AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Efficacy of Treatment Modalities in the Context of Adult Drug Courts in Four Jurisdictions in the United States, 1997-2002

This study examined adult drug treatment courts. Drug
treatment courts are intended to reduce the recidivism of drug-involved
offenders by changing their drug-use habits. These courts provide a
connection between the criminal justice and treatment systems by
combining treatment with structured sanctions and rewards. Researchers
collected data between February 2001 and May 2002 on drug court
participants, treatment services and staff, and organizations involved
in drug court operations in four jurisdictions: Bakersfield, California,
Jackson County, Missouri, Creek County, Oklahoma, and St. Mary Parish,
Louisiana. Part 1, Retrospective Participant Data, contains recidivism
and treatment data on 2,357 drug treatment court participants who were
enrolled in one of the drug courts between January 1997 and December
2000. Part 2, Treatment Observation Data, contains data collected from
observations of treatment sessions at each site from May through July
2001. Part 3, Staff Survey Data, provides data obtained through surveys
of 54 treatment service staff members.

Tags: courts, drug-offenders, drug-treatment, recidivism, treatment-programs
Organization: Department of Justice
Nature and Correlates of Domestic Violence Among Female Arrestees in San Diego, California, 2000-2001

This study sought to examine the incidence and prevalence
 of domestic violence among female arrestees. The data for this
 research were collected in conjunction with the National Institute of
 Justice's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) programs. Female
 arrestees in San Diego, California, who had completed the ADAM
 interview and provided a urine specimen were asked if they would be
 willing to answer an additional set of questions concerning their
 experience with domestic violence. Respondents were asked a series of
 questions about the types of abuse they experienced and a host of
 supplemental questions detailing the abusive incidents they
experienced in their lifetime and in the last 12 months.

Tags: adam-duf-program, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse, female-offenders, sexual-abuse, substance-abuse, victimization, victims, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Immigration on Ethnic-Specific Violence in Miami, Florida, 1997

Does the rate of violent victimization differ across race
 and ethnic groups? In an effort to answer this question, this study
 sought to examine the violent victimization rate and the factors
 influencing ethnic-specific rates of violence in the city of
 Miami. Administrative data were obtained from the United States Bureau
 of the Census and the Miami Police Department Research Unit. For the
 groups of people identified as Afro Americans, Latinos, and Haitians,
 the numbers who were victims of aggravated assault and robbery in 1997
 are included along with the assault and robbery rates for each
 group. The remaining variables are the percent of female-headed
 households, percent below poverty line, percent of young males out of
 the labor force and unemployed, residential instability, vacant and
household instability, and the percent of 1980-1990 immigrants.

Tags: aggravated-assault, census-tract-level, crime-rates, ethnicity, immigration, race, robbery, victimization, violent-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of Multi-Jurisdictional Task Forces in the United States, 1999-2000

Since the inception of the Edward Byrne Memorial State and
Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program in 1988, a large proportion of
formula grant program funds has been allocated by state administrative
agencies (SAA) to support multi-jurisdictional drug task forces (MJTFs).
MJTFs are a subset of law enforcement task forces that were created in
order to target the illegal distribution of drugs at the local and
regional levels. While many policymakers, researchers, and practitioners
express confidence in the task force approach generally, there remains
insufficient understanding of the possible community and organizational
impact of individual MJTFs and the kinds of evaluation methodologies
that can elicit such information. The goal of this project was to
identify several methodologies that could be used by state planning
agencies, task forces, and others to assess the work of MJTFs. This
project consisted of two surveys that were designed to ascertain the
extent to which state administrative agencies (SAAs) and
multi-jurisdictional drug task forces (MJTFs) collected various kinds of
process and outcome information and conducted evaluations of task
forces.

Tags: criminal-justice-programs, drug-law-enforcement, grants, law-enforcement, program-evaluation
Organization: Department of Justice
Outcome Evaluation of the Crossroad to Freedom House and Peer I Therapeutic Communities in Colorado, 2000-2002

This study aimed to further evaluate previous findings
regarding drug use and criminal behaviors among the criminal
population by investigating the effectiveness of two Colorado
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Therapeutic Communities (RSAT
TC) for offenders. The first, the Crossroad to Freedom House
Therapeutic Community at the Arrowhead Correctional Center (ACC TC)
was a prison-based program. The second was the community-based Peer I
Therapeutic Community (Peer I). Two methodologies were used to gather
data. Part 1, RSAT Outcome Data, contains quantitative data collected
from five separate study groups of differing sample sizes that
received differing levels of treatment, with a total of 778 cases. The
groups were compared on five separate outcome variables: technical
violation, new misdemeanor arrest, new felony arrest, return to
prison, and overall supervision failure. To gather baseline
information from participants, a researcher administered the intake
packet in group format to participants within three weeks of admission
to ACC TC. After completing the treatment programs, outcome data were
collected for a two-year follow-up period for each participant. Part
2, Case Studies, consists of case studies of ten participants, two
from each of the above five listed groups. One from each group had
successful outcomes, and one did not. Successful outcomes were defined
as participants who were still living in the community after 12 to 18
months without any new charges. Unsuccessful outcomes were defined as
those participants who were returned to prison for technical
violations or new charges and were eligible for study only if they had
been living in the community for six to twelve months before returning
to prison. Information for the case studies were gathered through
interviews with both former prisoners and one of their significant
others. Variables for Part 1 include demographic information, length
of stay in both the ACC TC and Peer I, types of programs parolees were
released to, and time period between leaving the Department of
Corrections and any subsequent returns. Information was also gathered
on the presence of psychological concerns as an adult, as well as in
childhood. Part 2 consists of information regarding ACC TC and Peer I
participants' post-treatment such as their employment status,
financial well-being, significant relationships, relapse information
and whether or not the interviewee has returned to the Department of
Corrections since receiving treatment and being released.

Tags: alcohol-abuse, drug-abuse, inmate-programs, recidivism, substance-abuse-treatment, treatment-outcome, treatment-programs
Organization: Department of Justice
Public Opinion on the Courts in the United States, 2000

This study centered on two questions fundamental to
understanding public opinion about the courts: (1) Do African
Americans, Latinos, and Whites view the state courts differently? and
(2) What impact did recent direct court experience have on people's
opinions about state courts? Between March 22, 2000, and May 3, 2000,
interviewers conducted 1,567 telephone interviews with randomly
selected United States residents. Variables include respondents'
gender, race, age, education, and other demographic information,
respondents' perception of the fairness of local courts, including
whether African Americans and Latinos were discriminated against,
whether the respondent or a member of the respondent's household had
been involved with the courts in the past 12 months, and if so, how
fairly that case was conducted.

Tags: african-americans, court-system, courts, ethnicity, hispanic-or-latino-americans, media-influence, perceptions, public-opinion, racial-discrimination, state-courts, white-americans
Organization: Department of Justice
National Evaluation of the National Institute of Justice Grants to Combat Violent Crimes Against Women on Campus Program, 2000-2002

This study was undertaken as a process evaluation of the
 Grants to Combat Violence Against Women on Campus Program (Campus
 Program), which was conducted by the Institute for Law and Justice
 under a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and funding
 from the Violence Against Women Office (VAWO). The Campus Program was
 comprised of 38 colleges or universities, which received funding in
 1999 and 2000. Part 1 data consist of basic demographic information
 about each campus and the violence against women programs and services
 available at each site. Data for Part 2, collected from
 questionnaires administered to grant project staff, documented
 perceptions about the Campus Program project and participation and
 collaboration from those involved in the partnership with each college
 or university (i.e., non-profit, non-governmental victim service
providers).

Tags: campus-crime, crime-reduction, crime-reporting, police-training, process-evaluation, victim-safety, victim-services, violence, violence-against-women, women
Organization: Department of Justice
Violence Against Women and the Role of Welfare Reform in Stanislaus and Kern Counties, California, 1999-2002

This study investigated the relationship between domestic
 violence and welfare reform. Two specific goals were (1) to determine
 the impact of domestic violence on welfare tenure and employment over
 a three-year period, and (2) to examine the well-being of children of
 female welfare recipients who experienced domestic violence. In
 addition, the study examined issues related to mental health problems
 and alcohol and drug problems, both of which are associated with
 domestic violence. This study was based on three rounds of interviews
 with a random sample of welfare recipients in Kern and Stanislaus
 Counties, California, between April 1999 and December 2002. Although
 the interview instrument was slightly altered for each round, the
 questions in all three rounds focused on employment history, health,
 mental health, domestic violence victimization, children's well-being,
and alcohol and drug use.

Tags: alcohol-abuse, child-welfare, domestic-violence, drug-abuse, mental-health, welfare-reform
Organization: Department of Justice
Effects of Arrests and Incarceration on Informal Social Control in Baltimore, Maryland, Neighborhoods, 1980-1994

This study examined the effects of police arrest policies
and incarceration policies on communities in 30 neighborhoods in
Baltimore. Specifically, the study addressed the question of whether
aggressive arrest and incarceration policies negatively impacted
social organization and thereby reduced the willingness of area
residents to engage in informal social control, or collective efficacy.
CRIME CHANGES IN BALTIMORE, 1970-1994 (ICPSR 2352) provided aggregate
community-level data on demographics, socioeconomic attributes, and
crime rates as well as data from interviews with residents about
community attachment, cohesiveness, participation, satisfaction, and
experiences with crime and self-protection. Incident-level offense
and arrest data for 1987 and 1992 were obtained from the Baltimore
Police Department. The Maryland Department of Public Safety and
Corrections provided data on all of the admissions to and releases
from prisons in neighborhoods in Baltimore City and Baltimore County
for 1987, 1992, and 1994.

Tags: arrests, communities, community-involvement, crime-rates, imprisonment, informal-social-control, law-enforcement, neighborhoods, police, residents, social-control, social-environment
Organization: Department of Justice
National Evaluation of the Arrest Policies Program Under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 1996-2000

This study was undertaken to evaluate the impact of the
 Arrest Policies Program, funded by the Violence Against Women Office
 (VAWO), on criminal justice system changes and offender accountability,
 and victim safety and well-being. Through convenience sampling, six
 project sites were chosen to participate in the study. Part 1, Case
 Tracking Data, contains quantitative data collected from criminal
 justice agencies on arrests, prosecution filings, criminal case
 disposition, convictions, and sentences imposed for intimate partner
 violence cases involving a male offender and female offender. Data for
 Part 2, Victim Interview Data, were collected from in-depth personal
 interviews with domestic violence victims/survivors (1) to learn more
 about victim experiences with and perceptions of the criminal justice
 response, and (2) to obtain victim perceptions about how the arrest
 and/or prosecution of their batterers affected their safety and
 well-being. The survey instrument covered a wide range of topics
 including severity and history of domestic violence, social support
 networks, perceptions of police response, satisfaction with the
 criminal justice process and the sentence, experiences in court, and
 satisfaction with prosecutors, victim services provider advocates, and
probation officers.

Tags: arrests, case-processing, convictions-law, criminal-justice-system, disposition-legal, domestic-violence, offenders, police-response, probation-officers, process-evaluation, prosecution, social-support, victim-safety, victim-services, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Alcohol or Drug Use and Incarceration on Child Care in Santa Clara County, California, 2003

This pilot study was conducted in an attempt to better
 understand the jailed population in terms of the number of families at
 risk and the relationship between parental substance use and
 incarceration and its impact on the children of the incarcerated. The
 aim of the study was to describe the jailed population, their needs in
 relation to substance abuse and parenting issues, to explore
 children's risk factors resulting from having a parent with substance
 abuse and/or criminal justice involvement, and ultimately to offer a
 point of intervention for parents and children at risk. Participants
 included 229 men and 52 women aged 18 and older, who were in their
 first 48 hours of incarceration in the Santa Clara County Department
 of Corrections in August 2003 and who where voluntary participants in
 the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Arrestee Drug Abuse
 Monitoring (ADAM) Program (ARRESTEE DRUG ABUSE MONITORING (ADAM)
 PROGRAM IN THE UNITED STATES, 2003 [ICPSR 4020]). Male subjects were
 chosen through a random selection process, while female participants
 were taken from a convenience sample. The pilot study used a
 questionnaire completed as an addendum to the ADAM program main
 interview. Major types of variables included in this study are type
 and duration of alcohol/drug use, family history of incarceration,
 number and ages of children for whom the respondent was the primary
 caregiver, social consequences for the child due to the incarceration
 of the respondent, and if the child had any problems with drugs and/or
alcohol.

Tags: adam-duf-program, alcohol-abuse, child-development, drug-use, inmate-populations, parental-influence
Organization: Department of Justice
Revictimization and Victim Satisfaction in Domestic Violence Cases Processed in the Quincy, Massachusetts, District Court, 1995-1997

This study sought to examine (1) the occurrence of
 revictimization, (2) the impact of case processing in Quincy District
 Court (QDC) on the disclosure of revictimization, and (3) victim
 satisfaction with various components of the criminal justice
 system. This study was undertaken as part of a secondary analysis of
 data originally collected for a National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
 sponsored evaluation of a "model" domestic violence program located in
 Quincy, Massachusetts (RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE QUINCY,
 MASSACHUSETTS, DISTRICT COURT, 1995-1997 [ICPSR 3076]). Administrative
 records data were collected from the Quincy District Court's
 Department of Probation, two batterer treatment programs servicing
 offenders, and police incident reports, as well as survey data
 administered to victims. Included are criminal history data, records
 of civil restraining orders, probation department data on
 prosecutorial charges, case disposition and risk assessment
 information, data on offender treatment program participation, police
 incident reports, and self-report victim survey data. These data were
 collected with three primary goals: (1) to obtain the victim's point
 of view about what she wanted from the criminal justice system, and
 how the criminal justice system responded to the domestic violence
 incident in which she was involved, (2) to get details about the study
 incidents and the context of the victim-offender relationship that are
 not typically available in official statistics, and (3) to hear
directly from victims about the defendant's reoffending behavior.

Tags: case-processing, court-cases, courts, domestic-violence, offenders, police-response, treatment-programs, victim-services, victimization, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Community Policing Training and Program Implementation on Police Personnel in Arizona, 1995-1998

This study examined the impact on police trainees of the
 Phoenix Regional Training Academy's curriculum. The academy's basic
 training program integrates community policing and problem-oriented
 policing across the curriculum. A multiple-treatment single-case
 design was used to study 446 police recruits from 14 successive
 academy classes that began basic training classes between December
 1995 and October 1996. The Police Personnel Survey, adapted from
 Rosenbaum, Yeh, and Wilkinson (1994), Skogan (1994, 1995), and Wycoff
 and Skogan (1993), was administered to officers in the study on four
 separate occasions. This instrument was designed to take repeated
 measures of police officer attitudes and beliefs related to various
 dimensions of the job, including job satisfaction, community policing,
 problem-solving policing, traditional policing, the role of the
police, relations with the community, and multicultural sensitivity.

Tags: community-policing, police-community-relations, police-recruits, police-training
Organization: Department of Justice
Delinquency in a Birth Cohort in Wuchang District, Wuhan, China, 1973-2000

This study was designed by American criminologist Marvin
Wolfgang as a replication of his DELINQUENCY IN A BIRTH COHORT studies
conducted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ICPSR 7729 and ICPSR 9293).
The focus of the study is a cohort of all persons born in 1973 in the
Wuchang District of the city of Wuhan. This district was selected
because it was a populous commercial and residential area. The cohort
birth year was chosen to reflect the impact of major economic and
social changes in China. Data include interviews with all known
criminal offenders as of 1990 and with a matched comparison
sample. Additional residential, demographic, and updated criminal
history data as of 2000 were collected on all persons born in the
1973 Wuchang District cohort.

Tags: crime, delinquent-behavior, economic-change, offenders, social-change
Organization: Department of Justice
Non-Fatal Workplace Violence in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1996-1997

This project investigated non-fatal workplace violence in
 Lincoln, Nebraska, over an 18-month period. Workplace violence was
 defined as any behavior by an individual that was intended to harm
 workers of an organization, including all instances of physical and
 verbal aggression and violence. The principal investigator coded all
 cases of non-fatal workplace violence reported to the Lincoln Police
 Department during the study period with regard to 17 factors,
 including the type of workplace violence, the intimacy level of the
 perpetrator (boyfriend/husband, ex-boyfriend/husband), whether a
 weapon was mentioned, whether threats had been made, and the intensity
 level of violence. The goals of this project were (1) to present
 epidemiological information concerning non-fatal workplace violence,
 (2) to address the different types of workplace violence and
 differences across those types, and (3) to analyze risk factors
associated with higher and lower intensity violence.

Tags: aggression, hostility, interpersonal-conflict, job-stress, occupational-safety-and-health, physical-assault, threats, violence, weapons-offenses, workplace-violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Outcome Evaluation of a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program in Dallas County, Texas, 1998-2000

This study was an outcome evaluation of the Dallas County
Judicial Treatment Center (DCJTC), a six-month residential substance
abuse treatment (RSAT) facility in Dallas County, Texas. The primary
goal of this evaluation was to assess offender recidivism following
treatment in this six-month community-based modified therapeutic
community for probationers. Secondary goals were to examine change in
social functioning over time among probationers mandated to this
program, to determine which characteristics at intake and which
during-treatment social functioning indicators were predictive of
dropping out of treatment early, and to identify which indicators
predicted being arrested one to two years after treatment. These goals
were accomplished by a comparison of outcomes between treated
probationers and an untreated comparison group and by an assessment
of the relationships among treatment, social functioning, and
recidivism. For both treatment and comparison groups, a criminal
records search was performed on the Institutional Division database of
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for all of the study
participants for the two years following discharge for treatment or
following commitment to probation. In addition to these records,
treatment participants were asked to complete a set of data collection
forms over their course of treatment. These forms collected
information about mental status, background and psychosocial
functioning, substance abuse, psychological status, offenders'
perceptions of the program and their experiences in treatment,
evaluations of counselors, self-evaluations, and counselors'
evaluations of clients.

Tags: correctional-facilities, inmate-programs, mental-health, outcome-evaluation, psychological-evaluation, recidivism, recidivism-prediction, residential-programs, self-evaluation, substance-abuse, substance-abuse-treatment, treatment-outcome
Organization: Department of Justice