AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Hospital-Based Victim Assistance for Physically Injured Crime Victims in Charleston, South Carolina, 1990-1991

The central purpose of this study was to provide
descriptive information about hospitalized crime victims. More
specifically, patients' knowledge of victim services, the legal
justice system, and victims' rights were explored through their use of
medical and dental services. From July 1, 1990, to June 30, 1991, the
project staff obtained daily reports from the Medical University of
South Carolina (MUSC) Admissions Office regarding new admissions to
specified units. If patients granted permission, the staff member
administered a Criminal Victimization Screening Schedule (CVSS) and
asked permission to review the relevant portion of their medical
charts. Patients were also asked if they would be willing to
participate in interviews about their victimization. If so, they were
given the Criminal Victimization Interview (CVI), a structured
interview schedule developed for this study that included items on
demographics, victim and assault characteristics, knowledge of
victims' rights, and a post-traumatic stress disorder checklist. This
information is contained in Part 1, Interview Data File. At the
conclusion of the personal interviews, patients were referred to the
Model Hospital Victim Assistance Program (MHVAP), which was developed
for this project and which provided information, advocacy, crisis
counseling, and post-discharge referral services to hospitalized crime
victims and their families. The Follow-Up Criminal Victimization
Interview (FUCVI) was administered to 30 crime victims who had
participated in the study and who were successfully located 3 months
after discharge from the hospital. The FUCVI included questions on
health status, victim services utilization and satisfaction, and
satisfaction with the criminal justice system. These data are found in
Part 2, Follow-Up Data File.

Tags: counseling-services, criminal-justice-system, dental-health, health-care-services, health-services-utilization, hospitals, victim-rights, victim-services, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Drug Offender Treatment in Local Corrections in California and New York, 1991-1993

The purpose of this multisite program evaluation project
was to provide detailed and systematic descriptions of participants
and treatment program components for a sample of five drug treatment
programs in local jails. Three of the programs were located in
California: Jail Education and Treatment (JET), Deciding, Educating,
Understanding, Counseling, and Evaluation (DEUCE), and Rebuilding,
Educating, Awareness, Counseling, and Hope (REACH). Two programs were
in New York State: Substance Abuse Intervention Division (SAID) and
New Beginnings. The project was aimed at assessing program completion
rates as well as 12-month post-release recidivism for program
participants versus matched controls. Background information obtained
about the participating offenders includes sex, race, age, education,
marital status, and employment status, as well as history of drug use,
previous drug treatment, mental illness, inpatient/outpatient
episodes, and offenses and sentencing. Additional data cover program
location, dates of release from the program and from jail, type of
program termination, type of residence upon release, and anticipated
post-custody treatment. Information on each conviction/disposition was
obtained through state criminal information systems, and state-level
criminal history data (rap sheets) were collected for both the
treatment and comparison groups. The unit of analysis is arrest
events.

Tags: drug-abuse, drug-offenders, program-evaluation, recidivism, treatment-compliance, treatment-outcome, treatment-programs
Organization: Department of Justice
Management of Sex Offenders by Probation and Parole Agencies in the United States, 1994

This study examined various ways states approach and
 sanction sex crimes (i.e., child sexual abuse, incest, and sexual
 assault) and sex offenders. The aim of the study was to obtain basic
 information about policies and procedures of probation and parole
 agencies with respect to adult sex offender case management.  State
 corrections administrators in 49 states and the District of Columbia
 were contacted to supply information on their states' probation and
 parole offices and the corresponding jurisdictions. From these
 offices, probation and parole supervisors at the office-management
 level were selected as survey respondents because of their familiarity
 with the day-to-day office operations. Respondents were asked about
 the usage of various supervision methods, such as electronic
 monitoring, requiring offenders on probation or parole to register
 with law enforcement agencies, and polygraph testing. Sanctions such
 as requiring the offenders to seek treatment and forbidding contact
 with the victim were discussed, as were various queries about the
 handling of the victim in the case (whether a written statement by the
 victim was routinely included in the offender's file, whether officers
 usually had contact with the victim, and whether there was a system
 for advising victims of status changes for the offender). Other
 questions focused on whether the office used specialized assessments,
 caseloads, programs, and policies for sex offenders that differed from
 those used for other offenders. Various issues regarding treatment for
 offenders were also examined: who chooses and pays the treatment
 provider, whether the agency or the court approves treatment
 providers, what criteria are involved in approval, and whether the
office had an in-house sex offender treatment program.

Tags: parole, policies-and-procedures, probation, sex-offender-registration, sex-offenders, sex-offenses, treatment
Organization: Department of Justice
Phoenix [Arizona] Use of Force Project, June 1994

In 1994, the Phoenix Police Department, in conjunction with
 Rutgers University and Arizona State University, designed and
 implemented a study on the use of force by and against Phoenix police
 officers. This study was concerned with describing the amount of force
 used in different arrest situations and determining the extent to
 which officer, suspect, offense, and arrest situation characteristics
 can predict the amount of force used. Data were collected primarily
 through a one-page, two-sided survey instrument given to police
 officers. In addition, screening interviews regarding the use of force
 during the arrest were conducted with both officers and suspects to
 assess the reliability of the officer surveys. During the screening
 interviews, officers and suspects were asked brief questions about the
 use and extent of force by officers and suspects. In the officer
 survey form, six potential areas of force were identified: voice,
 motion, restraints, tactics, weapons, and injuries. Three dimensions
 of weapons use--possession, threatened use, and actual use--were also
 recorded. Basic demographic information on officers and suspects,
 descriptions of the arrest, and information regarding injuries were
also collected.

Tags: arrest-procedures, offenders, police-departments, police-officers, police-use-of-force
Organization: Department of Justice
Cost of Mental Health Care for Victims of Crime in the United States, 1991

The main objective of this survey was to determine the
 number of crime victims receiving mental health counseling, by type of
 crime, and the annual cost of treatment for each type of crime
 victim. Multiplying these two figures would yield an estimate of the
 annual financial cost of mental health care for crime victims. For
 this survey, mental health professionals were sampled from eight
 professional organizations and were asked questions about their
 clients during 1991. Respondents were instructed to count only those
 clients whose primary reason for being treated was because they were
 previously crime victims, regardless of whether the criminal
 victimization was the presenting issue at the time the client was
 first treated. Interviews were structured to first elicit information
 about the number of victims served for each type of crime. Respondents
 were then asked for details about the type and length of treatment for
 the crime type most frequently encountered by the respondent. Similar
 information was obtained for each additional crime type mentioned by
 the respondent, in descending order of frequency. Variables include
the number of adults, youths, and children served

Tags: counseling-services, crime, health-care-costs, mental-health-services, treatment-programs, victim-services, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Extended National Assessment Survey of Law Enforcement Anti-Gang Information Resources, 1993-1994

This survey extended a 1992 survey (NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
SURVEY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ANTI-GANG INFORMATION RESOURCES, 1990-1992
[ICPSR 6237]) in two ways: (1) by updating the information on the 122
municipalities included in the 1992 survey, and (2) by including data
on all cities in the United States ranging in population from 150,000
to 200,000 and including a random sample of 284 municipalities ranging
in population from 25,000 to 150,000. Gang crime problems were defined
in the same manner as in the 1992 survey, i.e., a gang (1) was
identified by the police as a "gang," (2) participated in criminal
activity, and (3) involved youth in its membership. As in the 1992
survey, a letter was sent to the senior law enforcement departmental
administrator of each agency describing the nature of the survey. For
jurisdictions included in the 1992 survey, the letter listed the
specific information that had been provided in the 1992 survey and
identified the departmental representative who provided the 1992 data.
The senior law enforcement administrator was asked to report whether a
gang crime problem existed within the jurisdiction in 1994. If a
problem was reported, the administrator was asked to identify a
representative of the department to provide gang crime statistics and
a representative who was most knowledgeable on anti-gang field
operations. Annual statistics on gang-related crime were then
solicited from the departmental statistical representative. Variables
include city, state, ZIP code, and population category of the police
department, and whether the department reported a gang problem in
1994. Data on the number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related
incidents reported by the police department are also provided. If
actual numbers were not provided by the police department, estimates
of the number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related incidents were
calculated by sampling category.

Tags: cities, crime, gang-members, gang-violence, gangs, police-departments, youths
Organization: Department of Justice
Hair Assays for Drugs of Abuse in a Probation Population:  Pilot Study in a Florida Correctional Field Setting, 1993

The major objectives of this research project were: (1) to
 evaluate the effectiveness of the combination of hair and urine assays
 in determining drug use among probationers, (2) to examine the
 concordance patterns of hair and urine specimens, (3) to explore the
 perceptions and attitudes of probation officers regarding the use of hair
 assays for drug testing, and (4) to assess the feasibility of
 implementing hair analysis in a probationary field setting. The 22
 correctional officers who participated in this study were recruited
 from the Florida Department of Corrections Probation Field Services
 Divisions, and worked within Pinellas and Pasco counties. Each
 officer was requested to solicit from his or her caseload eight to ten
 probationers who would be eligible for the project because they would
 be undergoing at least monthly urinalysis or urine testing.
 Approximately 150 probationers participated in the project and were
 subject to hair assays for illicit drug use, along with standard urine
 testing. Specimens were collected and analyzed on 90
 probationers over a six-month period and on 101 probationers for five
 consecutive months, as well as fewer numbers of samples for the other
 probationers. The drugs for which the hair and urine specimens were
 analyzed included cocaine, opiates, cannabinoids such as marijuana,
 PCP, and methadone. Survey questions asked of the probation officers
 (Part 1) covered personal information (gender, ethnicity, education
 level, years of experience in corrections, and satisfaction with job)
 and attitudes and opinions about their jobs and drug testing
 (estimated percentage of caseload using drugs, whether all clients
 should be tested, and whether knowing drug quantities is helpful).
 Data in Part 2 cover probationers' drug test results and self-reported
 drug use, personal information (gender, age,
 weight, ethnicity, and criminal charge), a variety of hair questions
 (color, texture, style, length, how often shampooed, and if dyed,
 tinted, bleached, relaxed, or jeried), and use of medications, along
with the medication name and amount.

Tags: attitudes, drug-testing, probation-officers, probationers, process-evaluation, urinalysis
Organization: Department of Justice
Survey of Drug Enforcement Tactics of Law Enforcement Agencies in the United States, 1992

This program evaluation study is intended to capture fully
 the universe of drug enforcement tactics available in the United
 States and to assess trends in drug enforcement. The primary objective
 of the study was to learn more about the application of anti-drug
 tactics by police: What tactics are used by police to address drug use
 problems? How widely are these tactics used? What new and innovative
 tactics are being developed and applied by police? What anti-drug
 tactics are most effective or show some promise of effectiveness? To
 answer these questions, state and local law enforcement agencies
 serving populations of 50,000 or more were mailed surveys. The survey
 was administered to both patrol and investigation units in the law
 enforcement agencies. This dual pattern of administration was intended
 to capture the extent to which the techniques of one unit had been
 applied by another. The questionnaire consisted primarily of
 dichotomous survey questions on anti-drug tactics that could be
 answered "yes" or "no". In each of the 14 categories of tactics,
 respondents were encouraged to add other previously unidentified or
 unspecified tactics in use in their agencies. These open-ended
 questions were designed to insure that a final list of anti-drug
 tactics would be truly comprehensive and capture the universe of drug
 tactics in use. In addition to questions regarding structural
 dimensions of anti-drug tactics, the survey also collected
 standardized information about the law enforcement agency, including
 agency size, demographic characteristics and size of the agency's
 service population, and a description of the relative size and nature
of the jurisdiction's drug problems.

Tags: drug-law-enforcement, drug-law-offenses, drug-traffic, drug-use, law-enforcement-agencies
Organization: Department of Justice
Trends in Substance Abuse and Treatment Needs Among Inmates in the United States, 1996-1997

This data collection consists of the SPSS syntax used to
 recode existing variables and create new variables from the SURVEY OF
 INMATES OF LOCAL JAILS, 1996 [ICPSR 6858] and the SURVEY OF INMATES IN
 STATE AND FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, 1997 [ICPSR 2598]. Using
 the data from these two national surveys on jail and prison inmates,
 this study sought to expand the analyses of these data in order to
 fully explore the relationship between type and intensity of substance
 abuse and other health and social problems, analyze access to
 treatment and services, and make estimates of the need for different
types of treatment services in correctional systems.

Tags: causes-of-crime, correctional-facilities, drug-laws, drug-related-crimes, drugs, inmate-populations, inmate-programs, inmates, social-problems, substance-abuse, substance-abuse-treatment
Organization: Department of Justice
Disturbed Violent Offenders in New York, 1985

This data collection was designed to investigate the 
 relationship between mental illness and violent involvement over an 
 offender's criminal career and to develop a typology of violent 
 offenders that takes into account both mental health history and 
 substance use history. The collection is organized so that data for the 
 violent offender cohort can be matched with records of offender mental 
 health history, substance abuse history, and criminal career history. 
 The offenders were convicted of statutorily-defined "violent 
 offenses." Included in the collection are variables concerning 
 conviction offenses, intoxication status, victim-offender relationship, 
 injury result, type of violence, employment, marital status, gender, 
 and race. The criminal history file contains variables on dates of 
 arrest or juvenile contacts. The mental history file includes dates of 
entry and types of mental health services received.

Tags: career-criminals, criminal-histories, mental-disorders, mental-health, offenders, substance-abuse, violence
Organization: Department of Justice
Downtown Safety, Security, and Development in New York City, 1984

This data collection was designed to address problems of 
 crime as a barrier to the economic health of three outlying commercial 
 centers of New York City: Brooklyn, Fordham Road in the Bronx, and 
 Jamaica Center in Queens. Included in the survey are variables 
 concerning the respondent's age, race, gender, family income, length of 
 residence, and personal victimization experience. Also included are 
 variables pertaining to perceptions of safety, physical disorder in the 
area, and source of information about crime in the commercial center.

Tags: commercial-districts, crime, economic-conditions
Organization: Department of Justice
Concerns of Police Survivors, 1986:  [United States]

This data collection was designed to assess the impact of
 line-of-duty deaths of law enforcement officers on their family
 members in terms of the psychological, emotional, and financial
 effects. To assess the impact of the traumatic event, a wide variety
 of clinical and psychiatric measures of psychological disorder were
 employed. The data are stored in two files. Included in the first file
 are variables concerning the respondent's personal characteristics
 such as age, sex, ethnic origin, marital status, educational level,
 relationship to deceased officer, and employment. Also included are
 experiences and emotional reactions to the death of the officer and
 clinical symptoms of psychological distress. The file also offers
 information on the deceased officer's demographic characteristics such
 as age at time of death, sex, ethnic origin, educational level, number
 of times married, and number of years in law enforcement, as well as
 the date and time of the incident. The second file contains variables
 on the respondent's relationship with friends and relatives before and
 after the traumatic event, behavioral changes of survivors' children
 following the death, financial impacts on survivors, and satisfaction
with treatment and responses received from police departments.

Tags: attitudes-toward-death, families, grief, police-deaths, police-officers, psychological-wellbeing
Organization: Department of Justice
Repeat Offender Laws in the United States:  Forms, Uses, and Perceived Value, 1983

This survey of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges in
jurisdictions with sentence enhancement statutes for repeat offenders
collected information about the characteristics of the laws and
criminal justice professionals regarding the fairness, effectiveness,
and practice of the laws. The jurisdiction file includes variables such
as jurisdiction size, number of provisions in the law, number of felony
cases handled under the law per year, number of defendants sentenced as
repeat offenders, frequency of charging and sentencing under the law,
and minimum and maximum sentences specified in the statutes. The
variables in the three surveys of practitioners contain data related to
their familiarity with the laws, descriptions of recent cases, and
satisfaction with the new statutes.

Tags: attorneys, criminal-justice-system, felony-offenses, judges, jurisdiction, prosecuting-attorneys, recidivists, sentencing
Organization: Department of Justice
Helping Crime Victims:  Levels of Trauma and Effectiveness of Services in Arizona, 1983-1984

This data collection was designed to gauge the impact of a 
 victim assistance program on the behavior and attitudes of victims and 
 to evaluate the program as assessed by police and prosecutors. Program 
 impact was estimated by examining the change in psychological, social, 
 and financial conditions of the victims following the service 
 intervention. Three types of victim service conditions can be compared: 
 crisis intervention service, delayed assistance service, and no 
 service. The victim files contain information on the victim's 
 demographic characteristics, various kinds of psychological indicators 
 and stress symptoms following the incident, respondent's assessments of 
 impacts of victimization on social activity, family, job, and financial 
 conditions. The follow-up files have information on the victims' 
 financial and emotional state some time after the incident. The police 
 files include respondent's personal background, types and frequency of 
 victim-witness services used, and opinions about contacts with police. 
 The prosecutor files include variables relating to personal background 
and satisfaction with the court system.

Tags: attitudes, intervention, personal-finances, program-evaluation, psychological-wellbeing, social-indicators, stress, victim-services, victimization, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Illegal Immigration and Crime in San Diego and El Paso Counties, 1985-1986

This study was conducted to examine whether a rising crime 
 rate in El Paso, Texas and San Diego, California in 1986 could be 
 attributed to, among other factors, the influx of undocumented aliens. 
 Variables include level of involvement of undocumented aliens in 
 serious felony arrests in San Diego and El Paso Counties, the outcome 
 of serious felony arrest cases involving undocumented persons compared 
 to others arrested for similar offenses, the impact of arrests of 
 undocumented aliens on the criminal justice system in terms of workload 
 and cost, the extent that criminal justice agencies coordinate their 
 efforts to apprehend and process undocumented aliens who have committed 
 serious crimes in San Diego and El Paso counties, and how differences 
 in agency objectives impede or enhance coordination. Data are also 
 provided on how many undocumented persons were arrested/convicted for 
 repeat offense in these counties and which type of policies or 
 procedures could be implemented in criminal justice agencies to address 
 the issue of crimes committed by undocumented aliens. Data were 
 collected in the two cities with focus on serious felony offenses. The 
 collection includes sociodemographic characteristics, citizenship 
 status, current arrest, case disposition, and prior criminal history 
 with additional data from San Diego to compute the costs involving 
undocumented aliens.

Tags: arrests, crime-rates, criminal-justice-system, felony-offenses, illegal-immigrants, immigration
Organization: Department of Justice