AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Rape Prevention Through Bystander Education at a Northeastern State University, 2002-2004

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness
of a rape prevention program that used a community of responsibility
model to teach women and men how to intervene safely and effectively
in cases of sexual violence before, during, and after incidents with
strangers, acquaintances, or friends. Instead of focusing on women as
potential victims and men as potential perpetrators, the program was
different from other prevention programs in that it approached both
women and men as potential bystanders or witnesses to behaviors
related to sexual violence. Three hundred and eighty-nine
undergraduate students were recruited to participant in the study in
the spring (first wave) and fall (second wave) semesters of 2003 at a
northeastern state university in the United States. Participants were
randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups or a control
group. All first-wave participants filled out pretest questionnaires
(Part 1), post-test questionnaires (Part 2), and questionnaires two
(Part 3) and twelve (Part 4) months following the first post test.
Those in the first wave experimental conditions participated in the
one-session or three-session training program prior to filling out the
post-test questionnaire, and they participated in a booster session
before filling out the questionnaire at the two-month mark.
Second-wave participants experienced similar treatments through the
two-month follow-up questionnaire. After that, they received a
four-month follow-up questionnaire (Part 5) at the same time that the
first-wave participants did their twelve-month follow-up
questionnaire. Numerous demographic variables are included in the
study, along with variables from 15 different scales, a knowledge
questionnaire, responses to vignettes, and respondents' own
experiences with sexual violence.

Tags: crime-prevention, rape, reactions-to-crime, sexual-assault, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Effectiveness of Culturally-Focused Batterer Counseling for African American Men in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2001-2004

This study used an experimental clinical trial to test the
 effectiveness of culturally-focused batterer counseling against
 conventional cognitive-behavioral counseling in African American
 men. A total of 503 men, including all African American men mandated
 by the domestic violence court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to
 batterer counseling between November 2001 and May 2004, were randomly
 assigned to one of three counseling options: culturally-focused
 counseling in an all African American group, conventional counseling
 in an all African American group, or conventional counseling in a
 racially mixed group. All three counseling options required a minimum
 of 16 weekly group sessions. At program intake, the men completed a
 background questionnaire, the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test
 (SMAST) and the Racial Identity Scale (RAIS), contained in Part 1,
 Men's Intake Questionnaire Data. The men later completed a survey of
 past experiences of violence, contained in Part 2, Men's Past Violence
 Survey Data. The men were interviewed once at five months after
 program intake about their impressions of and ratings of the
 counseling. Results of those interviews are in Part 3, Men's
 Five-Month Follow-up Data. A female partner was interviewed for 399 of
 the male subjects at program intake. Their responses are contained in
 Part 4, Women's Background Data. Female partners (both initial victims
 and new partners) were interviewed at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after the
 initial interview at the time of the men's program intake (Parts
 5-8). The follow-up interviews asked about the women's relationship
 status, abusive behavior and its circumstances, help seeking, and
additional intervention.

Tags: client-characteristics, cultural-identity, domestic-violence, intimate-partner-violence, treatment-outcome, treatment-programs, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Case Classification for Juvenile Corrections:  Evaluation of the Youth Level of Service Inventory in Ohio, 1998-2001

This study assessed the effectiveness of the Youth Level of
Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI or Y-LSI). The Y-LSI is an
instrument for classifying juvenile offender risk of recidivism and
for identifying areas of treatment need that, if addressed, will
result in a reduced risk of recidivism. Three juvenile correction
agencies in Ohio that used the Y-LSI for case classification were the
settings for this study. Data in Part 1 were collected on 1,679 youths
received in the three correctional settings between July 1, 1998, and
June 30, 1999. Youths' files were reviewed to complete the data
collection instruments. These files contained demographic and
background information, Y-LSI assessments, and information relating to
treatment and service referrals, completion of programming, and
supervision outcome. One year after the initial Y-LSI assessments,
reassessment data were collected on youths. Reassessments were
completed on youth at the time of program completion or one year after
the initial assessment. Supervision outcome data were collected two
years after the initial data collection. Data in Part 2 were collected
in 2001 through a survey of 196 agency staff members on their
reactions to the use of the Y-LSI as a classification instrument.

Tags: case-management, juvenile-offenders, juvenile-recidivists, recidivism-prediction, risk-assessment, treatment
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluation of the Transfer of Responsibility for Child Protective Services to Law Enforcement in Manatee, Pasco, and Pinellas Counties, Florida, 1995-2001

In 1998 Florida law required that the responsibility for
 child maltreatment investigations be transferred from a statewide
 child welfare agency to the sheriff's offices in Manatee, Pasco, and
 Pinellas Counties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes
 produced by this change. This study used a nonequivalent control
 group design. Performance in Manatee, Pasco, and Pinellas Counties was
 compared to performance in selected counties before and after the
 change in service took place. Data were obtained from the Florida
 Abuse Hotline Information System (FAHIS), an online data system that
 contained records of all reported incidents of abuse and neglect in
the state of Florida.

Tags: child-abuse, child-neglect, child-welfare, counties, law-enforcement
Organization: Department of Justice
Exploring Alternative Data Sources for the Study of Assault in Miami, Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994 -1997

The study involved the collection of data on serious assaults that occured in three cities: Miami, Florida (1996-1997), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1994-1996), and St. Louis, Missouri (1995-1996). The data were extracted from police offense reports, and included detailed information about the incidents (Part 1) as well as information about the victims, suspects, and witnesses for each incident (Parts 2-9).

Tags: aggravated-assault, arrest-records, arrest-warrants, assault, crime-reporting, police-reports, victimization, violent-crime, witnesses
Organization: Department of Justice
Residential Neighborhood Crime Control Project: Hartford, Connecticut, 1973, 1975-1977, 1979

This data collection contains responses to victimization
surveys that were administered as part of both the planning and
evaluation stages of the Hartford Project, a crime opportunity
reduction program implemented in a residential neighborhood in
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1976. The Hartford Project was an experiment
in how to reduce residential burglary and street robbery/purse snatching
and the fear of those crimes. Funded through the Hartford Institute of
Criminal and Social Justice, the project began in 1973. It was based
on a new "environmental" approach to crime prevention: a comprehensive
and integrative view addressing not only the relationship among
citizens, police, and offenders, but also the effect of the physical
environment on their attitudes and behavior. The surveys were
administered by the Center for Survey Research at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston. The Center collected Hartford resident survey
data in five different years: 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1979. The
1973 survey provided basic data for problem analysis and
planning. These data were updated twice: in 1975 to gather baseline
data for the time of program implementation, and in the spring of 1976
with a survey of households in one targeted neighborhood of Hartford
to provide data for the time of implementation of physical changes
there. Program evaluation surveys were carried out in the spring of
1977 and two years later in 1979. The procedures for each survey were
essentially identical each year in order to ensure comparability
across time. The one exception was the 1976 sample, which was not
independent of the one taken in 1975. In each survey except 1979,
respondents reported on experiences during the preceding 12-month
period. In 1979 the time reference was the past two years. The survey
questions were very similar from year to year, with 1973 being the most
unique. All surveys focused on victimization, fear, and perceived risk
of being victims of the target crimes. Other questions explored
perceptions of and attitudes toward police, neighborhood problems, and
neighbors. The surveys also included questions on household and
respondent characteristics.

Tags: burglary, citizen-attitudes, communities, crime, crime-control-programs, crime-prevention, fear-of-crime, law-enforcement, neighborhood-conditions, neighborhoods, police-citizen-interactions, police-community-relations, police-performance, reactions-to-cr
Organization: Department of Justice
Measuring Police-Community Interaction Variables in Indianapolis, 1999-2000

This study, funded under the Measuring What Matters
Program, was conducted to identify general neighborhood strengthening,
or community building, processes and police contributions to them. The
purpose of the study, also known as the Police-Community Interaction
Project (PCIP), was to conceive, identify, or define recognizable
patterns of interaction and to find ways to treat these as quantities
that vary in amount and can be shown to fluctuate over time or across
places. To that end, researchers conducted surveys of block clubs,
neighborhood associations, and umbrella groups to gauge the issues
that were important to them, steps they were taking to address these
issues, and the ways in which they interacted with the police.
Researchers also attended the meetings and events held by the Westside
Cooperative Organization (WESCO), an umbrella group, and gathered
coded data about the meetings, events and issues discussed. Specific
variables in the study include demographic variables about the blocks,
neighborhoods, and districts represented by the organizations,
descriptive variables on the organizations themselves, variables
describing issues of importance to the organizations and steps those
organizations were taking to address the issues, variables to describe
the interaction between the organizations and police, and variables
describing police involvement in community activities.

Tags: community-development, community-involvement, community-organizations, community-participation, community-policing, police-community-relations, police-effectiveness, police-training
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of Weapon-Related Experiences, Behaviors, and Concerns of High School Youth in the United States, 1996

This national-level survey of youth was undertaken to
gather detailed behavioral and attitudinal data concerning weapons and
violence. The research project sought to obtain information from a
broad sample of high-school-aged youth to achieve diversity regarding
history, cultural background, population size and density, urban and
non-urban mix, economic situation, and class, race, and ethnic
distributions. Data for the study were derived from two surveys
conducted during the spring of 1996. The first survey was a lengthy
questionnaire that focused on exposure to weapons (primarily firearms
and knives) and violence, and was completed by 733 10th- and
11th-grade male students. Detail was gathered on all weapon-related
incidents up to 12 months prior to the survey. The second survey,
consisting of a questionnaire completed by 48 administrators of the
53 schools that the students attended, provided information regarding
school characteristics, levels of weapon-related activity in the
schools, and anti-violence strategies employed by the schools. The
student survey covered demographic characteristics of the respondent,
family living situations, educational situations and aspirations,
drug, criminal, and gang activities, crime- and violence-related
characteristics of family and friends, respondent's social and
recreational activities, exposure to violence generally, personal
victimization history, and possession of and activities relating to
firearms and knives. Administrators were asked to provide basic
demographic data about their schools and to rate the seriousness of
violence, drugs, guns, and other weapons in their institutions. They
were asked to provide weapon-related information about the average
male junior in their schools as well as to estimate the number of
incidents involving types of weapons on school grounds during the past
three years. The administrators were also asked to identify, from an
extensive list of violence reduction measures, those that were
practiced at their schools. Variables are also provided about the type
of school, grades taught, enrollment, and size of the community. In
addition to the data collected directly from students and school
administrators, Census information concerning the cities and towns in
which the sampled schools were located was also obtained. Census data
include size of the city or town, racial and ethnic population
distributions, age, gender, and educational attainment distributions,
median household and per capita income distributions, poverty rates,
labor force and unemployment rates, and violent and property crime
rates.

Tags: crime-in-schools, crime-prevention, demographic-characteristics, firearms, high-school-students, high-schools, school-violence, violence, weapons, weapons-offenses, youths
Organization: Department of Justice
Inventory of Data Elements in State and Federal Corrections Information Systems, 1998

This survey summarizes the data elements maintained by
state and federal corrections information systems that track adult,
sentenced offenders, and assesses the severity of obstacles in
reporting statistical information. Two instruments, an Inventory
Questionnaire and an Obstacles Survey, were mailed to Departments of
Correction in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and to the
Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Inventory Questionnaire asked 207
questions about data elements describing offenders, 15 questions about
elements describing facility management, and 20 questions about the
capabilities of the information system to process data
electronically. For some elements, questions were asked to determine
if more detailed information (subvalues) about the element existed.
The Obstacles Survey asked departments to rate the severity of
problems they may encounter when processing requests for statistical
information. The items were grouped into five categories: legislative
and institutional factors, hardware factors, software factors,
staffing factors, and data factors.

Tags: adults, correctional-facilities, corrections-management, information-systems, information-use, offenders, prison-inmates, program-evaluation
Organization: Department of Justice
Impact of Gang Migration:  Effective Responses by Law Enforcement Agencies in the United States, 1992

This study was the first attempt to investigate gang
 migration systematically and on a national level. The primary
 objectives of the study were (1) to identify the scope of gang
 migration nationally, (2) to describe the nature of gang migration,
 (3) to assess the impact of gang migration on destination cities, and
 (4) to describe the current law enforcement responses to the migration
 of gangs and identify those that appeared to be most effective for
 various types of migration. Two phases of data collection were
 used. The major objective of the initial phase was to identify cities
 that had experienced gang migration (Part 1). This was accomplished by
 distributing a brief mail questionnaire in 1992 to law enforcement
 agencies in cities identified as potential gang or gang migration
 sites. The second major phase of data collection involved in-depth
 telephone interviews with law enforcement officers in cities that had
 experienced gang migration in order to develop descriptions of the
 nature of migration and police responses to it (Part 2). For Part 1,
 information was collected on the year migration started, number of
 migrants in the past year, factors that deter gang migration, number
 of gang members, names of gangs, ethnic distribution of gang members
 and their drug market involvement, number of gang homicides, number of
 1991 gang "drive-bys", and if gangs or narcotics were specified in the
 respondent's assignment. For Part 2, information was collected on the
 demographics of gang members, the ethnic percentage of drug gang
 members and their involvement in distributing specific drugs, and the
 influence of gang migrants on local gang and crime situations in terms
 of types and methods of crime, drug distribution activities,
 technology/equipment used, and targets of crime. Information on
 patterns of gang migration, including motivations to migrate, drug gang
 migration, and volume of migration, was also collected. Local responses
 to gang migration covered information sources, department policies
 relative to migration, gang specialization in department, approaches
 taken by the department, and information exchanges and coordination
among local, state, and federal agencies.

Tags: cities, drive-by-shootings, drug-traffic, gang-members, gang-migration, gang-violence, gangs, police-response
Organization: Department of Justice
Divorce Mediation and Domestic Violence in the United States, 1993

This study gathered data on policies and procedures for
 identifying domestic violence issues among divorcing couples and
 examined divorce mediation practices and policies in cases with
 allegations of spousal violence. Mediators and court administrators
 provided information on: (1) whether and how they attempted to gauge
 the level of domestic abuse and the capacity of divorcing parties to
 mediate, and (2) common adjustments to the mediation process made to
 enhance safety in divorce cases where domestic abuse is present. Data
 collection involved a collaboration with the Association of Family and
 Conciliation Courts (AFCC) in the administration and analysis of this
 survey. Court programs providing divorce mediation and/or custody
 evaluations in 1993 were targeted. The questionnaire was mailed in
 late 1993 to 200 institutional members of the AFCC and active
 providers of family and divorce services in the National Center for
 State Courts database. A total of 149 public-sector divorce mediation
 and custody/visitation counseling providers responded. Variables
 include information on the rules, statutes, or guidelines under which
 the program operates, case handling procedures prior to mediation or
 custody/visitation evaluations, and procedures used when clients come
 to mediation. Information is also provided on the number of paid
 professional staff, number of custody/visitation mediations and
 evaluations completed, population of the jurisdiction, the program's
 relationship to the court, types of orientation programs for parents
 provided by the court, if the community had any supervised visitation
services, and the city and state in which the program is located.

Tags: case-management, counseling, divorce, domestic-violence, family-conflict, family-courts, family-violence, mediation, policies-and-procedures, program-evaluation, victim-safety
Organization: Department of Justice
Community Policing and Police Agency Accreditation in the United States, 1992 and 1994

This study was undertaken to examine the compatibility of
 law enforcement agency accreditation and community policing. It sought
 to answer the following questions: (1) Are accreditation and community
 policing compatible? (2) Do accreditation and community policing
 conflict? (3) Does accreditation support community policing? (4) Did
 any of this change with the 1994 "top-down" revision of the
 Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)
 standards? To that end, the researchers conducted separate content
 analyses of the 897 accreditation standards of the Commission on
 Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) in effect at the
 end of 1992 and the revised set of 436 standards published in
 1994. The standards were coded on 27 variables derived from the
 literature on community policing and police
 administration. Information was collected on the basics of each
 accreditation standard, its references to issues of community-oriented
 policing (COP) and problem-oriented policing (POP), and general
 information on its compatibility, or conflict with COP and POP. Basic
 variables cover standard, chapter, section, and
 applicability. Variables focusing on the compatibility of
 community-oriented policing and the accreditation standards include
 sources of legitimacy/authorization, community input, community
 reciprocity, geographic responsibility, and broadening of
 functions. Variables on problem-oriented policing include level of
 analysis, empirical analysis, collaboration with nonpolice agencies,
 evaluation/assessment, and nature of the problem. Variables on
 management and administration concern officer discretion,
 specialization by unit, specialization by task, formalization,
 centralization, levels/hierarchy, employee notification, employee
 involvement, employee rights, specific accountability, and customer
 orientation. General information on the compatibility or conflict
 between a standard and community-oriented policing/problem-oriented
 policing includes overall restrictiveness of the standard, primary
strategic affiliation, focus on process, and focus on administration.

Tags: accreditation-institutions, community-policing, law-enforcement-agencies, policies-and-procedures, public-interest
Organization: Department of Justice
Victimization and Fear of Crime among Arab Americans in Metro-Detroit 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 examines the experiences of Arab versus non-Arab households with crime and their relationships with and attitudes towards the police in their communities. Face to face interviews were conducted in 414 households. Data were analyzed to gauge respondents' level of fear regarding crime and other factors that affect their risk of victimization.This collection includes one SPSS data file: "Arab_study_data.sav" with 201 variables and 414 cases and one SPSS syntax file: "Arab_study_syntax.sps".

Tags: arab-americans, burglary, crime, crime-prevention, crime-reporting, ethnic-discrimination, fear-of-crime, hate-crimes, neighborhood-characteristics, neighborhood-conditions, opinions, police, police-performance, robbery, vandalism, victimization, violent
Organization: Department of Justice