AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
The Prevalence and Nature of Intra-and Inter-group Violence in an Era of Social and Demographic Change, 2000-2014 [UNITED STATES]

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.
This study used the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to explore whether changes in the 2000-2010 decade were associated with changes in the prevalence and nature of violence between and among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. This study also aimed to construct more accessible NIBRS cross-sectional and longitudinal databases containing race/ethnic-specific measures of violent victimization, offending, and arrest. Researchers used NIBRS extract files to examine the influence of recent social changes on violence for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics, and used advanced imputation techniques to account for missing values on race/ethnic variables. Data for this study was also drawn from the National Historical Geographic Information System, the Census Gazetteer, and Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Assaulted (LEOKA).
The collection includes 1 Stata data file with 614 cases and 159 variables and 2 Stata syntax files.

Tags: aggravated-assault, arrest-rates, crime-rates, ethnicity, homicide, offenses, race, rape-statistics, robbery, victimization, violent-crime-statistics
Organization: Department of Justice
Sequencing Terrorists' Precursor Behaviors: A Crime Specific Analysis, United States, 1980-2012

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 the temporal dimensions of terrorists' precursor conduct to determine if these behaviors occurred in a logically sequenced pattern, with a particular focus on the identification of sequenced patterns that varied by group type, group size, and incident type. The study specifically focused on how these pre-incident activities were associated with the successful completion or prevention of terrorist incidents and how they differed between categories of terrorism. Data utilized for this study came from the American Terrorism Study (ATS), a database that includes "officially designated" federal terrorism cases from 1980-October 1, 2016, collected for the National Institute of Justice.
The project focused on three major issues related to terrorists' precursor behaviors:

A subgroup analysis of temporal, crime-specific patterns by group type,
The nature of the planning process, and
Factors associated with the outcomes of terrorist incidents (success or failure). 
The collection contains 2 SPSS data files, Final_Hypothesis_Data_Set.sav (n=550; 16 variables) and Final_Sequencing_Antecedent_Temporal.sav (n=2354; 16 variables), and 1 plain text file, Recode_Syntax.txt.

Tags: al-qaeda, assassinations, assault, behavior-problems, extremism, nationalism, radicalism, security, terrorism, terrorist-attacks, terrorist-profiles, terrorists, violence, weapons, weapons-offenses
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of a Multi-Faceted, U.S. Community-Based, Muslim-Led Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Program, Montgomery County, Maryland, 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.
This study attempted to be the first of its kind to evaluate a U.S. community-based Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Program. Conducted in Montgomery County, Maryland, the evaluation judged the relative effectiveness of various community programs on CVE-relevant outcomes. The collection contains 2 SPSS data files, Archive-ready, survey 1st phase.sav (n=67; 292 variables) and Archive-ready, survey final phase.sav (n=421; 232 variables). The qualitative data are not available as part of this data collection at this time.

Tags: bystander-effect, community-involvement, extremism, terrorist-profiles, violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Armed Criminals in America:  A Survey of Incarcerated Felons, 1983

The data for this study were collected using
self-administered questionnaires given to a nonprobability sample of
incarcerated felons in ten states. Information in the data include
socioeconomic status of the inmate, prior criminal record, drug use,
weapon usage, family history, and demographic information.

Tags: crime, demographic-characteristics, drug-law-offenses, drug-use, families, inmates, justice, socioeconomic-indicators
Organization: Department of Justice
Strengthening Families Program (SFP) Evaluation to Enhance Post-release Adjustment for Reentering Fathers and Improve Child Well-Being, United States, 2012-2015

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 aim of this study was to conduct an experimental outcomes evaluation to examine the impact of adding an evidence-based family strengthening program to reentry services for fathers leaving jail or prison. The program, Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP), was tested to see whether it improved family functioning and child well-being among a vulnerable population of reentering fathers with children ages 10-14. Eighty families were randomly assigned to a control group or to the SFP group.  Differences in key father, child, and caregiver outcomes were assessed. An implementation evaluation was also conducted to provide clarification and understanding of the outcome evaluation results, and an opportunity to replicate and extend practices that work best with reentering fathers.

Tags: family-counseling, fathers, parent-child-relationship, parenting-skills, prisoner-reentry
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Incarceration on Families, 2016, South Carolina

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.

This project utilized three strategies to investigate the impact of incarceration on families. First, a statewide integrated data system was used to examine impacts of incarceration in a novel way, using administrative data from corrections, juvenile justice, mental health, social services, substance use services, healthcare, and education. Second, researchers linked multi-agency data to address specific research questions regarding impact of incarceration on families, including impact of incarceration on family physical and mental health, children's involvement with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, family economic status, and school performance. Third, researchers conducted focus groups and family interviews with 77 inmates and 21 inmate family members sampled from three correctional facilities. Researchers identified qualitative themes regarding impact of incarceration in the lives of inmates and their families.Only data from the focus groups is included in this collection.  The collection includes two SPSS data files: "Inmate_Demographic_Data.sav" with 15 variables and 77 cases and "Family_Demographic_Data.sav" with 19 variables and 21 cases.  The actual focus group interviews with inmates and their family members are not available as part of this collection at this time. Administrative data from the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office was not made available for archiving.  Users interested in obtaining these data should consult the accompanying documentation.

Tags: child-welfare, children, family-relationships, health, inmates, juvenile-justice, mental-health, parents, prison-inmates, school-age-children
Organization: Department of Justice
Non-Medical use of Prescription Drugs: Policy Change, Law Enforcement Activity, and Diversion Tactics, Florida, 2010-2014

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 contains Uniform Crime Report geocoded data obtained from St. Petersburg Police Department, Orlando Police Department, and Miami-Dade Police Department for the years between 2010 and 2014. The three primary goals of this study were:

to determine whether Florida law HB 7095 (signed into law on June 3, 2011) and related legislation reduced the number of pain clinics abusively dispensing opioid prescriptions in the State
to examine the spatial overlap between pain clinic locations and crime incidents
 to assess the logistics of administering the law

The study includes:

3 Excel files: MDPD_Data.xlsx (336,672 cases; 6 variables), OPD_Data.xlsx (160,947 cases; 11 variables), SPPD_Data.xlsx (211,544 cases; 14 variables)
15 GIS Shape files (95 files total)

Data related to respondents' qualitative interviews and the Florida Department of Health are not available as part of this collection. For access to data from the Florida Department of Health, interested researchers should apply directory to the FDOH.

Tags: crime-control-programs, crime-prevention, drug-dispensing, drug-laws, law-enforcement, prescription-drugs, state-regulations
Organization: Department of Justice
Census of Juveniles on Probation, United States, 2012


The purpose of the Census of Juveniles on Probation (CJP) was to collect individual-level data about youth on probation, including their numbers and characteristics. The CJP survey asked respondents to report the total number of juveniles on formal probation within their reporting jurisdiction on the reference date of October 24, 2012.
For each youth on probation, responding agencies were asked to provide the following information: sex, date of birth, race, most serious offense, state and county where most serious offense was committed, and the state and county where the juvenile resided on the census reference date.
This data collection contains the national data.

Tags: age, gender, juvenile-justice, juvenile-offenders, offenses, probation, probationers, race, supervision
Organization: Department of Justice
Risk Assessment and Schemes for Sexual Recidivism: A 25 Year Follow-Up of Convicted Sex Offenders Referred to the Massachusetts Treatment Center, 1959-1984

The aim of the study was to evaluate and to improve the decision-making algorithms that have been generated to assess risk in sexual offenders. More specifically, it was the task of this research project to evaluate the extant actuarials in a sample of sexual offenders on whom long-term follow-up data were available. Researchers attempted to assess the comparative accuracy of the major risk instruments over time and over subsamples, explore their underlying factor structure, examine the accuracy of a new assessment protocol, and explore the potential for generating improved predictive instruments. The sample was drawn from an earlier study in which researchers had followed 599 offenders who had been referred to the Massachusetts Treatment Center (MTC) for evaluation between 1959 and 1984. Of these, 266 (the Bridgewater Treatment [BT] sample) had been committed to MTC as "sexually dangerous" and subsequently released, and 333 (the Bridgewater Observation [BO] sample) had been determined not to be sexually dangerous and returned to finish their sentences.  There were two sources of data for the study. The first source was the offender's MTC clinical and criminal archival records. The second comprised four record sources that were accessed to obtain comprehensive follow-up data.  In this study, researchers coded these records both on modern empirically-derived, mechanical actuarials that have been developed since 1997 for predicting sexual recidivism, and on a new experimental measure. Two coding teams were created. In general Team A was responsible for (a) purifying, redacting, and scanning detailed copies of offenders' files, (b) classifying all BO sample using both the MTC typologies and the DSM-IV Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder categories, and (c) classifying a subset of the BT sample using the DSM-IV Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder categories.  Team B was responsible for coding all actuarials and the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised on all offenders in the study, and for classifying all BT sample using the DSM-IV Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder categories.

Tags: child-abuse, criminal-histories, personality-assessment, rapists, recidivism, risk-assessment, sex-offenders
Organization: Department of Justice
Age and Sex Estimation from the Human Clavicle in the American Population, 1912-1938 and 1986-1998

This study investigated skeletal maturation and gender dimorphism in the human clavicle in the American population. Biological data were collected on two skeletal collections: the William F. McCormick Clavicle Collection and the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection. Size and shape data were collected from computed tomography (CT) scans of the McCormick clavicles. Several automated measurements were taken on 1,413 McCormick clavicles, including three traditional and six non-traditional measurements (Dataset 1). A total of 593 individuals from the William F. McCormick Clavicle Collection (Dataset 2) and 354 individuals from the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection (Dataset 3) were scored for medial clavicular epiphyseal fusion using McKern and Stewart's (1957) five-phase rating system.

Tags: demographic-characteristics, forensic-sciences, gender, physical-characteristics
Organization: Department of Justice
Anticipating and Combating Community Decay and Crime in Washington, DC, and Cleveland, Ohio, 1980-1990

The Urban Institute undertook a comprehensive assessment of
communities approaching decay to provide public officials with
strategies for identifying communities in the early stages of decay
and intervening effectively to prevent continued deterioration and
crime. Although community decline is a dynamic spiral downward in
which the physical condition of the neighborhood, adherence to laws
and conventional behavioral norms, and economic resources worsen, the
question of whether decay fosters or signals increasing risk of crime,
or crime fosters decay (as investors and residents flee as reactions
to crime), or both, is not easily answered. Using specific indicators
to identify future trends, predictor models for Washington, DC, and
Cleveland were prepared, based on data available for each city. The
models were designed to predict whether a census tract should be
identified as at risk for very high crime and were tested using
logistic regression. The classification of a tract as a "very high
crime" tract was based on its crime rate compared to crime rates for
other tracts in the same city. To control for differences in
population and to facilitate cross-tract comparisons, counts of crime
incidents and other events were converted to rates per 1,000
residents. Tracts with less than 100 residents were considered
nonresidential or institutional and were deleted from the analysis.
Washington, DC, variables include rates for arson and drug sales or
possession, percentage of lots zoned for commercial use, percentage of
housing occupied by owners, scale of family poverty, presence of
public housing units for 1980, 1983, and 1988, and rates for
aggravated assaults, auto thefts, burglaries, homicides, rapes, and
robberies for 1980, 1983, 1988, and 1990. Cleveland variables include
rates for auto thefts, burglaries, homicides, rapes, robberies, drug
sales or possession, and delinquency filings in juvenile court, and
scale of family poverty for 1980 through 1989. Rates for aggravated
assaults are provided for 1986 through 1989 and rates for arson are
provided for 1983 through 1988.

Tags: communities, crime-prediction, crime-prevention, crime-rates, intervention-strategies, neighborhood-conditions, urban-decline
Organization: Department of Justice
Firearms, Violence, and Youth in California, Illinois, Louisiana, and New Jersey, 1991

Violence committed by and against juveniles was the focus
 of this study. Two groups were examined: incarcerated (criminally
 active) juveniles and students in inner-city high schools, since these
 youths are popularly considered to engage in and experience violence
 (especially gun-related violence), to belong to urban street gangs,
 and to participate in the drug trafficking thought to lead to
 excessive gun violence. Self-administered questionnaires were
 completed by 835 male inmates in six correctional facilities and 1,663
 male and female students from ten inner-city high schools in
 California, Illinois, Louisiana, and New Jersey. Data collection took
 place during January through April of 1991. To maximize response
 rates, inducements of five dollars were offered to the inmates,
 Spanish-language versions of the questionnaire were provided to
 inmates who preferred them, and personal interviews were conducted
 with inmates whose reading skills were less than sufficient to
 complete the questionnaire on their own. In four schools, principals
 permitted the inducements to be offered to students to participate in
 the study. As with the inmate survey, a Spanish-language version of
 the questionnaire was provided to students who preferred it. The
 questionnaires covered roughly the same core topics for both inmates
 and students. Items included questions on sociodemographic
 characteristics, school experiences, gun ownership, gun use for
 several types of firearms, gun acquisition patterns, gun-carrying
 habits, use of other weapons, gang membership and gang activities,
 self-reported criminal histories, victimization patterns, drug use,
 alcohol use, and attitudes concerning guns, crime, and violence. In
 both questionnaires, the majority of the items covered firearms
 knowledge, acquisition, and use. The remaining items in the inmate
 survey primarily covered criminal behavior and, secondarily,
 victimization histories. In the student survey, these priorities were
reversed.

Tags: drug-traffic, firearms, gangs, gun-ownership, gun-use, high-school-students, inner-city, juvenile-inmates, violence, youths
Organization: Department of Justice
Boston Police Department Domestic Violence Research Project, 1993-1994

The Domestic Violence Research Project was a pilot study
 designed to examine the dynamics of domestic violence within two of
 the ten police districts that comprise the city of Boston. The
 objectives were to collect data on domestic violence in greater detail
 than previously possible, conduct various analyses on this
 information, and determine how the findings could best be used to
 improve the police, prosecutorial, and social service responses to
 domestic violence. Data for 1993 are a stratified random sample of
 reported domestic violence incidents occurring throughout the
 year. The sample represents approximately 27 percent of the domestic
 violence incidents reported in 1993 for the two districts studied, B3
 and D4. The 1994 data include all reported incidents occurring in the
 two districts during the period May to July. After the incident
 selection process was completed, data were collected from police
 incident reports, follow-up investigation reports, criminal history
 reports, and court dockets. Variables include arrest offenses, time of
 incident, location of incident, witnesses (including children), nature
 and extent of injuries, drug and alcohol use, history of similar
 incidents, whether there were restraining orders in effect, and basic
 demographic information on victims and offenders. Criminal history
 information was coded into five distinct categories: (1) violent
 offenses, (2) nonviolent offenses, (3) domestic violence offenses, (4)
drug/alcohol offenses, and (5) firearms offenses.

Tags: arrest-records, criminal-histories, domestic-violence, police-departments, police-response
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of AIDS in Correctional Facilities, 1985-1990, 1992

In late 1985, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) began
its first study of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in
correctional facilities. The objective of the study was to report on
the incidence and institutional management of AIDS within the federal
and state prison systems, as well as in the nation's largest
jails. The study was conducted annually from 1985-1990 and biannually
thereafter. This collection contains data collected in 1985-1990 and
1992 via a mail questionnaire. Questionnaires were sent each year to
the correctional departments of all 50 states, the federal prison
system, and 33 to 37 large city and county jail systems. In addition,
in 1987-1990, Canadian prison systems were surveyed. A different
questionnaire was used in each of the seven years of data collection.
However, each questionnaire addressed the same major topics: inmate
population, numbers of inmate cases of AIDS and AIDS-Related Complex
(ARC), aggregate results of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
antibody testing programs, and major policies regarding AIDS (training
and education, testing, medical and psycho-social services, housing,
precautionary measures, confidentiality), as well as associated legal
and cost issues. The 1992 questionnaire collected additional
information on the prevalence of and policies toward inmates with
tuberculosis.

Tags: aids, correctional-facilities, corrections-management, inmate-populations, policies-and-procedures
Organization: Department of Justice