AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs Series



The Census of
Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs (CPFFCL) was first conducted in
2003 to capture data on the 2002 workload and operations of the 351
publicly funded crime labs operating that year. It is produced every
three or four years since it was first conducted. The CPFFCL includes
all state, county, municipal, and federal crime labs that (1) are
solely funded by government or whose parent organization is a
government agency and (2) employ at least one full-time natural
scientist who examines physical evidence in criminal matters and
provides reports and opinion testimony with respect to such physical
evidence in courts of law. For example, this includes DNA testing and
controlled substance identification for federal, state, and local
jurisdictions. Some publicly funded crime labs are part of a multi-lab
system. The census attempted to collect information from each lab in
the system. Police identification units, although sometimes
responsible for fingerprint analysis, and privately operated
facilities were not included in the census.



Tags: budgets, crime-laboratories, criminal-investigations, dna-fingerprinting, expenditures, forensic-sciences, personnel, policies-and-procedures
Organization: Department of Justice
Effects of Determinant Sentencing on Institutional Climate and Prison Administration:  Connecticut, Minnesota, Illinois, 1981-1983

This data collection examines the effects of determinant
 sentencing on prison climate and administration. Three data collection
 periods are covered in the dataset. Parts 1-3 contain data taken from
 a total random sample of offenders housed at five prisons over all
 three data collection periods. Part 4 is an additional sample from the
 state of Connecticut of inmates serving determinate sentences,
 collected during the third period of data collection. Parts 5 and 6
 comprise indeterminate sample data from all three data collection
 periods, while Parts 7-9 contain determinate panel sample data from
 all three collection periods. There were six questionnaires used in
 collecting these data, covering inmates' feelings about their arrest,
 court case, and conviction, their feelings about the law, physical
 problems developed during their prison term, how their time was spent
 in prison, family contacts outside prison, relationships with other
 prisoners and guards, involvement in prison programs, and criminal
history.

Tags: correctional-facilities, correctional-reform, criminal-histories, criminal-justice-system, imprisonment, inmate-attitudes, justice, parole, prison-administration, prison-conditions, prison-inmates, sentencing
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of Intensive Probation in Milwaukee, 1980-1981

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results and 
 impact of a two-year experiment in innovative probation practices in 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After being classified according to the Wisconsin 
 risk and needs assessment scale, individuals who had been sentenced to 
 probation between January 2, 1980 and June 30, 1981 and had reported to 
 the probation department for intake were randomly assigned to one of 
 eight experimental and control groups. The experiment was limited to 
 adult residents of Milwaukee County who were not already on probation, 
 were not judged to be severe psychotic or severe sex-deviant cases, and 
 were not assigned to jail work-release sentences of more than ten days 
 followed by probation (Huber cases). There are three files in this data 
 collection: the Reassessment file, the Admissions/Terminations file, 
 and the Chronological file. Each case in the Reassessment and 
 Admissions/Terminations files represents data on an individual 
 probationer. There are 84 variables for 1343 cases in the Reassessment 
 file and 218 variables for 1922 cases in the Admissions/Terminations 
 file, both files have logical record lengths of 100 characters. Of the 
 1922 cases for which admissions data were collected (about 133 
 variables), 397 cases also have termination data available (an 
 additional 85 variables). Cases in the Chronological file are records 
 of probation agent contacts with probationers over the course of the 
 study. There are 17 variables for 47,169 cases (contacts) in this file 
 which includes information on 1781 probationers. As many as 270 
 contacts with a single probationer are recorded. This file has a 
logical record length of 80.

Tags: criminal-justice-system, probation, probation-conditions, probation-officers, probationers, program-evaluation
Organization: Department of Justice
Census of Urban Crime, 1970

This data collection contains information on urban crime in
the United States. The 331 variables include crime incidence, criminal
sanctions, police employment, police expenditures, police
unionization, city revenues and sources of revenue (including
intergovernmental transfers), property values, public sector package
characteristics, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and
housing and land use characteristics. The data were primarily gathered
from various governmental censuses: Census of Population, Census of
Housing, Census of Government, Census of Manufactures, and Census of
Business. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR
9028) and EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SYSTEM (ICPSR 7818) were used as supplemental sources.

Tags: census-data, cities, crime, crime-control-programs, crime-prevention, criminal-justice-policy, government-revenues, housing, municipal-expenditures, police, police-effectiveness, property-values, revenues, urban-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
State Appellate Court Adaptation to Caseload Increase, 1968-1984: [United States]

This data collection examines the impact of caseload
pressures on both intermediate appellate courts and supreme courts for
each state in the nation. The data describe in detail the changes made
by appellate courts and supply information related to each change.
These changes include (1) adding judges, law clerks and staff
attorneys, (2) expanding or creating intermediate appellate courts, (3)
reducing panel size, (4) using summary procedures, (5) curtailing
opinion practices by deciding cases without opinion or unpublished and
memo opinions, and (6) curtailing oral argument length.

Tags: court-system, criminal-justice-system, judicial-process
Organization: Department of Justice
Age Cohort Arrest Rates, 1970-1980

The data for this collection were gathered from the 1970 and
1980 Censuses and the Uniform Crime Reports for 1970 through 1980. The
unit of analysis in this data collection is cities. Included are
population totals by age group and arrest data for selected crimes by
age group for Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado,
Knoxville, Tennessee, San Jose, California, Spokane, Washington, and
Tucson, Arizona. Population data by sex and age for all cities are
contained in Part 4. The 123 variables provide data by age categories
ranging from age 5 to age 69. Part 1, the arrest file for Atlanta and
Chicago, provides arrest data for 1970 to 1980 by sex and age, ranging
from age 10 and under to age 65 and over. The arrest data for other
cities span two data files. Part 2 includes arrest data by sex for ages
15 to 24 for the years 1970 to 1980. Part 3 provides arrest data for
ages 25 to 65 and over for the years 1970, 1975, and 1980. Arrest data
are collected for the following crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery,
aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, other
assaults, arson, forgery, fraud, embezzlement, stolen property,
vandalism, weapons, prostitution, other sex offenses, opium abuse,
marijuana abuse, gambling, family offenses, drunk driving, liquor law
violations, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and all other
offenses combined.

Tags: arrest-rates, arrests, census-data, crime, offenses, population-size
Organization: Department of Justice
Influence of Sanctions and Opportunities on Rates of Bank Robbery, 1970-1975:  [United States]

This study was designed to explain variations in crime rates 
 and to examine the deterrent effects of sanctions on crime. The study 
 concentrated on bank robberies, but it also examined burglaries and 
 other kinds of robberies. In examining these effects the study 
 condidered three sets of factors: (1) Economic considerations-- the 
 cost/benefit factors that individuals consider in deciding whether or 
 not to perform a crime, (2) Degree of anomie--the amount of alienation 
 and isolation individuals feel toward society and the effect of these 
 feelings on the individuals' performing a crime, and (3) 
 Opportunity--the effect of exposure, attractiveness, and degree of 
 guardianship on an object being taken. These factors were explored by 
 gathering information on such topics as: crime clearance rates, 
 arrests, and sentences, bank attributes, and socioeconomic and 
demographic information.

Tags: arrests, banks, burglary, crime, criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, income, migration, robbery, sentencing, social-class-structure, unemployment, united-states, urban-affairs
Organization: Department of Justice
Cost Effectiveness of Misdemeanant Probation in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1981-1982

This research was designed to determine whether the
 supervision of misdemeanant probationers was cost-effective for
 increasing the level of successful probation completions in Hamilton
 County, Ohio. The primary objective was to examine the relationships
 among these factors: supervision costs, the collection of court costs,
 fines, and restitution, types of supervision, risk assessment, and
 probationer conduct for the population of probationers. Probationers
 were initially classified according to risk assessment and then
 randomly assigned to a supervision category. The probationer's risk
 potential was a numerical score derived from demographic background
 variables, prior record, and history of substance use. The DSCP
 (Degree of Successful Completion of Probation) was developed
 specifically to measure probationer conduct and to compare trends and
 relationships.  The variables examined in the study include: risk
 assessment at intake, supervision level assigned, number of times the
 probationer was assigned to probation, start and planned termination
 dates, date of last status change, status at termination, degree of
 successful completion of probation achieved, costs incurred in
 administering probation, and amounts collected from each probationer
 for court costs, restitution, and fines. Although data were collected
 on 7,072 misdemeanant probation experiences, there are only 2,756
 probationers included in the study. The remaining 4,316 cases were
 excluded due to failure of the probationer to show up for screening or
for other reasons that did not meet the research criteria.

Tags: administrative-costs, cost-effectiveness, court-costs, criminal-justice-system, probation, probation-conditions, program-evaluation, restitution-programs, risk-assessment, supervised-liberty
Organization: Department of Justice
Youths and Deterrence:  Columbia, South Carolina, 1979-1981

This is an investigation of a cohort of high school-aged
youth in Columbia, South Carolina. Surveys were conducted in three
consecutive years from 1979 to 1981 in nine high schools. Students
were interviewed for the first time at the beginning of their
sophomore year in high school. An identical questionnaire was given to
the same students when they were in the 11th and 12th grades. The
longitudinal data contain respondents' demographic and socioeconomic
characteristics, educational aspirations, occupational aims, and peer
group activities. Also included is information on offenses committed,
the number of times respondents were caught by the police, their
attitudes toward deviancy, and perceived certainty of punishment.

Tags: career-goals, crime, crime-prevention, education, high-school-students, juvenile-delinquency, secondary-education, students, youths
Organization: Department of Justice
Search Warrant Procedures in Seven Cities, 1984:  [United States]

These data were collected in seven unnamed cities by the
National Center of State Courts. Court cases were identified in one of
three ways: (1) observation during real-time interviews, (2) court
records of real-time interviews, or (3) court records of historical
cases. The variables in this dataset include the rank of the law
enforcement officer applying for the warrant, the type of agency
applying for the warrant, general object of the search requested,
specific area to be searched, type of crime being investigated,
central offense named in the warrant, evidence upon which the warrant
application is based, and disposition of the warrant application.

Tags: arrests, criminal-investigations, criminal-justice-system, disposition-legal, police-response, search-warrants, state-courts
Organization: Department of Justice
Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault: Minneapolis, 1981-1982

This data collection contains information on 330 incidents
of domestic violence in Minneapolis. Part 1, Police Data, contains data
from the initial police reports filled out after each incident. Parts
2-5 are based on interviews that were conducted with all parties to the
domestic assaults. Information for Part 2, Initial Data, was gathered
from the victims after the incidents. Part 3, Follow-Up Data, consists
of data from follow-up interviews with the victims and with relatives
and acquaintances of both victims and suspects. There could be up to 12
contacts per case. Suspect interviews are the source for Part 4,
Suspect Data. An experimental section, Part 5, Repeat Data, contains
information on repeat incidents of domestic assault from interviews
with victims. Parts 2-5 include items such as socioeconomic and
demographic data describing the suspect and the victim, relationship
(husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover, divorced, separated),
nature of the argument that spurred the assault, presence or absence of
physical violence, and the nature and extent of police contact in the
incident. The collection also includes police records, which are the
basis for Parts 6-9. These files record the date of the crime,
ethnicity of the participants, presence or absence of alcohol or drugs
and weapons, and whether a police assault occurred.

Tags: arrests, assault, crime, crime-prevention, demographic-characteristics, drug-law-offenses, ethnicity, violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Criminal Justice Response to Victim Harm in the United States, 1981

This data collection examines the ways in which victim harm 
 affects decisions regarding arrest, prosecution, and sentencing, and 
 the impact of these decisions on the victim's perception of the 
 criminal justice system. Five types of offenses were studied: homicide, 
 sexual assault, burglary, robbery, and aggravated assault. The victim 
 file contains information on personal characteristics, results of 
 victimization, involvement in case processing, use of victim assistance 
 service, satisfaction with case outcomes, and opinions about the court 
 system. The police file and the prosecutor file variables cover 
 personal background, screening decisions on scenario cases, 
 communication with victims, and opinions about the role of victims in 
 the criminal justice system. The prosecutor file also includes 
 sentencing recommendations on the scenarios. Data in the judge file 
 cover personal background, sentencing recommendations on the scenario 
 cases, communications with victims, sources of information regarding 
 victim harm, and opinions about the role of victims in the criminal 
justice system.

Tags: aggravated-assault, arrests, burglary, case-processing, criminal-justice-system, homicide, perceptions, prosecution, robbery, sentencing, sexual-assault, victim-services, victimization, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Effectiveness of Police Response: Denver, 1982

This data collection investigates the nature of law
 enforcement by recording police behavior in problematic situations,
 primarily disturbances and traffic stops. The data collection contains
 two files. The first consists of information on disturbance
 encounters. Disturbance variables include type of disturbance, manner
 of investigation, designation of police response, several situational
 variables such as type of setting, number of victims, bystanders,
 suspects, and witnesses, demeanor of participants toward the police,
 type of police response, and demeanor of police toward
 participants. The second file contains data on traffic offenses. The
 variables include manner of investigation, incident code, officers'
 description of the incident, condition of the vehicle stopped, police
 contact with the passengers of the vehicle, demeanor of passengers
 toward the police, demeanor of police toward the passengers, and
 resolution of the situation. The data were collected based on field
observation, using an instrument for recording observations.

Tags: crime-control, crime-prevention, law-enforcement, police-community-relations, police-effectiveness, police-response, traffic-offenses
Organization: Department of Justice
Reactions to Crime in Atlanta and Chicago, 1979-1980

Two previously released data collections from ICPSR are
combined in this dataset: CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH AND LOW CRIME
NEIGHBORHOODS IN ATLANTA, 1980 (ICPSR 7951) and CRIME FACTORS AND
NEIGHBORHOOD DECLINE IN CHICAGO, 1979 (ICPSR 7952). Information for
ICPSR 7951 was obtained from 523 residents interviewed in six selected
neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia. A research team from the Research
Triangle Institute sampled and surveyed the residents.  ICPSR 7952
contains 3,310 interviews of Chicago residents in eight selected
neighborhoods. The combined data collection contains variables on
topics such as residents' demographics and socioeconomic status,
personal crime rates, property crime rates, neighborhood crime rates,
and neighborhood characteristics. The documentation contains three
pieces of information for each variable: variable reference numbers
for both the Atlanta and Chicago datasets, the complete wording of the
questions put to the respondents of each survey, and the exact wording of
the coding schemes adopted by the researchers.

Tags: cities, communities, community-participation, crime, crime-impact, fear-of-crime, juvenile-offenders, neighborhood-conditions, police-effectiveness, police-protection, property-values, race-relations, reactions-to-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of the No Early Release Act (NERA) on Prosecution and Sentencing in New Jersey, 1996-2000

This study examined New Jersey's No Early Release Act
(NERA), which became effective in 1997. NERA required that offenders
convicted of violent crimes serve at least 85 percent of their
sentences before becoming eligible for parole. This study's primary
goal was to determine whether prosecutors changed their charging and
plea bargaining practices in order to obtain sentences under NERA that
were roughly equivalent to those imposed before NERA. Data were
obtained from the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts for
1996 to May 2000. These data included every case in which a crime
covered by the No Early Release Act was charged and, for comparison,
every case involving a burglary charge, a charge not covered by
NERA. These data cover defendants' progress through the New Jersey
court system, including the initial charge, indictment, and
sentencing.

Tags: disposition-legal, mandatory-sentences, plea-bargains, prosecuting-attorneys, sentencing-reforms
Organization: Department of Justice
Assessing the Delivery of Community Policing Services in Ada County, Idaho, 2002

This study was conducted to explore the ways that enable
 the Ada County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) to examine its behavior in five
 areas that embody its adoption of community policing elements: (1)
 periodic assessments of citizens' perceptions of crime and police
 services, (2) substation policing, (3) patrol based in
 problem-oriented identification and resolution, (4) performance
 evaluation in a community-oriented policing (COP)/problem-oriented
 policing (POP) environment, and (5) the building of community
 partnerships. The researchers strived to obtain both transitive and
 recursive effects. One of the goals of this project was to facilitate
 the ACSO's efforts toward self-reflection, and by doing so, become a
 learning organization. In order to do this, data were collected, via
 survey, from both citizens of Ada County and from deputies employed by
 the ACSO. The citizen survey was a random, stratified telephone
 survey, using CATI technology, administered to 761 Ada County
 residents who received patrol services from the ACSO. The survey was
 designed to correspond to a similar survey conducted in 1997
 (DEVELOPING A PROBLEM-ORIENTED POLICING MODEL IN ADA COUNTY, IDAHO,
 1997-1998 [ICPSR 2654]) in the same area regarding similar issues:
 citizens' fear of crime, citizens' satisfaction with police services,
 the extent of public knowledge about and interest in ideas of
 community policing, citizens' police service needs, sheriff's office
 service needs and their views of the community policing mandate. The
 deputy survey was a self-enumerated questionnaire administered to 54
 deputies and sergeants of the ACSO during a pre-arranged, regular
 monthly training. This survey consisted of four sections: the
 deputies' perception of crime problems, rating of the deputy
 performance evaluation, ethical issues in policing, and departmental
relations.

Tags: attitudes, community-policing, fear-of-crime, law-enforcement-agencies, organizational-change, perceptions, police-citizen-interactions, police-community-relations, police-departments, police-effectiveness, public-safety, rural-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women's Labor Force Participation in Illinois, 1999-2002


The first goal of this study was to identify the incidence of partner violence among Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients over a three-year period. The second goal of this study was to examine the impact of partner violence on women's labor force participation over time. A final goal of this research was to explore the short and longer-term consequences of victimization on women's employment and economic well-being, as well as their physical and mental health.


This study used the first three years of data from the Illinois Families Study (IFS). The first of the annual surveys was administered between November 1999 and September 2000, the second between February 2001 and September 2001, and the third between February 2002 and September 2002.


The three data files contain very similar information including such items as a household roster, housing and neighborhood characteristics, employment, literacy and skills, parenting, and children. There is also information related to the respondent's history, health, self-efficacy, life events, experiences with domestic violence, civic participation and social support, income resources, and experiences with welfare.


The Part 1 (Wave 1 Data) data file contains 1,323 cases and 942 variables.
The Part 2 (Wave 2 Data) data file contains 1,183 cases and 763 variables.
The Part 3 (Wave 3 Data) data file contains 1,072 cases and 778 variables.

Additional information about the Illinois Families Study (IFS) is available on the IFS Web site.

Tags: employment, health-status, intimate-partner-violence, job-history, mental-health, violence-against-women, welfare-reform
Organization: Department of Justice