AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
National Survey of Residential Group Care Facilities for Children and Youth, 1981

This survey covers facilities for children and youth who are 
 considered to be dependent and neglected, delinquent, emotionally 
 disturbed, mentally ill, in detention or under supervision (status 
 offenders), and/or in need of temporary shelter or emergency care, or 
 in need of services due to pregnancy or use of an illegal substance. 
 The survey was designed to gather information about programs and 
 services that most types of residential care facilities provide, 
 regardless of function, rather than about those specific to a single 
 type of residential care. Information provided about each facility 
 includes the problems, conditions, and patterns of behavior of their 
 residents, the treatment programs for them, and the extent of their 
 participation in community activities. Questionnaires were sent to the 
 directors of all qualifying facilities. Telephone interviews were 
 conducted with those directors who did not respond to the 
questionnaire.
Juvenile Court Statistics, 1990: [United States]

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the 
 volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1990 by courts having jurisdiction 
 over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency 
 cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought 
 before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source 
 of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by 
 juvenile courts. It is the most detailed information available on youth 
 who come in contact with the juvenile justice system and on the 
 activities of the nation's juvenile courts. Information is provided on 
 state, county, number of delinquency cases, number of status offense 
 cases, number of dependency cases, and total number of cases. The data 
distinguish cases with and without the filing of a petition.
Juvenile Court Statistics, 1991: [United States]

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the 
 volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1991 by courts having jurisdiction 
 over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency 
 cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought 
 before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source 
 of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by 
 juvenile courts. It is the most detailed information available on youth 
 who come in contact with the juvenile justice system and on the 
 activities of the nation's juvenile courts. Information is provided on 
 state, county, number of delinquency cases, number of status offense 
 cases, number of dependency cases, and total number of cases. The data 
distinguish cases with and without the filing of a petition.
Juvenile Court Statistics, 1992:  [United States]

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the 
 volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1992 by courts having jurisdiction 
 over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency 
 cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought 
 before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source 
 of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by 
 juvenile courts. It is the most detailed information available on youth 
 who come in contact with the juvenile justice system and on the 
 activities of the nation's juvenile courts. Information is provided on 
 state, county, number of delinquency cases, number of status offense 
 cases, number of dependency cases, and total number of cases. The data 
distinguish cases with and without the filing of a petition.
Pittsburgh Youth Study Youngest Sample (1987 - 2001) [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1986. PYS aims to document the development of antisocial and delinquent behavior from childhood to early adulthood, the risk factors that impinge on that development, and help seeking and service provision of boys' behavior problems. The study also focuses on boys' development of alcohol and drug use, and internalizing problems.
PYS consists of three samples of boys who were in the first, fourth, and seventh grades in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania public schools during the 1987-1988 academic year (called the youngest, middle, and oldest sample, respectively). Using a screening risk score that measured each boy's antisocial behavior, boys identified at the top 30 percent within each grade sample on the screening risk measure (n=~250), as well as an equal number of boys randomly selected from the remainder (n=~250), were selected for follow-up. Consequently, the final sample for the study consisted of 1,517 total students selected for follow-up. 506 of these students were in the oldest sample, 508 were in the middle sample, and 503 were in the youngest sample.
Assessments were conducted semiannually and then annually using multiple informants (i.e., boys, parents, teachers) between 1987 and 2010. The youngest sample was assessed from ages 6-19 and again at ages 25 and 28.  The middle sample was assessed from ages 9-13 and again at age 23.  The oldest sample was assessed from ages 13-25, with an additional assessment at age 35.  Information has been collected on a broad range of risk and protective factors across multiple domains (e.g., individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood).  Measures of conduct problems, substance use/abuse, criminal behavior, mental health problems have been collected.
This study collection contains only the youngest sample respondents.
Pittsburgh Youth Study Middle Sample (1987 - 1991) [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1986. PYS aims to document the development of antisocial and delinquent behavior from childhood to early adulthood, the risk factors that impinge on that development, and help seeking and service provision of boys' behavior problems. The study also focuses on boys' development of alcohol and drug use, and internalizing problems.
PYS consists of three samples of boys who were in the first, fourth, and seventh grades in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania public schools during the 1987-1988 academic year (called the youngest, middle, and oldest sample, respectively). Using a screening risk score that measured each boy's antisocial behavior, boys identified at the top 30 percent within each grade sample on the screening risk measure (n=~250), as well as an equal number of boys randomly selected from the remainder (n=~250), were selected for follow-up. Consequently, the final sample for the study consisted of 1,517 total students selected for follow-up. 506 of these students were in the oldest sample, 508 were in the middle sample, and 503 were in the youngest sample.
Assessments were conducted semiannually and then annually using multiple informants (i.e., boys, parents, teachers) between 1987 and 2010. The youngest sample was assessed from ages 6-19 and again at ages 25 and 28.  The middle sample was assessed from ages 9-13 and again at age 23.  The oldest sample was assessed from ages 13-25, with an additional assessment at age 35.  Information has been collected on a broad range of risk and protective factors across multiple domains (e.g., individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood).  Measures of conduct problems, substance use/abuse, criminal behavior, mental health problems have been collected.
This study collection contains only the middle sample respondents.
Pittsburgh Youth Study Oldest Sample (1987 - 2000) [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1986. PYS aims to document the development of antisocial and delinquent behavior from childhood to early adulthood, the risk factors that impinge on that development, and help seeking and service provision of boys' behavior problems. The study also focuses on boys' development of alcohol and drug use, and internalizing problems.
PYS consists of three samples of boys who were in the first, fourth, and seventh grades in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania public schools during the 1987-1988 academic year (called the youngest, middle, and oldest sample, respectively). Using a screening risk score that measured each boy's antisocial behavior, boys identified at the top 30 percent within each grade sample on the screening risk measure (n=~250), as well as an equal number of boys randomly selected from the remainder (n=~250), were selected for follow-up. Consequently, the final sample for the study consisted of 1,517 total students selected for follow-up. 506 of these students were in the oldest sample, 508 were in the middle sample, and 503 were in the youngest sample.
Assessments were conducted semiannually and then annually using multiple informants (i.e., boys, parents, teachers) between 1987 and 2010. The youngest sample was assessed from ages 6-19 and again at ages 25 and 28.  The middle sample was assessed from ages 9-13 and again at age 23.  The oldest sample was assessed from ages 13-25, with an additional assessment at age 35.  Information has been collected on a broad range of risk and protective factors across multiple domains (e.g., individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood).  Measures of conduct problems, substance use/abuse, criminal behavior, mental health problems have been collected.
This study collection contains only the oldest sample respondents.
Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, 2013 [United States]

The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP), conducted every other year, asks juvenile residential custody facilities in the United States to describe all youth assigned a bed in the facility on a specified reference date. In 2013, the reference date was Wednesday, October 23 (the fourth Wednesday in October).
Each record in the data provides information on a juvenile in a residential facility on the reference date, including information on placement (e.g. placing agency), the judicial process (e.g. court adjudication status), and demographics (e.g. age). Each record that provides information about a juvenile also includes information about institutional characteristics (e.g. facility type, use of locked doors or gates), treatment services, and population of the facility in which the juvenile was held. Therefore, CJRP data can be analyzed at the individual or facility level.
The census was not sent to adult facilities or to facilities exclusively for drug or mental health treatment or for abused or neglected children. Some state and regional agencies provide CJRP data for more than one facility under their jurisdiction.
Denver Youth Survey Waves 1-5, (1988-1992) [Denver, Colorado]

The Denver Youth Survey (DYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1986. The DYS is a longitudinal study of problem and successful behavior over the life course that focuses on delinquency, drug use, victimization, and mental health. The DYS is based on a probability sample of households in "high-risk" neighborhoods of Denver, Colorado. These neighborhoods were selected on the basis of their social ecology in terms of population and housing characteristics. Only socially disorganized neighborhoods with high official crime rates (top one-third) were included. The survey respondents include 1,528 children and youth who were 7, 9, 11, 13, or 15 years old in 1987, and one of their parents, who lived in one of the more than 20,000 randomly selected households.
The survey respondents include 807 boys and 721 girls and include White (10 percent), Latino (45 percent), and African American (33 percent) youth, as well as 12 percent from other racial/ethnic backgrounds. The child and youth respondents, along with one caretaker, were interviewed annually from 1988 until 1992, and annually from 1995 until 1999. The age range covered by the study is from age 7 through age 26.
The dataset contains 1,528 cases and 22,081 variables.
Denver Youth Survey Waves 6-11 (1993-2003) [Denver, Colorado]

The Denver Youth Survey (DYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1986. It is a longitudinal study of problem and successful behavior over the life course that focuses on delinquency, drug use, victimization, and mental health. DYS variables also address family demographics, neighborhood characteristics, parenting, and involvement in social roles.
The DYS is based on a probability sample of households in "high-risk" neighborhoods of Denver, Colorado. These neighborhoods were selected on the basis of their social ecology in terms of population and housing characteristics. Only socially disorganized neighborhoods with high (top one-third) official crime rates were included. The survey respondents include 1,528 children and youth who were 7, 9, 11, 13, or 15 years old in 1987, and one of their parents, who lived in one of the more than 20,000 randomly selected households.
The survey respondents include 807 boys and 721 girls and include White (10%), Latino (45%), and African American (33%) youth, as well as 12% from other racial/ethnic backgrounds. The child and youth respondents, along with one caretaker, were interviewed annually from 1988 until 1992 (waves 1-5), annually from 1995 until 1999 (waves 6-10), and in 2003 (wave 11). The study covers an age range of 7 through 26.
Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2012 [United States]

The Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC), which is conducted biennially, collects basic information on juvenile residential facility characteristics, including security, capacity and crowding, injuries and deaths in custody, and facility ownership and operation. The JRFC also includes questions about facility type (such as detention center, training school, ranch, or group home) and residential services provided by the facility (such as independent living, foster care, or other arrangements).

In 2012, the JRFC was divided into four sections:

General facility information
Events in the 30 days prior to the census reference date
Deaths in the year prior to the census reference date
Space shared with other facilities

Congress requires the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to report annually on the number of deaths of juveniles in custody; the JRFC gathers this information and offers a portrait of the nation's juvenile facilities. The census reference date was the fourth Wednesday in October.
Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2014 [United States]

The Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC), which is conducted biennially, collects basic information on juvenile residential facility characteristics, including security, capacity and crowding, injuries and deaths in custody, and facility ownership and operation. The JRFC also includes questions about facility type (such as detention center, training school, ranch, or group home) and residential services provided by the facility (such as independent living, foster care, or other arrangements), and detailed questions about mental health, substance abuse, and educational services provided to young persons.
In 2014, the JRFC was divided into seven sections:

General facility information
Mental health services
Educational services
Substance abuse services
Events in the 30 days prior to the census reference date
Deaths in the year prior to the census reference date
Space shared with other facilities

Congress requires the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to report annually on the number of deaths of juveniles in custody; the JRFC gathers this information and offers a portrait of the nation's juvenile facilities. The census reference date was the fourth Wednesday in October.
Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade, United States, 2008-2014

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 multi-method, multi-site study aimed to increase scientific knowledge on the population size, needs, characteristics, and criminal justice experiences of youth who are involved in exchanging sex for money, food, housing, drugs, or other goods. Youth interviews were conducted in each of six geographically diverse research sites, as well as interviews with social service and law enforcement agency staff in four of the sites. In addition, state-level data on prostitution arrests of youth under the age of 18 and case-level data on prostitution arrests of youth under the age of 24 in the six research sites were obtained, but are not included in this collection.
The collection includes one SPSS data file, Youth_in_the_Sex_Trade_Final_Quantitative_Dataset.sav (n=949, vars= 88).
The qualitative data are not available as part of this collection at this time.
National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART), [United States], 2011 

The National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART) were undertaken in response to the mandate of the 1984 Missing Children's Assistance Act (Pub.L. 98-473) that requires the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to conduct periodic national incidence studies to determine the actual number of children reported missing and the number of missing children who are recovered for a given year. The third installment, NISMART-3, was undertaken in 2011 and is comprised of three components; an adult household survey, a survey of juvenile facilities and a survey of law enforcement. It was designed to provide a comprehensive picture of the population dealing with missing children issues and each component focusing on a different aspect of that population namely; the general population, law enforcement and juvenile detention centers across the country. Due to low response rates the data from the youth supplement to the household survey and the juvenile detention center data are unavailable and are not provided here.
National Evaluation of the Safe Start Promising Approaches Initiative, 2011-2016

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 Safe Start Promising Approaches for Children Exposed to Violence Initiative funded 10 sites to implement and evaluate programs to improve outcomes for children exposed to violence. RAND conducted the national evaluation of these programs, in collaboration with the sites and a national evaluation team, to focus on child-level outcomes. The dataset includes data gathered at the individual family-level at baseline, 6-, 12-months. All families were engaged in experimental or quasi-experimental studies comparing the Safe Start intervention to enhanced services-as-usual, alternative services, a wait-list control group, or a comparable comparison group of families that did not receive Safe Start services. Data sources for the outcome evaluation were primary caregiver interviews, child interviews (for ages 8 and over), and family/child-level service utilization data provided by the Safe Start program staff.
Research on Pathways to Desistance Series


The Pathways
to Desistance study is a multi-site, longitudinal study of serious
adolescent offenders as they transition from adolescence into early
adulthood. Between November, 2000 and January, 2003, 1,354 adjudicated
youths from the juvenile and adult court systems in Maricopa County
(Phoenix), Arizona (N = 654) and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (N
= 700) were enrolled into the study.The enrolled youth were at
least 14 years old and under 18 years old at the time of their
committing offense and were found guilty of a serious offense
(predominantly felonies, with a few exceptions for some misdemeanor
property offenses, sexual assault, or weapons offenses).Each
study participant was followed for a period of seven years past
enrollment, with the end result a comprehensive picture of life
changes in a wide array of areas over the course of this
time.The study sought to inform the ongoing debate in the
juvenile justice system regarding the treatment and processing of
serious adolescent offenders. The larger aim of the Pathways series is
to improve decision-making by court and social service personnel and
to clarify policy debates about alternatives for serious adolescent
offenders.Additional datasets from the Pathways study will be
released during 2013. These datasets will include
official records information (e.g. re-arrest, placement), and monthly
life-calendar data on a range of topics (e.g.  school, work). These
additional datasets will not be publicly available, but rather made
available through ICPSR's restricted data access system.For
more information, please visit the Research on Pathways to
Desistance web site.