AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Understanding Arrest Data in the National Incident-based Reporting System (NIBRS), Massachusetts, 2011-2013

 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 research examined the reliability of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) arrests data. Data on crime incidents, including data on whether an arrest was made or a summons issued, are collected from hundreds of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) across the country and then combined by the FBI into a national data set that is frequently used by researchers. This study compared arrest data in a sample of cases from NIBRS data files with arrest and summons data collected on the same cases directly from LEAs. The dataset consists of information collected from the Massachusetts NIBRS database combined with data from LEAs through a survey and includes data on arrests, summons, exceptional clearances, applicable statutes and offense names, arrest dates, and arrestees' sex, race, ethnicity and age for a sample of assault incidents between 2011 and 2013 from the NIBRS.
 The collection contains one SPSS data file (n=480; 32 variables). Qualitative data are not available as part of this collection.

Tags: arrests, assault, crime, law-enforcement-agencies
Organization: Department of Justice
Data from Urban Institute's Survey on Forced Marriage in the United States, 2017

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 Urban Institute, in collaboration with Tahirih Justice Center, sought to examine forced marriages in the United States via an exploratory study of the victimization experiences of those subjected to and threatened with forced marriage. The study also sought to begin to understand elements at the intersection of forced marriage with intimate partner and sexual violence, such as: how perpetrators threaten and actually force victims into marriages; the elements of force, fraud, or coercion in the tactics used to carry out victimization; other case demographics and dynamics (e.g., overseas marriages versus those in the United States); factors that put individuals at risk of forced marriage or that trigger or elevate their risk of related abuses; help-seeking behavior; the role of social, cultural, and religious norms in forced marriage; and the ability (or lack thereof) of service providers, school officials, and government agencies with protection mandates (law enforcement, child protection, and social workers) to screen for, and respond to, potential and reported cases of forced marriage.
This collection contains 1 Stata file: ICPSR-Data-File.dta (21007 cases; 48 variables).
The qualitative data are not available as part of this data collection at this time.

Tags: family-violence, forced-marriage, human-trafficking, marriage, sexual-abuse, victim-rights, victimization
Organization: Department of Justice
A New Role for Technology? The Implementation and Impact of Video Visits in State Prisons, Washington, 2012-2015

Research shows that prison visitation is integral to the success of incarcerated people, reducing recidivism, facilitating reentry into the community, and promoting positive parent-child relationships. However, people are often incarcerated long distances from their home communities in areas that are difficult to reach by public transport, creating significant barriers to in-person visitation. Departments of corrections are exploring the use of computer-based video visits as a means to address some of the visitation needs of those in custody in a cost-effective way while continuing to encourage in-person visits. To learn more about this practice, the study team conducted the following research activities:
A survey of incarcerated people: The study team surveyed 211 people incarcerated in Washington State prisons about their use of video visits, their perceptions of the service, and their experiences of in-person visits more generally. This was a self-administered, pen-and-paper survey.
An impact evaluation of video visits: The study team analyzed individual-level administrative data from the Washington Department of Corrections (WADOC) and the private video visit vendor (JPay) to understand whether use of the service affected four outcomes: 1) the number of in-person visits people received, 2) the number of rule violations (of any severity) people committed in prison, 3) the number of general (ie. non-serious) rule violations they committed, and 4) the number of serious (as defined by WADOC) rule violations that were committed. The researchers used two analytic techniques: 1) a difference-in-difference test, using inverse probability of treatment weighting, and 2) Bayesian additive regression trees.
An analysis of in-person visit rates: The study team analyzed administrative data relating to all people who were incarcerated for the 12 month period ending November 2015 (n=11,524). The study team produced descriptive statistics and conducted negative binomial regressions to understand the rates of in-person visits and how these related to the characteristics of the incarcerated people.

Tags: communication, corrections, prison-inmates, social-interaction, technology
Organization: Department of Justice
Understanding Familial DNA: National Study of Policies, Procedures, and Potential Impact, 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.
Seeking to measure the usage of Familial DNA Searching (FDS) to aid in criminal investigations, this study utilized a multi-phase, mixed methods approach to obtain data on FDS policies and practices in the United States. This study includes data from the National Survey of CODIS Laboratories, which was compiled after two expert roundtables, a literature and policy scan of practice, cost modeling, and state case studies.
The study includes one SPSS data file: FDS_National_Survey_of_CODIS_Labs_Data.sav

Tags: crime-laboratories, criminal-investigations, dna-fingerprinting, families, forensic-sciences, suspect-identification, victim-identification
Organization: Department of Justice
The Effectiveness of Coordinated Outreach in Intimate Partner Violence Cases in Denver, Colorado 2007 to 2009

In collaboration with community- and system-based partners, the current study used an experimental design to test the impact of phone outreach from community-based agencies to women exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) compared to phone referrals provided by system-based unit (i.e., the Victim Assistance Unit of the DPD or the City Attorney's Office) in a racially and ethnically diverse sample of women whose cases have come to the attention of the criminal justice system. The phone outreach was informed by an interdisciplinary team involving both system- and community-based team members. Participants, who were randomly selected to receive outreach or treatment-as-usual, were interviewed at three time points: after an incident of IPV was reported to the police (T1), 6 months after T1, and 12 months after T1. The study addressed three primary roles. First, investigators evaluated the effectiveness of a coordinated, community-based outreach program in improving criminal justice and victim safety and empowerment outcomes for IPV victims using a longitudinal, randomized control design. Second, victim and case characteristics that moderated outcomes were identified. Third, the influence of spatial characteristics on criminal justice outcomes was evaluated.

Tags: demographic-characteristics, domestic-assault, domestic-violence, intimate-partner-violence, outreach-programs, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, spouse-abuse, victim-safety, victim-services, victimization, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Victim Participation in Intimate Partner Violence Prosecution - Implications for Safety: Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1999-2002

This longitudinal mixed-methods study examined to what extent female intimate partner violence (IPV) victim participation in prosecution was associated with their future safety. The study followed a cohort of female IPV victims with cases the police presented to the prosecutor, in the year 2000, in a single Midwestern United States county (Kalamazoo County, Michigan) for a four-year period (1999-2002) across multiple systems (police, prosecutor, criminal court, civil court, hospital Emergency Departments) to assess the victim's experience with participation in IPV prosecution and her associated future help seeking, health and safety. Since this study utilized retrospective administrative data, subsequent IPV was defined as a future documented IPV-related police incident or an Emergency Department visit for IPV or injury. The data abstraction and analysis of the administrative data was informed by focus groups with survivors, advocates, and medical and criminal justice service providers, along with in-depth qualitative analysis of a stratified random sample of individual IPV cases. The final analytic dataset created by the research team integrated two types of data: (1) in-depth data about the index assault case and characteristics of the couple involved, and (2) longitudinal data about prior and subsequent IPV events spanning multiple systems: police, prosecutor, emergency department, and family court protection orders.

Tags: domestic-violence, intimate-partner-violence, prosecution, victim-safety, victim-services, victimization, violence-against-women
Organization: Department of Justice
Automated Reporting System Pilot Project in Los Angeles, 1990

The purpose of this pilot project was to determine if 
 preliminary investigation report (PIR) data filed by patrol officers 
 could be collected via laptop computers to allow the direct input of 
 the data into the Los Angeles Police Department Crime and Arrest 
 Database without adversely affecting the personnel taking or using the 
 reports. This data collection addresses the following questions: (1) 
 Did officers and supervisors prefer the automated reporting system 
 (ARS) or the handwritten version of the PIR? (2) Did the ARS affect the 
 job satisfaction or morale of officers and supervisors? (3) Did the ARS 
 reduce the amount of time that patrol officers, supervisors, and clerks 
 spent on paperwork? (4) Did the ARS affect the accuracy of information 
 contained in the PIRs? (5) Did detectives and prosecuting attorneys 
 find the ARS a more reliable source than handwritten PIRs? Officers and 
 supervisors in two divisions of the Los Angeles Police Department, 
 Wilshire and Hollywood, participated as control and experimental 
 groups. The control group continued using handwritten ("existing") 
 PIRs while the experimental group used the automated PIRs (ARS). The 
 General Information Questionnaire collected information on each 
 officer's rank, assignment, watch, gender, age, years with the Los 
 Angeles Police Department, education, job morale, job demands, 
 self-esteem, computer anxiety, and relationship with supervisor and 
 other officers. The Job Performance Rating Form gathered data on work 
 efforts, depth of job knowledge, work quality, oral and written skills, 
 and capacity to learn. The Time Study Sheets collected data on 
 investigation time, writing and editing time, travel time, approval and 
 correction time, review time, errors by type, and data input time for 
 both the handwritten and automated forms. The Evaluation of the 
 Existing Form and the Evaluation of the Automated Form both queried 
 respondents on ease of use, system satisfaction, and productivity loss. 
 The ARS Use Questionnaire asked about ease of use, typing skills, 
 computer skills, comfort with the system, satisfaction with training, 
 and preference for the system. The Hollywood Detective Division ARS Use 
 Questionnaire surveyed detectives on the system's ease of use, task 
 improvement, support for continued use, and preference for the system. 
 The PIR Content Evaluation Form collected data on quality of officers' 
 observations, organization and writing skills, physical evidence, 
 statements of victims, witnesses, and suspects, and offense 
 classification. The Caplan Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity subscales 
were used in the design of the questionnaires.

Tags: computer-programs, crime-reporting, databases, job-performance, job-satisfaction, morale, police-officers, program-evaluation
Organization: Department of Justice
Evaluating Network Sampling in Victimization Surveys in Peoria, Illinois, 1986

This data collection evaluates the advantages of network 
 sampling over traditional methods in conducting crime and victimization 
 surveys. Network sampling links population households in specified 
 ways, for reporting purposes, in order to increase the likelihood of 
 locating households with particular characteristics. The investigators 
 conducted a reverse record check survey of victims and a network survey 
 with a random sample of the victims' relatives and close friends. The 
 researchers compared the extent to which crime victims reported their 
 victimization experiences in a general crime and victimization 
 interview and the extent to which a randomly selected relative or close 
 friend of each victim reported the same victimization in the same type 
 of interview. In addition, they examined whether significant reporting 
 differences were evident by type of crime and by various demographic 
variables.

Tags: crime-reporting, households, population-characteristics, program-evaluation, victimization, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment, 1987-1989

This study represents a modified replication of the
Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (SPECIFIC DETERRENT EFFECTS
OF ARREST FOR DOMESTIC ASSAULT: MINNEAPOLIS, 1981-1982 [ICPSR 8250]).
The Minneapolis study found arrest to be an effective deterrent
against repeat domestic violence. The two key purposes of the current
study were (1) to examine the possible differences in reactions to
arrest, and (2) to compare the effects of short and long incarceration
associated with arrest. Research protocol involved 35 patrol officers
in four Milwaukee police districts screening domestic violence cases
for eligibility, then calling police headquarters to request a
randomly-assigned disposition. The three possible randomly assigned
dispositions were (1) Code 1, which consisted of arrest and at least
one night in jail, unless the suspect posted bond, (2) Code 2, which
consisted of arrest and immediate release on recognizance from the
booking area at police headquarters, or as soon as possible, and (3)
Code 3, which consisted of a standard Miranda-style script warning
read by police to both suspect and victim. A battered women's shelter
hotline system provided the primary measurement of the frequency of
violence by the same suspects both before and after each case leading
to a randomized police action. Other forms of measurement included
arrests of the suspect both before and after the offense, as well as
offenses against the same victim. Initial victim interviews were
attempted within one month after the first 900 incidents were
compiled. A second victim interview was attempted six months after the
incident for all 1,200 cases. Data collected for this study included
detailed data on each of the 1,200 randomized events, less detailed
data on an additional 854 cases found ineligible, "pipeline" data on
the frequency of domestic violence in the four Milwaukee police
districts, official measures of prior and subsequent domestic violence
for both suspects and victims, interviews of arrested suspects for
eligible and ineligible cases, criminal justice system dispositions of
the randomized arrests, results of urinalysis tests of drug and
alcohol use for some arrestees, and log attempts to obtain interviews
from suspects and victims. Demographic variables include victim and
suspect age, race, education, employment status, and marital status.
Additional information obtained includes victim-offender
relationships, alcohol and drug use during incident, substance of
conflict, nature of victim injury and medical treatment as reported by
police and victims, characteristics of suspects in the Code 1 and 2
arrest groups, victim and suspect reports of who called police, and
victim and suspect versions of speed of police response.

Tags: arrest-records, arrests, deterrence, domestic-assault, domestic-violence, imprisonment, police-response, recidivism, victims, womens-shelters
Organization: Department of Justice
Alternative Procedures for Reducing Delays in Criminal Appeals:  Sacramento, Springfield, and Rhode Island, 1983-1984

This data collection investigates the effectiveness of
 alternative approaches to reducing delays in criminal
 appeals. Interviews were conducted with court representatives from
 districts employing differing alternatives. These districts and
 approaches are (1) case management in the Illinois Appellate Court,
 Fourth District, in Springfield, (2) staff screening for submission
 without oral argument in the California Court of Appeals, Third
 District, in Sacramento, and (3) fast-tracking procedures in the Rhode
 Island Supreme Court. Parallel interviews were conducted in public
 defenders' offices in three additional locations: Colorado, the
 District of Columbia, and Minnesota. Questions focused on the backlogs
 courts were facing, the reasons for the backlogs, and the
 consequences. Participants were asked about the fairness and possible
 consequences of procedures employed by their courts and other courts
 in this study. Case data were acquired from court records of the
Springfield, Sacramento, and Rhode Island courts.

Tags: appeal-procedures, appellate-courts, case-management, case-processing, criminal-justice-system
Organization: Department of Justice
Criminal Careers, Criminal Violence, and Substance Abuse in California, 1963-1983

The purpose of the study was to investigate the criminal
career patterns of violent offenders. These data are intended to
facilitate the development of models to predict recidivism and
violence, and to construct parole supervision programs. Original data
were collected on young male offenders in 1964 and 1965 as they
entered the California Youth Authority (CYA). At this time, data were
collected on criminal history, including current offenses, drug and
alcohol use, psychological and personality variables, and sentencing, and
demographics such as age, education, work experience, and family
structure. The data collection also contains results from a number of
standardized psychological instruments: California Psychological
Inventory, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, California
Achievement Test Battery, General Aptitude Test Battery, Army General
Classification Test, and the Revised Beta Test. After release from the
CYA and over the following 20 years, subsequent arrest information
was collected on the offenders, including the nature of the offense,
disposition, and arrest and parole dates.

Tags: arrest-records, career-criminals, crime-prediction, criminal-histories, criminality-prediction, male-offenders, parole, personality-assessment, psychological-evaluation, recidivism, substance-abuse, violent-crime
Organization: Department of Justice
Implementation of Quantitative Decision Aids in the Oklahoma Probation and Parole System, 1989-1990

These data were collected to examine the use of
quantitative decision aids in making probation and parole decisions in
Oklahoma. The quantitative aids implemented in Oklahoma were
modifications of the Wisconsin risks/needs assessment instruments. To
determine the uses of and attitudes towards such instruments, Oklahoma
probation and parole officers were queried regarding the
appropriateness of the instruments in making probation and parole
decisions, the specific circumstances in which the instruments were
useful, the reasons why the instruments were used, and the extent to
which the instruments were manipulated. In addition, data were
collected from the officers on job satisfaction and age, length of
employment, sex, education, and race.

Tags: decision-making, parole-officers, probation-officers, program-evaluation, risk-assessment
Organization: Department of Justice