AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Criminal Justice Response to Victim Harm in the United States, 1981

This data collection examines the ways in which victim harm 
 affects decisions regarding arrest, prosecution, and sentencing, and 
 the impact of these decisions on the victim's perception of the 
 criminal justice system. Five types of offenses were studied: homicide, 
 sexual assault, burglary, robbery, and aggravated assault. The victim 
 file contains information on personal characteristics, results of 
 victimization, involvement in case processing, use of victim assistance 
 service, satisfaction with case outcomes, and opinions about the court 
 system. The police file and the prosecutor file variables cover 
 personal background, screening decisions on scenario cases, 
 communication with victims, and opinions about the role of victims in 
 the criminal justice system. The prosecutor file also includes 
 sentencing recommendations on the scenarios. Data in the judge file 
 cover personal background, sentencing recommendations on the scenario 
 cases, communications with victims, sources of information regarding 
 victim harm, and opinions about the role of victims in the criminal 
justice system.
Early Identification of the Chronic Offender, [1978-1980:  California]   

Patterns of adult criminal behavior are examined in this 
 data collection. Data covering the adult years of peak criminal 
 activity (from approximately 18 to 26 years of age) were obtained from 
 samples of delinquent youths who had been incarcerated in three 
 California Youth Authority institutions during the 1960s: Preston, 
 Fricot, and the Northern California Youth Center. Data were obtained 
 from three sources: official arrest records of the California Bureau of 
 Criminal Investigation and Identification (CII), supplementary data 
 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the California Bureau of 
 Vital Statistics. Follow-up data were collected between 1978 and 1981. 
 There are two files per sample site. The first is a background data 
 file containing information obtained while the subjects were housed in 
 Youth Authority institutions, and the second is a follow-up history 
 offense file containing data from arrest records. Each individual is 
 identified by a unique ID number, which is the same in the background 
and offense history files.
Crime Days Precursors Study:  Baltimore, 1952-1976

This data collection focuses on 354 male narcotic addicts
 who were selected using a stratified random sample from a population
 of 6,149 known narcotic abusers arrested or identified by the
 Baltimore, Maryland, Police Department between 1952 and
 1976. Variables include respondent's use of controlled drugs,
 including marijuana, hallucinogens, amphetamines, barbiturates,
 codeine, heroin, methadone, cocaine, tranquilizers, and other
 narcotics. Also of interest is the respondent's past criminal activity
 including arrests, length of incarceration, educational attainment,
 employment history, personal income, mobility, and drug treatment, if
any.
Effectiveness of Police Response: Denver, 1982

This data collection investigates the nature of law
 enforcement by recording police behavior in problematic situations,
 primarily disturbances and traffic stops. The data collection contains
 two files. The first consists of information on disturbance
 encounters. Disturbance variables include type of disturbance, manner
 of investigation, designation of police response, several situational
 variables such as type of setting, number of victims, bystanders,
 suspects, and witnesses, demeanor of participants toward the police,
 type of police response, and demeanor of police toward
 participants. The second file contains data on traffic offenses. The
 variables include manner of investigation, incident code, officers'
 description of the incident, condition of the vehicle stopped, police
 contact with the passengers of the vehicle, demeanor of passengers
 toward the police, demeanor of police toward the passengers, and
 resolution of the situation. The data were collected based on field
observation, using an instrument for recording observations.
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN):  Systematic Social Observation, 1995    

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
 (PHDCN) was a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families,
 schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development.
 One component of the PHDCN was the Systematic Social Observation
 (SSO). The SSO was a standardized approach for directly observing the
 physical, social, and economic characteristics of neighborhoods, one
 block at a time. In 1995, the PHDCN initiated a combined person-based
 and videotaped approach to collecting systematic observations of
 neighborhoods. Eighty of the 343 Neighborhood Clusters were used in
 this study. Once the sampling was complete, the block face (the block
 segment on one side of the street) became the unit of observation.
 Using videotape and observer logs, data were collected in the 80
 sampled Chicago neighborhoods. Only a sample of block faces were
 selected for coding due to budget expenses. The National Opinion
 Research Center (NORC) collected the data for the SSO. Between June
 and October of 1995, trained observers from NORC drove a sports
 utility vehicle down every block within the 80 sampled neighborhoods.
 A videographer videotaped both sides of each block, while two
 observers recorded characteristics of each block face on observer
 logs. Further coding of the videotapes and observer logs was conducted
by NORC staff.
Impact of the No Early Release Act (NERA) on Prosecution and Sentencing in New Jersey, 1996-2000   

This study examined New Jersey's No Early Release Act
(NERA), which became effective in 1997. NERA required that offenders
convicted of violent crimes serve at least 85 percent of their
sentences before becoming eligible for parole. This study's primary
goal was to determine whether prosecutors changed their charging and
plea bargaining practices in order to obtain sentences under NERA that
were roughly equivalent to those imposed before NERA. Data were
obtained from the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts for
1996 to May 2000. These data included every case in which a crime
covered by the No Early Release Act was charged and, for comparison,
every case involving a burglary charge, a charge not covered by
NERA. These data cover defendants' progress through the New Jersey
court system, including the initial charge, indictment, and
sentencing.
Assessing the Delivery of Community Policing Services in Ada County, Idaho, 2002

This study was conducted to explore the ways that enable
 the Ada County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) to examine its behavior in five
 areas that embody its adoption of community policing elements: (1)
 periodic assessments of citizens' perceptions of crime and police
 services, (2) substation policing, (3) patrol based in
 problem-oriented identification and resolution, (4) performance
 evaluation in a community-oriented policing (COP)/problem-oriented
 policing (POP) environment, and (5) the building of community
 partnerships. The researchers strived to obtain both transitive and
 recursive effects. One of the goals of this project was to facilitate
 the ACSO's efforts toward self-reflection, and by doing so, become a
 learning organization. In order to do this, data were collected, via
 survey, from both citizens of Ada County and from deputies employed by
 the ACSO. The citizen survey was a random, stratified telephone
 survey, using CATI technology, administered to 761 Ada County
 residents who received patrol services from the ACSO. The survey was
 designed to correspond to a similar survey conducted in 1997
 (DEVELOPING A PROBLEM-ORIENTED POLICING MODEL IN ADA COUNTY, IDAHO,
 1997-1998 [ICPSR 2654]) in the same area regarding similar issues:
 citizens' fear of crime, citizens' satisfaction with police services,
 the extent of public knowledge about and interest in ideas of
 community policing, citizens' police service needs, sheriff's office
 service needs and their views of the community policing mandate. The
 deputy survey was a self-enumerated questionnaire administered to 54
 deputies and sergeants of the ACSO during a pre-arranged, regular
 monthly training. This survey consisted of four sections: the
 deputies' perception of crime problems, rating of the deputy
 performance evaluation, ethical issues in policing, and departmental
relations.
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women's Labor Force Participation in Illinois, 1999-2002


The first goal of this study was to identify the incidence of partner violence among Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients over a three-year period. The second goal of this study was to examine the impact of partner violence on women's labor force participation over time. A final goal of this research was to explore the short and longer-term consequences of victimization on women's employment and economic well-being, as well as their physical and mental health.


This study used the first three years of data from the Illinois Families Study (IFS). The first of the annual surveys was administered between November 1999 and September 2000, the second between February 2001 and September 2001, and the third between February 2002 and September 2002.


The three data files contain very similar information including such items as a household roster, housing and neighborhood characteristics, employment, literacy and skills, parenting, and children. There is also information related to the respondent's history, health, self-efficacy, life events, experiences with domestic violence, civic participation and social support, income resources, and experiences with welfare.


The Part 1 (Wave 1 Data) data file contains 1,323 cases and 942 variables.
The Part 2 (Wave 2 Data) data file contains 1,183 cases and 763 variables.
The Part 3 (Wave 3 Data) data file contains 1,072 cases and 778 variables.

Additional information about the Illinois Families Study (IFS) is available on the IFS Web site.
Rural and Urban Trends in Family and Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States, 1980-1999  

This research project examined rural and urban trends in
family and intimate partner homicide for the 20-year period from 1980
through 1999. The construct of place served as a backdrop against
which changes in trends in family/partner homicide were tracked, and
against which various independent measures that purportedly explain
variation in the rates were tested. The project merged data from
several sources. The offender data file from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's (FBI) Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) series for
1980 through 1999 was the primary data source. Data for arrests for
violent crime, drug, and alcohol-related offenses were obtained from
the FBI Report A Arrest File. Population, population density, and race
(and racial segregation) data from the decennial U.S. Census for 1980,
1990, and 2000 were also obtained. Data on hospitals, educational
attainment, unemployment, and per capita income were obtained from the
2002 Area Resource File (ARF). The total number of proprietors (farm
and non-farm) in the United States by state and county for each year
were provided by the Regional Economic Profiles data. The project's
population and proximity indicator used four categories: metropolitan,
nonmetropolitan populations adjacent to a metropolitan area,
nonmetropolitan populations not adjacent to a metropolitan area, and
rural. Data include homicide rates for 1980 through 1999 for intimate
partner homicide, family homicide, all other homicide, and all
homicide. Additional variables are included as measures of community
socioeconomic distress, such as residential overcrowding, isolation,
traditionalist views of women and family, lack of access to health
care, and substance abuse. Five-year averages are included for each of
the rates and measures listed above.
Evaluation of the Tribal Strategies Against Violence (TSAV) Initiative in Four Tribal Sites in the United States, 1995-1999

This study evaluated the Tribal Strategies Against Violence
 (TSAV) Initiative. The TSAV was a federal-tribal partnership, lasting
 from 1995 to 1999, designed to develop comprehensive strategies in
 tribal communities to reduce crime, violence, and substance abuse.
 This study involved four of the seven TSAV sites: the Chickasaw Nation
 in Oklahoma, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in Montana, the
 Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Michigan, and
 the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota. A survey
 of TSAV stakeholders at the four sites was conducted in the summer and
 fall of 1999. The objectives of the survey were to gauge TSAV
 stakeholders' perceptions about the following: (1) the serious crime,
 violence, and quality of life issues in each community and the extent
 to which the local TSAV initiative had addressed those issues, (2) the
 intent and ultimate outcomes of the TSAV program, (3) obstacles to
 successful implementation of TSAV activities, and (4) decision-making
 processes used in planning and implementing TSAV locally. Offense data
 were also gathered at the Fort Peck site for 1995 to 1998 and at the
Grand Traverse Band site for 1997 to 1999.
Spatial Analysis of Rare Crimes:  Homicides in Chicago, Illinois, 1989-1991

This project's main goal was to develop an analytical
 framework that could be used for analysis of rare crimes observed at
 local (intra-city) levels of geographic aggregation. To demonstrate the
 application of this framework to a real-world issue, this project
 analyzed the occurrence of different types of homicide at both the
 census tract and neighborhood cluster level in Chicago. Homicide counts
 for Chicago's 865 census tracts for 1989-1991 were obtained from
 HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO, 1965-1995 (ICPSR 6399), Part 1: Victim Level Data.
 The types of homicide examined were gang-related, instrumental,
 family-related expressive, known person expressive, stranger expressive,
 and other. Demographic and socioeconomic data at the census tract level
 for the year 1990 were obtained from the Neighborhood Change Database
 (NCDB) at the Urban Institute. Part 1 contains these data, as initially
 obtained, at the census tract level. Part 2 contains an aggregated
 version of the same data for Chicago's 343 neighborhood clusters as
defined by the Project on Human Development in Chicago's Neighborhoods.
North Carolina Highway Traffic Study, 2000-2001

This study investigated whether the North Carolina State
Highway Patrol (NCSHP) practiced racial profiling. The NCSHP provided
data on all vehicular stops (Parts 1 and 2), written warnings (Part
3), and citations (Part 4) its officers issued in 2000. This included
data on what the stops or tickets were for, the race, sex, and age of
the driver, and the make, model, and year of the car being driven.
Data on accidents in 2000 (Part 5), also obtained from the NCSHP, were
used to examine whether there were racial disparities in unsafe
driving practices. These data included information about what caused
the accident and the race, sex, and age of the driver. The NCSHP also
supplied data on all officers who worked for the NCSHP in 2000 (Part
6), including their race, age, and rank. The data in Part 6 can be
linked to the data in Parts 3 and 4. In addition, two surveys of North
Carolina drivers were conducted to gather information on reported
typical driving behaviors that may influence the probability of being
stopped, and to gather information about stops conducted by law
enforcement agencies across the state. One was conducted using a
sample of North Carolina drivers who had recently renewed their
licenses (Part 7), and the other used a sample of North Carolina
drivers who were ticketed for speeding between June 1, 1999, and June
1, 2000 (Part 8).
Evaluation of Waiver Effects in Maryland, 1998-2000    

The purpose of this research was to assist policymakers in
 determining if the targeted youths affected by the waiver laws passed
 by the Maryland legislature in 1994 and 1998 were being processed as
 intended. The waiver laws were enacted to ensure that a youth who was
 unwilling to comply with treatment and/or committed a serious offense
 would have a serious consequence to his/her action and, therefore,
 would be processed in the adult system. As a result of the
 legislation, four pathways of court processing emerged which created
 four groups of youths to study: at-risk of waiver (not waived),
 waiver, legislative waiver, and reverse waver. A variety of data
 sources in both the juvenile and adult systems were triangulated to
 obtain the necessary information to accurately describe the youths
 involved. The triangulation of data from multiple file sources
 happened in a variety of formats (automated, hardcopy, and electronic
 files) from a variety of agencies to compare and contrast youths
 processed in the juvenile and adult systems. The five legislative
 criteria (age, mental and physical condition, amenability to
 treatment, crime seriousness, and public safety) plus extra-legal data
 were used as a framework to profile the youths in this study. Many of
 the variables chosen to explore each domain were included in previous
 studies. Other variables, such as those designed to operationalize
 mental health issues (not defined by the legislation) were chosen to
 extend the literature and to generate the most complete profile of
 youths processed in each system. The study includes variables
 pertinent to the five legislative criteria in addition to demographic
 and family information variables such as gender, race, and
 socioeconomic status, information on school expulsions, school
 suspensions, gang involvement, drug history, health, and
hospitalization.
National Evaluation of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant Program, 1998-2002

This study examined the operation of the Juvenile
Accountability Incentive Block Grant program (JAIBG) from fiscal years
1998 through 2000. In order to describe how states implemented the
JAIBG program, this study examined the program's effects on state and
local juvenile justice policies and practices, which included studying
how states awarded the grant funds to localities and for what
purposes, and an assessment of how states changed their policies and
practices during this period. Variables in Part 1 (Juvenile
Accountability Incentive Block Grant (JAIBG) Subgrant Follow-Up
Information Form Data) provide grant information, jurisdiction type,
planning typology of state, amount of funds budgeted for
administrative purposes, and for each of 12 purpose areas, total
amount of funds spent in subgrant, and number of the various entities
involved in juvenile crime prevention. Variables in Part 2 (Fiscal
Year 1998 Supplemental Programmatic Information Form Data) provide
grant information, jurisdiction type, planning typology of state, type
of program, primary purpose of funded programs in each of the 12
purpose areas (if the funds supported a new program in that purpose
area), as well as allocation of funds and total funds in each purpose
area. Variables in Parts 3-5 (Perceptions and Attitudes About the
JAIBG Program Survey Data for JAIBG Subgrant Recipients, Perceptions
and Attitudes About the JAIBG Program Survey Data for State Juvenile
Crime Enforcement Coalition (JCEC) Members, and Perceptions and
Attitudes About the JAIBG Program Survey Data for Local Juvenile Crime
Enforcement Coalition (JCEC) Members) provide state, planning typology
of state, and recipient's professional affiliations (by category). The
surveys also included questions to measure the recipient's
satisfaction with the JAIBG program and the funding received. Data
available in this collection were obtained from the following two
sources: (1) data collected by Follow-Up Information Forms (FIFs) for
fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000 (Part 1), and (2) mail survey data
collected by Abt Associates Inc., which included: programmatic and
financial data for a sample of fiscal year 1998 programs (Part 2),
attitudinal and opinion surveys of a sample of subgrant recipients
(Part 3), state Juvenile Crime Enforcement Coalition (JCEC) members
(Part 4), and a sample of local JCEC members (Part 5).
Measure 11 Sentencing Reform in Oregon: Implementation and System Impact, 1990-1999

This study explored the implementation and impact of
Measure 11 (passed by Oregon voters in 1994), which imposed long
mandatory prison terms for 16 designated violent and sex-related
offenses, prohibited "earned time," and provided for mandatory waiver
of youthful offenders to adult court. Measure 11 penalties were longer
than those imposed under sentencing guidelines. Juveniles aged 15
years or older were also subject to the measure. The researchers
addressed the implementation and impact of the measure on prosecution,
sentencing, and convictions, both statewide and in three separate
counties based on the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission (OCJC) data
and the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) data. Variables
include offender characteristics, plea trial information, number of
convictions, prison term for convictions, severity of offense,
M11-eligible and alternate offense, and description of most severe
offense.