AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Youth Under 18 Years Old in Adult Prisons in the United States, 1997

This survey of departments of corrections in the United
States was undertaken to provide correctional staff with design,
implementation, and management strategies to meet the needs of
prisoners under the age of 18. The study examined what happens when
individuals under age 18 are placed in adult correctional facilities,
and explored the ways in which departments of corrections are
attempting to deal with the growing population of youthful
inmates. The following three objectives were the focus of this study:
(1) to describe the number of incarcerated youths (at time of
admission) being held in the nation's prison system, (2) to examine
the different methods being used to house inmates under 18 years old,
and (3) to explore different management approaches used with youthful
inmates in terms of the size of the prison system and the area of the
country in which they were located. For this study, respondents in 51
departments of corrections (50 states and the District of Columbia)
were contacted by telephone regarding survey questions that were
mailed prior to the phone interviews. The survey contained five
questions concerning current practices for handling offenders under
the age of 18 who had been placed in adult correctional
institutions. Data were collected on the method used to house
underaged inmates and the size of each system's population of inmates
under 18 years old. Subsequently, the method and size data were
combined to form categories describing four management approaches for
dealing with offenders under the age of 18 in adult prisons: (1)
separated/big, (2) separated/little, (3) integrated/big, and (4)
integrated/little. Demographic variables include the population size
and region (Northeast, South, Midwest, or West) of each jurisdiction,
as well as the number and proportion of offenders under 18 years old
within each state. Also present in the file is the location and name
of the facility with the largest under-18 population in each
jurisdiction.

Tags: correctional-facilities-adults, corrections-management, imprisonment, juvenile-inmates
Organization: Department of Justice
Prosecution and Defense Strategies in Domestic Violence Felonies in Iowa, 1989-1995

This study consisted of an in-depth analysis of the trial
strategies used by the prosecution and the defense in domestic
violence-related felony cases. The research objectives of this study
were (1) to catalog the evidentiary constraints in domestic
violence-related cases -- specifically, the types of character
evidence and prior acts of defendants allowed during trial, (2) to
show how the prosecution presented its case in domestic violence
trials by identifying the key prosecution themes and strategies, (3)
to present the specific evidence used by the prosecution to prove the
elements of a case, and (4) to describe the themes and strategies used
by the defense to counter the prosecution's case. Researchers focused
on the admission of evidence of other acts of violence, known as
"context" evidence, which characterized the violent relationship
between the defendant and victim. The design involved a qualitative
analysis of felony trial transcripts in Iowa from 1989 to 1995, in
which the defendant and victim were involved in a domestic
relationship. Part 1, Coded Transcript Data, contains the coded themes
from the text analysis program. Background information was gathered on
the length and type of relationship at the time of the incident, and
the substance abuse and criminal histories of the defendant and the
victim. Incident variables include current case charges, type of
trial, description of physical injuries, whether hospitalization was
required, type of weapon used, and whether the defendant or the victim
owned a firearm. Other variables describe prosecution and defense
strategies regarding evidence, identity, credibility, the nature of
the relationship between the defendant and the victim, the intentions
of the defendant, and how the police handled the case. Demographic
variables include the race of the defendant and the ages of the
defendant and the victim. Parts 2-40 consist of the actual court
transcripts.

Tags: case-processing, courts, criminal-histories, defendants, domestic-violence, evidence, felony-offenses, prosecution, trial-procedures, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluating Recidivism Among Drug Offenders in Florida's Residential and Non-Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, 1991-1997

This study was undertaken to investigate the relationship,
 if any, between drug treatment and success or failure of drug-involved
 offenders on probation/community supervision. Further, the researchers
 sought to evaluate the outcomes of drug-involved offenders admitted to
 (1) secure residential substance abuse treatment (RSAT) programs, (2)
 non-secure residential drug treatment programs, (3) non-residential
 drug treatment programs, and (4) no drug treatment programs. Data were
 collected from administrative records provided by the Florida
 Department of Corrections, specifically case history records of
 offenders admitted to supervision in the community from July 1, 1991,
 through June 30, 1997. Part 1 is comprised of all cases admitted to
 community supervision between July 1, 1991, and June 30, 1993 (fiscal
 years 1991 and 1992) and treated in a secure residential drug treatment
 program. Part 2 is comprised of all cases admitted to community
 supervision from July 1, 1991, through June 30, 1995, receiving
 treatment in a non-secure residential drug treatment program. Part 3
 contains data on offenders admitted to non-residential drug treatment
 programs, whose community supervision admissions were between July 1,
 1991, and June 30, 1993. Part 4 contains data on offenders admitted to
 non-residential drug treatment programs, whose community supervision
 admissions were between July 1, 1993, and June 30, 1995 (fiscal years
 1993 and 1994). Part 5 contains data on cases admitted to community
 supervision between July 1, 1991, and June 30, 1993, who did not
 receive drug treatment of any kind. Cases admitted to community
 supervision between July 1, 1993, and June 20, 1995, receiving no drug
 treatment are contained in Part 6. Each supervision admission record
 contains a history of subsequent court actions that were complete
 through December 31, 1997. Variables for all parts include population
 estimates, unemployment rates, population by age-specific categories,
 violent and nonviolent index offenses, per capita personal income,
 clearance rates, split sentence flag, primary offense disposition,
 primary offense felony level, current commitment years supervised,
 supervision type, whether current offense included a drug charge,
 number of prior supervision terms, number of prior commitments,
 reasons for failure, treatment facility code, number of drug
 sale/traffic offenses, outcome of supervision period, and reasons for
prison intake. Demographic variables include race and gender.

Tags: diversion-programs, drug-offender-profiles, drug-offenders, drug-treatment, intervention, offenders, probation, recidivism, substance-abuse-treatment, treatment-programs
Organization: Department of Justice
Street-Level View of Community Policing in the United States, 1995

This study sought to examine community policing from a
street-level officer's point of view. Active community police officers
and sheriff's deputies from law enforcement agencies were interviewed
about their opinions, experiences with, and attitudes toward community
policing. For the study 90 rank-and-file community policing officers
from 30 law enforcement agencies throughout the United States were
selected to participate in a 40- to 60-minute telephone
interview. The survey was comprised of six sections, providing
information on: (1) demographics, including the race, gender, age, job
title, highest level of education, and union membership of each
respondent, (2) a description of the community policing program and
daily tasks, with questions regarding the size of the neighborhood in
terms of geography and population, work with citizens and community
leaders, patrol methods, activities with youth/juveniles, traditional
police duties, and agency and supervisor support of community
policing, (3) interaction between community policing and non-community
policing officers, (4) hours, safety, and job satisfaction, (5) police
training, and (6) perceived effectiveness of community policing.

Tags: attitudes, community-policing, neighborhoods, police-citizen-interactions, police-community-relations, police-officers, police-patrol
Organization: Department of Justice
Prevalence of Five Gang Structures in 201 Cities in the United States, 1992 and 1995

The goal of this study was to provide useful data on how
 street gang crime patterns (by amount and type of offense) relate to
 common patterns of street gang structure, thus providing focused,
 data-based guidelines for gang control and intervention. The data
 collection consists of two components: (1) descriptions of cities'
 gang activities taken from an earlier study of gang migration in 1992,
 IMPACT OF GANG MIGRATION: EFFECTIVE RESPONSES BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
 AGENCIES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1992 (ICPSR 2570), and (2) gang
 structure data from 1995 interviews with police agencies in a sample
 of the same cities that responded to the 1992 survey. Information
 taken from the 1992 study includes the year of gang emergence in the
 city, numbers of active gangs and gang members, ethnic distribution of
 gang members, numbers of gang homicides and "drive-bys" in 1991, state
 in which the city is located, and population of the city. Information
 from the 1995 gang structures survey provides detail on the ethnic
 distributions of gangs, whether a predominant gang structure was
 present, each gang structure's typical size, and the total number of
 each of the five gang structures identified by the principal
 investigators -- chronic traditional, emergent traditional, emergent
 integrated, expanded integrated, and specialty integrated. City crime
 information was collected on the spread of arrests, number of serious
 arrests, volume and specialization of crime, arrest profile codes and
 history, uniform crime rate compared to city population, ratio of
 serious arrests to total arrests, and ratio of arrests to city
population.

Tags: cities, crime-patterns, drive-by-shootings, gang-members, gang-migration, gang-violence, gangs, homicide, intervention, law-enforcement
Organization: Department of Justice
A Multi-Site Assessment of Police Consolidation: California, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, 2014-2015

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.
The study gathered information from police officers and residents of four different community areas that had undergone some form of police consolidation or contracting. The communities were the city of Pontiac in Michigan; the cities of Chisago and Lindstrom in Minnesota; York and Windsor Townships and the boroughs of Felton, Jacobus, Yoe, Red Lion, and Windsor in Pennsylvania; and the city of Compton in California. Surveys were administered to gauge the implementation and effectiveness of three models of police consolidation: merger of agencies, regionalization under which two or more agencies join to provide services in a broader area, and contracting by municipalities with other organizations for police services. 
The collection includes 5 SPSS files:

ComptonFinal_Masked-by-ICPSR.sav (176 cases / 99 variables)
MinnesotaFinal_Masked-by-ICPSR.sav (228 cases / 99 variables)
PontiacFinal_Masked-by-ICPSR.sav (230 cases / 99 variables)
YorkFinal_Masked-by-ICPSR.sav (219 cases / 99 variables)
OfficerWebFINALrecodesaug2015revised_Masked-by-ICPSR.sav (139 cases / 88 variables)


Tags: community-policing, crime-reduction, police-community-relations, police-department-consolidation, police-departments, police-effectiveness, police-performance, police-response
Organization: Department of Justice
Influence of Eyewitness Memory Factors on Plea Bargaining Decisions by Prosecution and Defense Attorneys in California, 2010-2011

The purpose of the study was to assess how the strength of eyewitness evidence affects plea bargaining decisions by prosecutors and defense attorneys. Surveys were administered to 93 defense attorneys and 46 prosecutors from matched counties in California. On the questionnaire, each participant was asked four background questions and read four versions of a crime scenario in which two specific eyewitness factors -- (a) same- versus cross-race identification and (b) prior contact or not -- were experimentally manipulated in a factorial design. The scenarios described a store robbery in which identification by one eyewitness was the only evidence against the defendant. After reading each scenario, attorneys were asked to respond to five questions in light of the facts presented. The study contains 28 variables including background data on the study participants and responses to questions relating to four crime scenarios that differ in terms of the details of the eyewitness evidence.

Tags: attorneys, evidence, eyewitness-memory, identity, legal-representation, plea-negotiations, prosecuting-attorneys, prosecution, public-defenders, suspect-identification, witnesses
Organization: Department of Justice
Policing by Place: A Proposed Multi-level Analysis of the Effectiveness of Risk Terrain Modeling for Allocating Police Resources, 2014-2015 [New York City]

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 a project by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) involving GIS data on environmental risk factors that correlate with criminal behavior. The general goal of this project was to test whether risk terrain modeling (RTM) could accurately and effectively predict different crime types occurring across New York City. The ultimate aim was to build an enforcement prediction model to test strategies for effectiveness before deploying resources. Three separate phases were completed to assess the effectiveness and applicability of RTM to New York City and the NYPD. A total of four boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens), four patrol boroughs (Brooklyn North, Brooklyn South, Queens North, Queens South), and four precincts (24th, 44th, 73rd, 110th) were examined in 6-month time periods between 2014 and 2015. Across each time period, a total of three different crime types were analyzed: street robberies, felony assaults, and shootings.
The study includes three shapefiles relating to New York City Boundaries, four shapefiles relating to criminal offenses, and 40 shapefiles relating to risk factors.

Tags: crime, crime-control, forecasting-models, geographic-information-systems
Organization: Department of Justice
Long-term Impact of a Positive Youth Development Program on Dating Violence Outcomes During the Transition to Adulthood

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 identified risk and protective factors for dating violence (DV) among young adults (ages 18-22) with a history of maltreatment and placement in foster care, and who had enrolled in Fostering Healthy Futures (FHF) during 2002-2009. FHF is a Colorado-based positive youth program for maltreated youth.   This study focused on factors that ameliorated the effects of risk to reduce DV perpetration and victimization in young adulthood. The participants were interviewed at three different points during the FHF time frame. That data provided a basis for determining risk and mediating factors which in turn were compared to the current study's DV outcomes.
The risk and protective factors included:

Mental health
Substance abuse
Social support
Gender Stereotypes
Attitudes about Teen DV
Communication Skills

Perpetration and victimization outcomes were then examined in relation to the risk and protective factors. 
The collection includes 1 SPSS file:
NIJ-2013-VA-CX-0002---2nd-revision---5-17-18.sav (215 cases / 2023 variables).

Tags: dating-violence, domestic-violence, foster-care, offenders, risk-factors, treatment-outcome, victimization, young-adults
Organization: Department of Justice
A Brief Motivational Interview Intervention to Reduce Dating Abuse Perpetration, Boston, Massachusetts, 2014-2017

This study tests a brief intervention designed to reduce adolescent dating abuse (ADA) perpetration in a healthcare setting used primarily by low income, Black, and Hispanic youth. The Project READY (Reducing Aggression in Dating Relationships for Youth) is a theory-driven, empirically supported, brief intervention. READY intercepts youth who utilize an urban emergency department for non-urgent health care (e.g., sprains), provides them with tailored feedback about their relationship behavior, and uses motivational interviewing to move them towards non-violence and respect. READY was designed to avoid victim-blaming and is responsive to the gendered dynamic of ADA. A small feasibility pilot test of READY was completed in 2013 (N=27).
Participants were 173 youth ages 15-19 years old who were patients of an urban pediatric emergency department. Youth who perpetrated at least 1 act of physical or sexual ADA 3 months prior to baseline were eligible. The proposed experimental evaluation of READY used a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design, with 3- and 6-month follow-ups to assess changes in knowledge, attitude and perpetration behavior.
The hypotheses are: (1) Youth who participate in the brief intervention session and telephone booster call will report improved knowledge and attitudes, and less self-reported ADA perpetration up to 6 months post-intervention as compared to youth in the control group; and (2) the cost of providing the intervention will be less than the cost of the violence that occurs in its absence. Mixed effects linear and logistic models were used to analyze longitudinal data.

Tags: abuse, adolescents, aggression, dating-social, intervention, intimate-partner-violence, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
A Case Study of K-12 School Employee Sexual Misconduct: Lessons Learned from Title IX Policy Implementation, United States, 1984-2014

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 was designed to examine how districts that experienced an incident of school employee sexual misconduct in 2014 defined, interpreted, and implemented key elements of Title IX before, during, and after an incident. The study used a qualitative case study design with a purposeful sample of five districts recruited from a database of 459 districts who experienced a case of school employee sexual misconduct in 2014. The study was conducted between January 2016 and September 2017.
Data collected included: 1) various district documents, 2) 41 interviews with primary actors (school employees and county officials directly involved in responding to the incident), 3) 10 focus groups with 51 secondary actors (school employees who were not directly involved with the incident but who might have been indirectly affected by it), and 4) offender, victim and district characteristics. Documents reviewed included written policies and protocols, training materials and handbooks for staff and students, case documents, and other guiding documents as applicable. In interviews and focus groups, participants were asked to discuss their knowledge of district policies and procedures, to describe the dissemination of and any changes to these policies and procedures, and to provide recommendations for improvement. To protect the confidentiality all district and participant identifying information is confidential and has been removed from any reporting.

Tags: convictions-law, crime-reporting, education, education-costs, educational-administrators, educational-policy, school-districts, school-personnel, sex-offender-registration, sex-offenders, sex-offenses, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-exploitation
Organization: Department of Justice
The Dynamic Context of Teen Dating Violence in Adolescent Relationships, Baltimore, Maryland, 2014-2016

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.
Teenage adolescent females residing in Baltimore, Maryland who were involved in a relationship with a history of violence were sought after to participate in this research study. Respondents were interviewed and then followed through daily diary entries for several months. The aim of the research was to understand the context regarding teen dating violence (TDV). Prior research on relationship context has not focused on minority populations; therefore, the focus of this project was urban, predominantly African American females.
The available data in this collection includes three SAS (.sas7bdat) files and a single SAS formats file that contains variable and value label information for all three data files. The three data files are:

final_baseline.sas7bdat (157 cases / 252 variables)
final_partnergrid.sas7bdat (156 cases / 76 variables)
hart_final_sas7bdata (7004 cases / 23 variables)


Tags: adolescents, alcohol-abuse, dating-social, demographic-characteristics, drug-abuse, family-conflict, family-relationships, intimate-partner-violence, mental-health, substance-abuse, victimization, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice