-enforcement-agencies, police-departments, police-records, police-reports, policy-analysis, policy-making
Organization: Department of Justice
Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in Chicago, Illinois, 1994-2000

This study used data from the first two waves of the
 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) to
 analyze the consequences of childhood exposure to intimate partner
 violence. The researcher for this study attempted to make four
 contributions: (1) provide theory driven research in the field of
 intimate partner violence, (2) do practical research, (3) strike a
 balance between the resolution of measurement problems and the
 examination of concrete outcomes, and (4) use high quality data and
 advanced statistical techniques to adjudicate between conflicting
 findings in existing literature. The nine data files used in this
 study were drawn from multiple imputed iterations using the
 Expectation-Maximization (E.M.) algorithm and data augmentation to
 address missing data. They included data from two waves of the PHDCN,
 with 4,955 records for each wave. The data included information for
 subjects aged 0 to 18 and covered the years 1994 to 2000. The
 researcher used various scales to measure domestic violence exposer,
 the impact of exposure on the child's cognitive functioning, the
 behavioral impact of exposure to domestic violence, anxiety, and the
 parent-child relationship. Data include the variables that the
 researcher used to study the effect of domestic violence exposure on
 not only externalizing, internalizing, and total behavior problems,
 and academic and cognitive ability, but also truancy, grade
 repetition, and drug use. This study also contains a selection of
 variables from several PHDCN studies including those pertaining to
 intimate partner violence, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, deviance
 of peers, alcohol use, primary caregiver involvement in the subject's
life, and demographics.

Tags: adolescents, alcohol, alcohol-consumption, anxiety, behavior-problems, caregivers, child-development, childhood, delinquent-behavior, depression-psychology, domestic-violence, education, emotional-problems, evaluation, intimate-partner-violence, juvenil
Organization: Department of Justice
Arrests As Communications to Criminals in St. Louis, 1970, 1972-1982

This data collection was designed to assess the deterrent
effects over time of police sanctioning activity, specifically that of
arrests. Arrest and crime report data were collected from the
St. Louis Police Department and divided into two categories: all
Uniform Crime Reporting Program Part I crime reports, including
arrests, and Part I felony arrests. The police department also
generated geographical "x" and "y" coordinates corresponding to
the longitude and latitude where each crime and arrest took
place. Part 1 of this collection contains data on all reports made to
police regarding Part I felony crimes from 1970 to 1982 (excluding
1971). Parts 2-13 contain the yearly data that were concatenated into
one file for Part 1. Variables in Parts 2-13 include offense code,
census tract, police district, police area, city block, date of crime,
time crime occurred, value of property taken, and "x" and "y"
coordinates of crime and arrest locations. Part 14 contains data on
all Part I felony arrests. Included is information on offense charged,
the marital status, sex, and race of the person arrested, census tract
of arrest, and "x" and "y" coordinates.

Tags: arrest-rates, arrests, crime-mapping, crime-statistics, deterrence, felony-offenses
Organization: Department of Justice
Comparison of Drug Control Strategies in San Diego, 1989

This study assesses the consequences for offenders of
 various drug enforcement strategies employed by the San Diego Police
 Department and profiles the factors that characterize street-level and
 mid-level dealers, drug users, and the drug market. The drug
 enforcement strategies examined include the use of search warrants,
 body wires, police decoys, surveillance, officer buys and sells,
 wiretaps, and sweeps. Measures of the consequences of arrests include
 drug and property seizures, convictions, and sentences. The data were
 drawn from police and court records of drug arrests made by three
 special sections of the police department in San Diego, California.
 Additionally, data were collected through personal interviews
 conducted at the time of arrest with a subsample of persons arrested
 for drug charges. The arrest tracking file, Part 1, contains
 demographic information about the offenders, including criminal
 history and gang membership, as well as data on each arrest through
 final disposition, charges, and sentencing. The interview portion of
 the study, Part 2, provides information about the demographics and
 characteristics of drug users and dealers, criminal history and drug
 use history, current arrest information, and offenders' opinions about
drug use, drug sales, police strategies, and the drug market.

Tags: arrests, convictions-law, drug-law-enforcement, drug-laws, drug-offender-profiles, drug-offenders, drug-traffic, police-departments, search-warrants, sentencing, surveillance
Organization: Department of Justice
Techniques for Assessing the Accuracy of Recidivism Prediction Scales, 1960-1980: [Miami, Albuquerque, New York City, Alameda and Los Angeles Counties, and the State of California]

The purpose of this data collection was to measure the
 validity or accuracy of four recidivism prediction instruments: the
 INSLAW, RAND, SFS81, and CGR scales. These scales estimate the
 probability that criminals will commit subsequent crimes quickly, that
 individuals will commit crime frequently, that inmates who are
 eligible for release on parole will commit subsequent crimes, and that
 defendants awaiting trial will commit crimes while on pretrial arrest
 or detention. The investigators used longitudinal data from five
 existing independent studies to assess the validity of the four
 predictive measures in question. The first data file was originally
 collected by the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City and was
 derived from an experimental evaluation of a jobs training program
 called the Alternative Youth Employment Strategies Project implemented
 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Miami, Florida, and New York City, New
 York. The second file contains data from a RAND Corporation study,
 EFFECTS OF PRISON VERSUS PROBATION IN CALIFORNIA, 1980-1982 (ICPSR
 8700), from offenders in Alameda and Los Angeles counties,
 California. Parts 3 through 5 pertain to serious juvenile offenders
 who were incarcerated during the 1960s and 1970s in three institutions
 of the California Youth Authority. A portion of the original data for
 these parts was taken from EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF THE CHRONIC
 OFFENDER, [1978-1980: CALIFORNIA] (ICPSR 8226). All files present
 demographic and socioeconomic variables such as birth information,
 race and ethnicity, education background, work and military
 experience, and criminal history, including involvement in criminal
 activities, drug addiction, and incarceration episodes. From the
 variables in each data file, standard variables across all data files
 were constructed. Constructed variables included those on background
 (such as drug use, arrest, conviction, employment, and education
 history), which were used to construct the four predictive scales, and
 follow-up variables concerning arrest and incarceration
history. Scores on the four predictive scales were estimated.

Tags: criminal-histories, criminality-prediction, imprisonment, juvenile-offenders, probation, recidivism-prediction, recidivists
Organization: Department of Justice