AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Recidivism in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 - Standalone Data (Rounds 1 to 13)

The NLSY97 standalone data files are intended to be used by crime researchers for analyses without requiring supplementation from the main NLSY97 data set. The data contain age-based calendar year variables on arrests and incarcerations, self-reported criminal activity, substance use, demographic variables and relevant variables from other domains which are created using the NLSY97 data. The main NLSY97 data are available for public use and can be accessed online at the NLS Investigator Web site and at the NACJD Web site (as ICPSR 3959). Questionnaires, user guides and other documentation are available at the same links. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) was designed by the United States Department of Labor, comprising the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) Series. Created to be representative of United States residents in 1997 who were born between the years of 1980 and 1984, the NLSY97 documents the
transition from school to work experienced by today's youths through
data collection from 1997. The majority of the oldest cohort members (age 16 as of December 31, 1996) were still in school during the first survey round and the
youngest respondents (age 12) had not yet entered the labor market.

Tags: alcohol, arrests, crime, demographic-characteristics, educational-background, health, income, substance-abuse, tobacco-use, young-adults, youths
Organization: Department of Justice
Recidivism Among Young Parolees: a Study of Inmates Released from Prison in 22 States, 1978

This study examines the criminal activities of a group of
young offenders after their release from prison to parole supervision.
Previous studies have examined recidivism using arrests as the
principal measure, whereas this study examines a variety of factors,
including length of incarceration, age, sex, race, prior arrest
record, prosecutions, length of time between parole and rearrest,
parolees not prosecuted for new offenses but having their parole
revoked, rearrests in states other than the paroling states, and the
nature and location of rearrest charges. Parolees in the 22 states
covered in this study account for 50 percent of all state prisoners
paroled in the United States in 1978.

Tags: arrests, crime, criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, parole-systems
Organization: Department of Justice
Race of Prisoners Admitted to State and Federal Institutions in the United States, 1926-1986

This data collection includes tabulations of annual adult
 admissions to federal and state correctional institutions by
 race. Data are provided for the years 1926 to 1986 and include
 tabulations for prisons in each of the 50 states and the District of
 Columbia, as well as federal prison totals and United States
 totals. The figures were derived from a voluntary reporting program in
 which each state, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of
 Prisons reported summary and detailed statistics as a part of the
 National Prisoner Statistics series. Individual state and United
 States population figures according to racial categories also are
provided.

Tags: correctional-facilities, correctional-facilities-adults, federal-correctional-facilities, inmates, race, state-correctional-facilities
Organization: Department of Justice
Public Image of Courts, 1977:  Special Publics Data

This data collection and its companion study, PUBLIC
IMAGE OF COURTS, 1977: GENERAL PUBLIC DATA (ICPSR 7703), were
undertaken to explore attitudes toward courts and justice. These surveys
sought to measure perceptions of and experiences
with local, state, and federal courts as well as general attitudes toward
the administration of justice and legal actors. The general objectives of
the studies were to (1) determine levels of public knowledge of courts,
(2) test reactions to situations that might, or might not, prompt recourse
to courts, (3) determine the incidence, nature, and evaluations of court
experience, (4) describe and account for evaluations of court performance,
(5) indicate attitudes toward legal actors, and (6) indicate reactions to
alternative means of dispute resolution. Two samples were drawn: a national
sample of the general public (ICPSR 7703) and a "special publics" sample
of judges, lawyers, and community leaders. The 1,112 respondents in the special
publics sample were interviewed by a group of interviewers described
as "retired business executives specially trained to interview leadership
groups."

Tags: court-system, judges, judicial-process, justice
Organization: Department of Justice
Public Image of Courts, 1977: General Public Data

This data collection and its companion study, PUBLIC IMAGE
OF COURTS, 1977: SPECIAL PUBLICS DATA (ICPSR 7704), were undertaken to
explore attitudes toward
courts and justice. These surveys sought to measure perceptions of and
experiences with local, state, and federal courts as well as general
attitudes toward the administration of justice and legal actors. The
general objectives of the studies were to (1) determine levels of public
knowledge of courts, (2) test reactions to situations that might, or
might not, prompt recourse to courts, (3) determine the incidence,
nature, and evaluations of court experience, (4) describe and account
for evaluations of court performance, (5) indicate attitudes toward
legal actors, and (6) indicate reactions to alternative means of dispute
resolution. Two samples were drawn: a national sample of the general
public and a "special publics" sample of judges, lawyers, and
community leaders (ICPSR 7704). The 1,931 respondents in the general
public sample were interviewed in person by the National Consumer
Field Staff of Yankelovich, Skelly, and White, Inc.

Tags: court-system, judges, judicial-process, justice
Organization: Department of Justice
Police Use of Force Data, 1996: [United States]

In 1996, the Bureau of Justice Statistics sponsored a
 pretest of a survey instrument designed to compile data on citizen
 contacts with police, including contacts in which police use force.
 The survey, which involved interviews (both face-to-face and by phone)
 carried out by the United States Census Bureau, was conducted as a
 special supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS),
 an ongoing household survey of the American public that elicits
 information concerning recent crime victimization
 experiences. Questions asked in the supplement covered reasons for
 contact with police officer(s), characteristics of the officer, weapons
 used by the officer, whether there were any injuries involved in the
 confrontation between the household member and the officer, whether
 drugs were involved in the incident, type of offense the respondent
 was charged with, and whether any citizen action was
taken. Demographic variables include race, sex, and age.

Tags: crime, police-citizen-interactions, police-officers, police-use-of-force, public-opinion, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems (NSIDS), 1999

This survey collected nationwide data in order to: (1)
identify the number and characteristics of publicly financed indigent
defense systems and agencies in the United States, (2) measure how
legal services were provided to indigent criminal defendants in terms
of caseloads, workloads, policies, and practices, and (3) describe the
types of offenses handled by indigent defense system organizations.
The study was initially designed to permit measurable statistical
estimates at the national level for each region of the United States,
for individual states, and for the 100 most populous counties,
including the District of Columbia. However, due to resource and
financial constraints, the study was scaled back to collect indigent
criminal defense data at the trial level for (1) the 100 most populous
counties, (2) 197 counties outside the 100 most populous counties, and
(3) states that entirely funded indigent criminal defense services.

Tags: court-cases, defendants, defense-counsel, defense-law, legal-representation, legal-systems, policies-and-procedures, public-defenders
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 2001

This study contains data from a survey of publicly operated
 forensic crime labs that perform deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
 testing. The survey was a follow-up to the initial survey of DNA crime
 labs in 1998 (ICPSR study 2879). The survey included questions about
 each lab's budget, personnel, procedures, equipment, and workloads in
 terms of known subject cases, unknown subject cases, and convicted
 offender DNA samples. The survey was sent to 135 forensic laboratories,
 and 124 responses were received from individual public laboratories and
 headquarters for statewide forensic crime laboratory systems. The
 responses included 110 publicly funded forensic laboratories that
performed DNA testing in 47 states.

Tags: crime-laboratories, criminal-investigations, dna-fingerprinting, forensic-sciences, personnel, policies-and-procedures
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 1998

This study reports findings from a survey of publicly
 operated forensic crime labs that perform deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
 testing. The survey includes questions about each lab's budget,
 personnel, workload, and operating policies and procedures. Data were
 obtained from 108 out of 120 estimated known labs, including all
statewide labs.

Tags: crime-laboratories, dna-fingerprinting, forensic-sciences, personnel, policies-and-procedures
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of Court Organization, 1971-1972

The purpose of this study
was to document the existing organization of courts in the 50 states
and the District of Columbia as of 1971-1972. The survey covers all
appellate courts, courts of general jurisdiction, special courts, and
other courts of limited jurisdiction. Excluded were justices of the
peace and similar magistrates whose compensation is solely on a direct
fee basis, and courts of limited or special jurisdiction located in
municipalities or townships with a 1960 population of less than 1,000.
The data for courts include information on the organization of the
court, geographic location, type of court, level of government
administering the court, number, types, and full- or part-time status
of judicial and other personnel, method of appealing cases, location of
court records, and types of statistics. Court subdivision variables cover
organization of the courts, geographic location, type of
court, level of government administering the court, types of
jurisdiction, percentage of judges' time spent on types of cases,
availability of jury trials, and length of sentence and amounts of
fines which may be imposed by the court.

Tags: court-cases, court-system, criminal-justice-system
Organization: Department of Justice
NCVS Victimization Analysis Tool (NVAT)

This dynamic analysis tool allows you to examine National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data on both violent and property victimization by select victim, household, and incident characteristics.

The NCVS is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. It is an annual data collection conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The NCVS collects information from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households on nonfatal crimes, reported and not reported to the police, against persons age 12 or older.

Violent crimes measured by the NCVS include rape and sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Property crimes include burglary/trespassing, motor-vehicle theft, and theft.

Tags: aggravated-assault, crime-classification, domestic-violence, household-victimization-rate, pocket-picking, property-crime, purse-snatching, serious-violent-victimization, sexual-assault, simple-assault
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys: Victim Risk Supplement, 1983

This special one-time survey was designed to collect data
on persons aged 12 and over reporting household victimizations. The
supplement, administered over a one-month period as part of the
National Crime Survey, gathered data on people's lifestyles in order
to determine whether certain lifestyles were related to crime
victimization. Five questionnaires used by the Census Bureau for data
collection served as the data collection model for this
supplement. The first and second questionnaires, VRS-1 and VRS-2,
contained basic screen questions and an incident report,
respectively. VRS-3, the third questionnaire, was completed for every
household member aged 16 or older, and included items specifically
designed to determine whether a person's lifestyle at work, home, or
during leisure time affected the risk of crime victimization. The
interviewers completed the fourth and fifth questionnaires, VRS-4 and
VRS-5. They were instructed to answer questions about the respondents'
neighborhoods and behavior during the interview.

Tags: crime, criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, households, leisure, living-conditions, neighborhoods, quality-of-life, residential-environment, victimization, work-environment
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys: Reverse Record Check Studies: Washington, DC, San Jose, and Baltimore, 1970-1971

These surveys were part of a series of pretests conducted
during the early 1970s to reveal problems associated with doing a
nationwide study on victimization. They were done to determine the most
effective reference period to use when questioning respondents in order
to gain the fullest and most reliable information, to measure the
degree to which respondents move incidents occurring outside the
reference period into that period when questioned, and to explore the
possibility of identifying incidents by a few broad general questions
as opposed to a series of more specific probing questions.

Tags: assault, crime, demographic-characteristics, households, justice, robbery, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys:  Redesign Data, 1975-1979

These data are a product of the National Crime Surveys
Redesign Project. The purpose of the data collection was to create
several different data files from existing public-use National Crime
Surveys files. For each crime, information is gathered on the victim's
housing unit and household and the incident itself. A personal history
and interview are also included. Several data files contain National
Crime Survey and Uniform Crime Report data on the following index
crimes: robbery, larceny-theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft, rape,
and aggravated assault.

Tags: assault, auto-theft, burglary, census-data, crime, criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, households, larceny, neighborhoods, rape, robbery, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys:  National Sample, 1986-1992 [Near-Term Data]

The objective of the National Crime Surveys is to provide
 data on the level of crime victimization in the United States and to
 collect information on the characteristics of crime incidents and
 victims. Each respondent was asked a series of screen questions to
 determine if he or she was victimized during the six-month period
 preceding the first day of the month of the interview. Screen
 questions cover the following types of crimes, including attempts:
 rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle
 theft. The data include type of crime, description of the offender,
 severity of the crime, injuries or losses, and demographic information
 on household members such as age, sex, race, education, employment,
median family income, marital status, and military history.

Tags: assault, auto-theft, burglary, crime, crime-rates, larceny, offenders, rape, robbery, victimization, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys:  National Sample, 1979-1987 [Revised Questionnaire]

The purpose of the National Crime Surveys is to provide
data on the level of crime victimization in the United States and to
collect data on the characteristics of crime incidents and victims.
Information about each household and personal victimization was
recorded. The data include type of crime, description of the offender,
severity of crime, injuries or losses, and demographic characteristics
of household members.

Tags: census-data, crime, criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, households, neighborhoods, offenses, victimization, victims, violent-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys:  National Sample, 1973-1983

The National Crime Survey (NCS), a study of personal and
household victimization, measures victimization for six selected
crimes, including attempts. The NCS was designed to achieve three
primary objectives: to develop detailed information about the victims
and consequences of crime, to estimate the number and types of crimes
not reported to police, and to provide uniform measures of selected
types of crime. The surveys cover the following types of crimes,
including attempts: rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and
auto or motor vehicle theft. Crimes such as murder, kidnapping,
shoplifting, and gambling are not covered. Questions designed to
obtain data on the characteristics and circumstances of the
victimization were asked in each incident report. Items such as time
and place of occurrence, injuries suffered, medical expenses incurred,
number, age, race, and sex of offender(s), relationship of offender(s)
to victim (stranger, casual acquaintance, relative, etc.), and other
detailed data relevant to a complete description of the incident were
included. Legal and technical terms, such as assault and larceny, were
avoided during the interviews. Incidents were later classified in more
technical terms based upon the presence or absence of certain
elements. In addition, data were collected in the study to obtain
information on the victims' education, migration, labor force status,
occupation, and income. Full data for each year are contained in Parts
101-110. Incident-level extract files (Parts 1-10, 41) are available
to provide users with files that are easy to manipulate. The
incident-level datasets contain each incident record that appears in
the full sample file, the victim's person record, and the victim's
household information. These data include person and household
information for incidents only. Subsetted person-level files also are
available as Parts 50-79. All of the variables for victims are
repeated for a maximum of four incidents per victim. There is one
person-level subset file for each interview quarter of the complete
national sample from 1973 through the second interview quarter in
1980.

Tags: census-data, crime, criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, households, neighborhoods, residential-environment, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys:  National Sample of Rape Victims, 1973-1982

The purpose of this study was to provide an in-depth look
at rapes and attempted rapes in the United States. Part 1 of the
collection offers data on rape victims and contains variables
regarding the characteristics of the crime, such as the setting, the
relationship between the victim and offender, the likelihood of
injury, and the reasons why rape is not reported to police. Part 2
contains data on a control group of females who were victims of no
crime or of crimes other than rape. The information contained is
similar to that found in Part 1.

Tags: census-data, crime, criminal-justice-system, demographic-characteristics, households, neighborhoods, physical-violence, rape, residential-environment, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys:  Crime School Supplement, 1989

This supplement to the National Crime Surveys was designed
to collect data on crime victimization in schools in the United States.
Student respondents were asked a series of questions to determine their
school attendance in the last six months. Other questions concerning
schools were posed, including type of school, distance from home, and
general attendance and monitoring policies. The data present
information on the response of the school to student violation of
rules, accessibility of drugs, and violence in school, including types
of violence and student reaction. Other variables cover general violent
crimes, personal larceny crimes, and household crimes and offer
information on date, time, and place of crime. Demographic
characteristics of household members such as age, sex, race, education,
employment, median family income, and marital status are provided.

Tags: crime-in-schools, national-crime-surveys, school-attendance, school-security, school-violence, student-behavior
Organization: Department of Justice
National Crime Surveys: Cities, 1972-1975

This sample of the National Crime Survey contains
information about victimization in 26 central cities in the United
States. The data are designed to achieve three primary objectives: 1)
to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of
crime, 2) to estimate the numbers and types of crimes not reported to
police, and 3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes
and permit reliable comparisons over time and between areas of the
country. Information about each household or personal victimization was
recorded. The data include type of crime (attempts are covered as
well), description of offender, severity of crime, injuries or losses,
time and place of occurrence, age, race and sex of offender(s),
relationship of offenders to victims, education, migration, labor force
status, occupation, and income of persons involved.

Tags: census-data, cities, crime, criminal-justice-system, households, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice