AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Impact of Legal Representation on Child Custody Decisions among Families with a History of Intimate Partner Violence in King County, Washington, 2000-2010

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they there received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except of the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompany readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collections and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.
The major aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that legal representation of the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victim in child custody decisions leads to greater legal protections being awarded in these decisions compared to similar cases of unrepresented IPV victims. A retrospective cohort study was conducted among King County couples with minor children filing for marriage dissolution in King County, Washington between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2010 who had a history of police or court documented intimate partner violence (IPV).  The study examined the separate effects of private legal representation and legal aid representation relative to propensity score-matched, unrepresented comparison subjects.  Primary study outcomes were measured at the time the first "Final Parenting Plan" was awarded. Researchers also examined the two-year period post-decree among the subset of cases with filing between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2009 for post-decree court proceedings indicative of continued child custody or visitation disputes.

Tags: abuse-allegations, attorney-representation, attorneys, child-abuse, child-custody, child-neglect, child-support, divorce, employment, injuries, intimate-partner-violence, marriage, medical-care, mental-health, parent-child-relationship, parenting-skills
Organization: Department of Justice
Probation and Parole Officers' Outlook on the Proposed GPS Toolkit: Focus Groups on the Potential of Proposed Tools for TRACKS in Oklahoma, 2011

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.The purpose of the Probation/Parole Officer's (PPO) portion of the study was designed to capture work experiences, caseload, and several important issues related to information systems assimilation (i.e., work environment, caseload, technical support, system reliability and consistency, perceived usefulness of information and system, perceived ease of use, attitude toward the current GPS system and the program, intention to use, actual use, access to system, flexibility of the system to adapt to user needs, integration of information into other agency processes, quality of output, comprehensiveness of information provided, format of the system display and output provided, timeliness of obtaining the information, speed of system operation, overall satisfaction with monitoring system, training provided, value added to the officers efforts by the monitoring system, and ease of learning to use the system).The single data file (PPO_survey_data_9182014.sav) contains 102 variables and 55 cases.

Tags: case-load, case-management, computers, criminal-justice-system, focus-groups, gps-monitoring, parole-officers, probation-officers
Organization: Department of Justice
Foreclosure and Crime data for the District of Columbia and Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2003-2011


These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they there received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except of the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompany readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collections and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.


This study was a systematic assessment of the impacts of foreclosures and crime levels on each other, using sophisticated spatial analysis methods, informed by qualitative research on the topic. Using data on foreclosures and crime in District of Columbia and Miami-Dade County, Florida from 2003 to 2011, this study considered the effects of the two phenomena on each other through a dynamic systems approach.


Tags: crime, crime-impact, crime-mapping, crime-patterns, foreclosure, maps, real-estate
Organization: Department of Justice
Forecasting Municipality Crime Counts in the Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Metropolitan Area, 2000-2008

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they there received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except of the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompany readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collections and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.
This study examines municipal crime levels and changes over a nine year time frame, from 2000-2008, in the fifth largest primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the United States, the Philadelphia metropolitan region. Crime levels and crime changes are linked to demographic features of jurisdictions, policing arrangements and coverage levels, and street and public transit network features.

Tags: crime-control-policies, crime-control-programs, crime-mapping, crime-rates, ecology-of-crime, metropolitan, metropolitan-statistical-areas
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of the Agriculture Crime Technology Information and Operation Network (ACTION) in Nine Counties in California, 2004-2005

The Urban Institute and Florida State University multidisciplinary research team employed a multimethod approach to evaluate the Agricultural Crime, Technology, Information, and Operations Network (ACTION) project. The goal of the research was to provide policymakers, practitioners, program developers, and funders with empirically-based information about whether ACTION works. Two paper-and-pencil, self-administered surveys -- one in fall 2004 and the second in fall 2005 -- were sent to samples of farmers in the nine ACTION counties in California. The researchers identified farms using lists provided by Agricultural Commissioners in each county. The survey instruments asked farmers about experiences with agricultural crime victimization during the 12 months prior to the survey.  It also asked questions about characteristics of their farm operations and the activities that they take to prevent agricultural crime. Advance notice of the study was given to farmers through the use of postcards, then surveys were sent to farmers in three waves at one-month intervals, with the second and third waves targeting nonrespondents. The Fall 2004 Agricultural Crime Survey (Part 1) contains data on 823 respondents (farms) and the Fall 2005 Agricultural Crime Survey (Part 2) contains data on 818 respondents (farms).

Tags: agricultural-census, agricultural-policy, agriculture, burglary, crime, crime-control, crime-control-programs, crime-costs, crime-prevention, crime-reduction, crime-reporting, farmers, farming-communities, farms, larceny, law-enforcement, securi, security
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Terrorism on State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies and Criminal Justice Systems in the United States, 2004

This study explored the new roles of state and local law
 enforcement agencies and the changing conditions that came about as a
 result of the events of September 11, 2001. In order to examine the
 impact of terrorism on state and local police agencies, the research
 team developed a survey that was administered to all state police,
 highway patrol agencies, and general-purpose state bureaus of
 investigation and a sample population of 400 local police and sheriff
 agencies in the spring of 2004. The survey asked these state and local
 law enforcement agencies questions concerning how their allocation of
 resources, homeland security responsibilities, and interactions with
other agencies had changed since September 11, 2001.

Tags: government-agencies, homeland-security, law-enforcement-agencies, terrorism, terrorist-threat
Organization: Department of Justice
American Terrorism Study, 1980-2002

This study was conducted in response to a lack of existing
 data collections relating specifically to acts of American
 terrorism. A primary goal of the study was to create an empirical
 database from which criminological theories and governmental policies
 could be effectively evaluated. The American Terrorism Study began in
 1989 when the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Terrorist
 Research and Analytical Center released a list of persons indicted as
 a result of investigation under the FBI's Counterterrorism
 Program. Since that time, FBI has released additional lists to the
 principal investigators. After receiving a list of persons indicted
 in federal criminal court as a result of an official terrorism
 investigation, the researchers reviewed the cases at either the
 federal district court where the cases were tried or at the federal
 regional records center where the cases were archived. The researchers
 divided the dataset into five distinct datasets. Part 1, Counts Data,
 provides data on every count for each indictee in each indictment.
 This is the basic dataset. There were 7,306 counts from 1980 to
 2002. Part 2, Indictees Data, provides data on each of the 574
 indictees from 1980-2002. Part 3, Persons Data, provides data on the
 510 individuals who were indicted by the federal government as a
 result of a terrorism investigation. Part 4, Cases Data, provides one
 line of data for each of the 172 criminal terrorism cases that
 resulted from a federal terrorism investigation. Part 5, Group Data,
 provides one line of case data for each of the 85 groups that were
 tried in federal court for terrorism-related activity. Each of the
 five datasets includes information on approximately 80 variables
 divided into four major categories: (1) demographic information, (2)
 information about the terrorist group to which the individual belongs,
 (3) prosecution and defense data, and (4) count/case outcome and
sentencing data.

Tags: crime-prevention, district-courts, fbi, federal-prisoners, national-security, sentencing, terrorism, terrorist-attacks, terrorist-prosecution, terrorists
Organization: Department of Justice
Supervised and Unsupervised Parental Access in Domestic Violence Cases in New York City, New York, 2002-2005

The purposes of this study were (1) to examine factors associated with New York City Family Courts' visitation decisions and conformity to the provisions of the Model Code of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges when there was a history of abuse of the mother by the father, (2) to compare the different visitation conditions in regard to reabuse -- both psychological and physical, and (3) to examine children's psychological well-being as measured by maternal report on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), given their exposure to abuse.
Two hundred forty-two participants were recruited from the Family Courts and supervised visitation centers in the five counties in New York City. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. There were two interviews with the mother, with an average interval of six months between interviews. Baseline interviews were conducted in person, at the court, or visitation center from 2002 to 2004. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 168 of the participants from 2003 to 2005 and were conducted over the phone, except on the rare occasions when a participant requested an in-person interview.
Information in the the baseline interview included demographic information on the participant as well as on the father of the child(ren), information on the level of physical violence and the children's exposure, how often particular acts of violence took place, threats and coercion, an injury index, information regarding court orders, information regarding custody petitions, information regarding visitation orders, and visitation experience. The follow-up interview asked about abuse since the previous interview and included updates, changes, and modifications to the information provided in the baseline interview.

Tags: battered-women, child-custody, conflict, court-orders, demographic-characteristics, family-courts, injuries, intimate-partner-violence, restraining-orders, threats, violence, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Exploring Women's Histories of Survival of Violence and Victimization in a Midwestern State, 2004-2005

This study explored the histories of physical and sexual
 victimization reported by incarcerated and non-incarcerated women. It
 sought to identify the survival strategies women activated at various
 points in their life span. In Phase One, 424 women were interviewed
 from March 2004 to March 2005 on a variety of topics covering
 victimization and disclosure experiences and risk and protective
 factors. Information from those interviews is contained in Part 1,
 Phase One, Interview Data. In Phase Two, 17 women from the prison
 and/or the community who had participated in the Phase One interviews
 were again interviewed in an effort to provide more depth about their
 experiences of victimization and of the resources, social services,
 and supports they may have received or not, subsequent to the
 victimization(s). Information from these qualitative follow-up
 interviews is contained in Parts 2-18. Variables cover topics such as
 personal attitudes, health and well-being, relationships with family
 and friends, coping with stress, emotional health, alcohol and drug
 use, childhood maltreatment, intimate partner violence, sexual
 experiences, services and resources received, traumatic experiences,
 suicide, resource generating strategies, legal issues, and
demographics.

Tags: abuse, alcohol-consumption, battered-women, child-abuse, coping, demographic-characteristics, domestic-violence, drug-use, emotional-abuse, family-relations, health, income, intimate-partner-violence, legal-history, mental-health, sexual-abuse, sexual-ass
Organization: Department of Justice
Effects of Incarceration on Criminal Trajectories in the United States, 1994

Using data from RECIDIVISM OF PRISONERS RELEASED IN 1994:
[UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 3355), this study developed an analytical
approach to utilize detailed dated criminal arrest history information
in order to investigate whether, and to what extent, incarceration is
able to deter offenders from future offending. This data collection
consists of the syntax for a SAS macro used to estimate individual
specific offending micro-trajectories, project counterfactual
trajectories, and to assess the actual post-release offending patterns
against the backdrop of these counterfactuals. The arrest records of
individuals were clustered in chronological order and were truncated
after the first post-release re-arrest event. The key independent
variables used in estimating the pre-release criminal history
accumulation process included the arrest number, the age at first
arrest, whether or not the individual was confined as a result of the
previous arrest event, and a measure of the number of years taken to
reach each arrest event cumulated through the last arrest event. The
same set of basic variables were used to model first re-arrest after
release (recidivism).

Tags: arrest-records, conviction-records, criminal-histories, recidivism
Organization: Department of Justice
Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Arrestees in Sacramento, California, 1999

This study served as the pilot study for the domestic violence addendum to the National Institute of Justice's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program. The domestic violence addendum was administered during the third (Part 1) and fourth (Part 2) quarters of 1999 in Sacramento, California, to all arrestees who completed the ADAM interview, provided a urine specimen, and agreed to answer additional questions about domestic violence. The addendum was based on the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (Staus and Gelles, 1986) and sought to examine the issue of being the victim and/or perpetrator of domestic violence, age of onset of domestic violence, and injuries from domestic violence. The data also include demographic variables, arrest and charge variables, and alcohol and drug use variables.

Tags: adam-duf-program, alcohol-abuse, arrests, domestic-violence, drug-use, offenders, substance-abuse, urinalysis
Organization: Department of Justice
National Evaluation of the LEAA Family Violence Demonstration Program in Five Sites in the United States, 1980-1981

This study focused on the actuarial and situational
 correlates of domestic violence and the variables that differentiate
 those who batter their partners from those who are "generally"
 violent. The study defined violence as physical violence and excluded
 both psychological abuse and verbal threats. Domestic violence was
 defined as a man battering his spouse or partner, while extradomestic
 violence referred to the batterer's involvement in violence outside
 the home, as reported by the victim of the domestic incident. The data
 are victim reports concerning batterers collected through face-to-face
 interviews with 270 former clients of Law Enforcement Assistance
 Administration (LEAA)-funded family violence programs conducted
 approximately three months following final contact with the program.
 The data include demographic variables on both the LEAA-funded program
 client and her partner, variables detailing the partner's domestic and
 extradomestic violence, and variables on any services received by the
client.

Tags: abuse, assault, battered-women, domestic-assault, domestic-relations, domestic-violence, family-relations, intimate-partner-violence, spouse-abuse, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Development and Validation of a Coercive Control Measure for Intimate Partner Violence in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, DC, 2004

The overall goals of this project were to develop a clear theoretical understanding of coercive control and to develop a measure of "nonviolent coercive control" for use in the measurement of intimate partner violence (IPV). The psychometric properties of the newly developed coercive control measure were assessed between February and September 2004 in a total sample of 757 that included 302 males and 448 females from the metropolitan Washington, DC, and Boston areas. Of this sample, 139 reporting IPV victimization only, 39 reported IPV perpetration only, 245 reported both IPV victimization and perpetration, and 334 reported neither IPV victimization nor perpetration. Respondents were recruited from community agencies involving identified IPV victims and perpetrators, agencies providing non-IPV services to demographically similar participants, community college settings, and general public community settings, e.g., fast food restaurants. The sample was a convenience, not a representative, sample. Selection criteria included the following: (1) involvement in an intimate partner relationship within the past 12 months, and (2) being 18 years of age or older. Respondents were excluded if they exhibited signs of intoxication or other indications of a lack of coherence sufficient to complete the survey. Both data files contain demographic information. Respondents were asked several series of questions including those pertaining to demands received from their partner, whether their partner did anything to find out if the respondent had done what the partner had demanded, if their partner made them feel the partner might do something if the respondent did not do what the partner wanted, and whether they had done certain things when their partner demanded something. Respondents were then asked the same series of questions conversely. Respondents were read a statement and asked how often they felt this way in the past month, asked whether in the last 12 months they had experienced certain physical abuse or abused their partner physically, and they were asked whether in the last 12 months they had experienced certain types of emotional abuse or had abused their partner emotionally. Respondents were read a series of statements regarding their relationships with people in general and asked to tell whether the statement was true or false, asked how often they had experienced problems in response to a trauma, and asked how likely their partner might attempt to abuse the respondent in specific ways in the next year.

Tags: abuse, demographic-characteristics, emotional-abuse, emotional-states, intimate-partner-violence, sexual-abuse, spouse-abuse, victimization, violence, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Ethno-Methodological Study of the Subculture of Prison Inmate Sexuality in the United States, 2004-2005

This study of prison rapes used an ethnographic, culturally
 relativistic methodology and was conducted between April 2004 and
 September 2005. The study was conducted in 30 correctional
 institutions, 23 men's and 7 women's, in 10 states. All 23 men's
 institutions were the highest-security level men's prison available in
 each state. When women's institutions were multi-security level and
 housed minimum, medium, and high-security inmates, they were selected
 from the highest-security level housing units within the institution.
 A total of 564 (409 male and 155 female) inmates were interviewed. The
 inmates to be interviewed were selected from the general prison
 population using a probability sample design. Average interview length
 was just under an hour. The sole mode of data collection was an
 open-ended, semistructured inmate interview. To ensure comparability
 of answers, surveys were designed with each query resting on a
 particular concept or variable. The same interview instrument was used
 for both male and female inmates. Questions were asked about inmate
 prison history, mental health, rape, social process, domestic violence
 and relationships, staff, institutional factors, and perception of
 social roles, and demographic information. Also included are lexical
 responses and free list questions such as "Why do inmates have sex
with other inmates?"

Tags: correctional-facilities, correctional-guards, female-inmates, inmate-attitudes, inmate-populations, inmates, male-inmates, perceptions, prison-conditions, prison-security, prison-violence, sexual-assault, sexual-attitudes
Organization: Department of Justice
Geographies of Urban Crime in Nashville, Tennessee, Portland, Oregon, and Tucson, Arizona, 1998-2002

This research involved the exploration of how the
geographies of different crimes intersect with the geographies of
social, economic, and demographic characteristics in Nashville,
Tennessee, Portland, Oregon, and Tucson, Arizona. Violent crime data
were collected from all three cities for the years 1998 through
2002. The data were geo-coded and then aggregated to block groups and
census tracts. The data include variables on 28 different crimes,
numerous demographic variables taken from the 2000 Census, and several
land use variables.

Tags: assault, census-tract-level, crime-mapping, geographic-information-systems, homicide, larceny, neighborhoods
Organization: Department of Justice