AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Identification of Risk and Preventive Factors for Elder Financial Exploitation, Los Angeles, 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.

Financial elder exploitation (FE) is an increasing problem for vulnerable elders exploited by opportunists and for the social service and criminal justice system designed to protect them. This study systematically investigated both objective and subjective measures of social support and isolation, along with common risk factors mentioned in FE theories, including dependency, physical health, depression, cognition, and demographic characteristics. Researchers collected data on individual difference variables with an emphasis on cognitive factors and data on contextual factors using an individually administered survey approach. The framework for this project was derived from known factors for FE, predicted protective factors for FE, and conceptual approaches from the child mistreatment literature on risk and resilience.

The study includes 1 SPSS data file with 216 cases and 297 variables.


Tags: cognition, community-participation, education, elder-abuse, financial-management, health, income, interpersonal-communication, living-conditions, social-change, social-contact, social-networks
Organization: Department of Justice
National Study of Private Ownership of Firearms in the United States, 1994

This data collection consists of a survey of private
 ownership of firearms by adults in the United States. Respondents who
 both did and did not own firearms were included. The variables cover
 topics such as the number and type of guns owned privately, methods
 of, and reasons for, firearms acquisition, the storage and carrying of
 guns, the defensive use of firearms against criminal attackers, and
 reasons for and against firearm ownership. Basic demographic
variables include sex, age, education, and employment.

Tags: firearms, gun-ownership, handguns
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of Police Call Management Strategies and Community Policing Activities, 2000

For this study, two different projects with an overlap of
purpose made use of the same data, which were based on a national
sample of 695 police departments. One project conducted background
research for a guidebook on call management for community policing.
The other focused on the use of computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems
in community policing. Survey questions focused on the types of CAD
systems, call management strategies, and community policing activities
employed by each of the departments. Variables include types of CAD
data used, use of different call management strategies, problem
solving measures used, resource allocation measures used, community
involvement/satisfaction measures used, support for special units,
methods used for management accountability, and involvement in
community policing activities.

Tags: community-policing, police-departments, police-records, police-response
Organization: Department of Justice
The Self-Determination and Mental Health of Youth in Residential Placement, United States, 2003

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.
Secondary data analysis was performed on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP), which is the only national survey that gathers data directly from youth in the juvenile justice system. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) designed the survey in 2000 and 2001 to survey offender youth between the ages of 10 and 20. SYRP asks the youth about their backgrounds, offense histories and problems; the facility environment; experiences in the facility; experiences with alcohol and drugs; experiences of victimization in placement; medical needs and services received; and their expectations for the future. 
The collection contains 1 syntax text file (Mplus syntax.txt). No data is included in this collection. 

Tags: abuse, correctional-facilities-juveniles, emotional-problems, expectations, juvenile-offenders, mental-health, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
Criminal Protective Orders as a Critical Strategy to Reduce Domestic Violence, Connecticut, 2012-2016

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. 
Criminal protection orders are a critical tool to enhance the safety and protection of victims of domestic violence (DV). However, limited research exists to elucidate the process and outcomes of these orders. The purposes of the study were to (a) elucidate the process of criminal orders as a critical strategy to reduce domestic violence, (b) increase knowledge about how criminal orders influence the daily lives of women, and children, and how they are associated with offender behavior, (c) disseminate findings to practitioners, policy makers, and academics to inform practice, policy, and future research; and (d) document in detail the relevant accounts of the collaboration to inform best practices for collaborations that lead to better policy, practice, and research. The sample is comprised of 298 female victims of DV by a male, intimate partner. Participants were recruited from two geographical area courthouses in an urban and a suburban New England community. 
Information was collected in personal interviews and augmented with information from court records. Separate data files contain information about housing events as well as substance use. Qualitative data collected as part of this study are not included in this fast track release.
The collection contains 3 SPSS data files, NIJ-PO-Full-Dataset.sav (n=298; 1299 variables), NIJ-PO-Housing-TLFB-Dataset.sav (n=577; 29 variables) and NIJ-PO-Substance-Use-Dataset.sav (n=8940; 24 variables) and 1 Excel data file Living-Together-Data.xlsx (n=298; 3 variables). The collection also contains transcripts of qualitative interviews with 294 of the 298 respondents, which are not included in this release. 

Tags: court-orders, criminal-justice-system, domestic-assault, domestic-violence, intimate-partner-violence, intimate-partners, offender-classification, restraining-orders, victim-safety, womens-rights, womens-shelters
Organization: Department of Justice
Alaska Plea Bargaining Study, 1974-1976

This study examines the characteristics of criminal
offenders as they affect the primary outcomes of their court cases,
particularly plea bargaining decisions. The study was conducted in
Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks, Alaska, over a two-year period from
August 1974 to August 1976. The data were collected from police
booking sheets, public fingerprint files, and court dockets. The unit
of observation is the felony case, i.e., a single felony charge
against a single defendant. Each unit of data contains information
about both the defendant and the charge. The variables include
demographic and social
characteristics of the offender, criminal history of the offender,
nature of the offense, evidence, victim characteristics, and
administrative factors related to the disposition of the case.

Tags: court-cases, felons, felony-offenses, offenders, plea-negotiations
Organization: Department of Justice
Coroner Investigations of Suspicious Elder Deaths; 2008-2011 [California]

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 was a two phase project designed to investigate the decision-making process of the coroner/medical examiner (CME) offices who are charged with investigating suspicious elder deaths and to pilot an intervention that augmented the decision-making process in three CME offices. In phase one, researchers collected case data from CME offices, public data on elder deaths, and interviews with CME investigators. Researchers then developed a brief screening tool, Elder Suspicious Death Field Screen (ESDFS), to be used by CME employees fielding reports of elder deaths. In phase two, the ESDFS was implemented in three counties for a six-month data collection period. An expert panel reviewed a subsample of cases to assess whether CME investigators made appropriate decisions to investigate or not.

Tags: autopsy, coroners, death-records, decision-making, elder-abuse, eldercare, intervention
Organization: Department of Justice
Exploratory Research on the Impact of the Growing Oil Industry in North Dakota and Montana on Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking, 2000-2015

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 used secondary analysis of data from several different sources to examine the impact of increased oil development on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (DVDVSAS) in the Bakken region of Montana and North Dakota. Distributed here are the code used for the secondary analysis data; the data are not available through other public means. Please refer to the User Guide distributed with this study for a list of instructions on how to obtain all other data used in this study.
This collection contains a secondary analysis of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). UCR data serve as periodic nationwide assessments of reported crimes not available elsewhere in the criminal justice system. Each year, participating law enforcement agencies contribute reports to the FBI either directly or through their state reporting programs. Distributed here are the codes used to create the datasets and preform the secondary analysis. Please refer to the User Guide, distributed with this study, for more information.
This collection contains a secondary analysis of the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS), a component part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and an incident-based reporting system for crimes known to the police. For each crime incident coming to the attention of law enforcement, a variety of data were collected about the incident. These data included the nature and types of specific offenses in the incident, characteristics of the victim(s) and offender(s), types and value of property stolen and recovered, and characteristics of persons arrested in connection with a crime incident. NIBRS collects data on each single incident and arrest within 22 offense categories, made up of 46 specific crimes called Group A offenses. In addition, there are 11 Group B offense categories for which only arrest data were reported. NIBRS data on different aspects of crime incidents such as offenses, victims, offenders, arrestees, etc., can be examined as different units of analysis. Distributed here are the codes used to create the datasets and preform the secondary analysis. Please refer to the User Guide, distributed with this study, for more information.
The collection includes 17 SPSS syntax files.
Qualitative data collected for this study are not available as part of the data collection at this time.

Tags: abuse, domestic-violence, oil-production, rape-statistics, sex-offenders, sexual-assault, stalking, uniform-crime-reports, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Predicting Intimate Partner Violence for At-Risk Young Adults and Their Romantic Partners, United States, 1991-2009

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 primary research aims of this study were to: examine a theoretical mediational risk model, examine long-term intervention impacts of the LIFT program on IPV in young adulthood, and to examine proximal associations between youth, partner adjustment (e.g., depressive symptoms), and adulthood. Data was collected over a 15-year period through interview format. Secondary analyses was performed with 323 adults (184 women, 139 men; average age 21 years) and their romantic partners (146 women, 177 men; average age 22 years) who participated in the community-based Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT). Overall the study contains one SPSS file called 'NIJArc_LIFTCO_SubUseIPVItems.sav'. This SPSS file includes 166 variables and 316 cases.

Tags: domestic-assault, domestic-violence, intimate-partner-violence, young-adults
Organization: Department of Justice
Valuation of Specific Crime Rates in the United States, 1980 and 1990

This project was designed to isolate the effects that
individual crimes have on wage rates and housing prices, as gauged by
individuals' and households' decisionmaking preferences changing over
time. Additionally, this project sought to compute a dollar value
that individuals would bear in their wages and housing costs to reduce
the rates of specific crimes. The study used multiple decades of
information obtained from counties across the United States to create
a panel dataset. This approach was designed to compensate for the
problem of collinearity by tracking how housing and occupation choices
within particular locations changed over the decade considering
all amenities or disamenities, including specific crime rates. Census
data were obtained for this project from the Integrated Public Use
Microdata Series (IPUMS) constructed by Ruggles and Sobek
(1997). Crime data were obtained from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). Other data were collected
from the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association, County
and City Data Book, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
and Environmental Protection Agency. Independent variables for the
Wages Data (Part 1) include years of education, school enrollment,
sex, ability to speak English well, race, veteran status, employment
status, and occupation and industry. Independent variables for the
Housing Data (Part 2) include number of bedrooms, number of other
rooms, building age, whether unit was a condominium or detached
single-family house, acreage, and whether the unit had a kitchen,
plumbing, public sewers, and water service. Both files include the
following variables as separating factors: census geographic division,
cost-of-living index, percentage unemployed, percentage vacant
housing, labor force employed in manufacturing, living near a
coastline, living or working in the central city, per capita local
taxes, per capita intergovernmental revenue, per capita property
taxes, population density, and commute time to work. Lastly, the
following variables measured amenities or disamenities: average
precipitation, temperature, windspeed, sunshine, humidity,
teacher-pupil ratio, number of Superfund sites, total suspended
particulate in air, and rates of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated
assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, violent crimes, and property
crimes.

Tags: census-data, crime-rates, crime-reduction, decision-making, households, housing-costs, occupations, wages-and-salaries
Organization: Department of Justice
Classifying Inmates for Strategic Programming in the New York Department of Corrections, 1997-1998

The main goal of this study was to construct and test a
 statistically based system of classifying inmates for one or more
 types of Substance Abuse Intervention Division (SAID) sponsored
 treatment programs within the New York Department of Corrections (DOC)
 system. The sample used for the prediction models was a sample of
 recent jail inmates identified as eligible for admission to SAID. DOC
 provided data from its Inmate Information System (IIS) database on
 each of the cases. Researchers collected two sets of data: one that
 employed only DOC data (Part 1) and another that included
 supplementary data from the Division of Criminal Justice Services
 (DCJS) and the New York City Criminal Justice Agency (CJA) (Part 2).
 The DOC data (Part 1) fall into four main categories: demographic
 characteristics, information on the current case, prior criminal
 record information, and SAID eligibility information. Part 2, DOC and
 Supplementary Data, includes all the DOC items from Part 1 along with
other data collected from DCJS and the New York City CJA.

Tags: inmate-classification, inmate-programs, jail-inmates, prison-inmates, substance-abuse-treatment
Organization: Department of Justice
State Laws and Child Custody Recommendations in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence, 2009-2010 [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 was a secondary analysis of Custody Evaluators' Beliefs about Domestic Abuse Allegations, 2009-2010 [United States] (ICPSR 30962 - https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30962.v1). The purpose of this study was to conduct further analysis of a recent, National Institute of Justice (NIJ) sponsored national survey of professionals to better understand the relationship between family law statutes and professionals' recommendations for child custody and visitation in cases of intimate partner violence. The samples involve 512 child custody evaluators and 200 judges from 46 states. Evaluators and judges responded to a case vignette of serious intimate partner violence (IPV). They indicated recommendations they would make for custody and visitation and the perceived risk of future harm. Evaluators also reported on their history of actual recommendations in IPV cases. The original study investigated beliefs about custody, value-laden beliefs, knowledge professionals had acquired on IPV, the number of survivors they had known, and their work setting, education, and other demographics. In the current study, statutory provisions with sufficient sample sizes of professionals with and without the provisions were used in the analysis.

Tags: abuse, child-custody, child-custody-hearings, divorce, domestic-violence, evaluation, intimate-partner-violence, judicial-decision-making, mediation
Organization: Department of Justice
Community-Level Influences on the Sentencing of Convicted Sex Offenders, Pennsylvania, 2004-2010

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 examined the extent to which contextual factors influenced variation in sex offender sentencing decisions.
By law, Pennsylvania trial courts were required to submit all felony and misdemeanor convictions under the Pennsylvania Sentencing Guidelines to the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing on a yearly basis.
These data were supplemented with county-level data from the American Community Survey, Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts' Annual Caseload Statistics of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania, Associated Religion Data Archives, and Pennsylvania Department of State, Voter Registration Statistics Archives.
The collection contains 1 SPSS data file (Cleaned-Data-2015-R2-CX-0039.sav (n=318048; 31 variables)).
Demographic variables include gender, race, and defendant's age at sentencing.

Tags: children, convictions-law, defendants, disposition-legal, offenses, recidivism, sentencing, sentencing-guidelines, sex-offenders
Organization: Department of Justice
Analysis of Current Cold-Case Investigation Practices and Factors Associated with Successful Outcomes, 2008-2009

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.To assess the current practices in cold-case investigations, this study utilized a national online survey of law enforcement agencies (Cold Case Survey Data, n = 1,051) to document the range of ways in which cold-case work is conducted and assess how this organization affects cold-case clearance rates. In November 2008, the chiefs of police in the sample were sent a letter explaining the purpose of the survey and inviting them to participate. Potential respondents were directed to the web-based survey instrument through a provided web address. The results from the national survey were used to select sites for an analysis of case files. Researchers chose three jurisdictions that conducted a large number of cold-case homicide investigations: the District of Columbia, Baltimore, Maryland, and Dallas, Texas (Cold Case Homicide Data, n = 429). To these three sites, researchers added Denver, Colorado (Cold Case Sexual Assault Data, n = 105) because it had received a Department of Justice grant to conduct testing of DNA material in sexual assault cold cases. At all four sites, cold cases were examined for seven categories of data including victim's characteristics, crime context, motivation, human capital, physical evidence, basis for cold-case investigations and cold-case actions.

Tags: case-management, case-processing, caseloads, homicide, sexual-assault
Organization: Department of Justice