AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs Series



The Census of
Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs (CPFFCL) was first conducted in
2003 to capture data on the 2002 workload and operations of the 351
publicly funded crime labs operating that year. It is produced every
three or four years since it was first conducted. The CPFFCL includes
all state, county, municipal, and federal crime labs that (1) are
solely funded by government or whose parent organization is a
government agency and (2) employ at least one full-time natural
scientist who examines physical evidence in criminal matters and
provides reports and opinion testimony with respect to such physical
evidence in courts of law. For example, this includes DNA testing and
controlled substance identification for federal, state, and local
jurisdictions. Some publicly funded crime labs are part of a multi-lab
system. The census attempted to collect information from each lab in
the system. Police identification units, although sometimes
responsible for fingerprint analysis, and privately operated
facilities were not included in the census.
Prison Rape Elimination Act Data Series



The Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) collects and analyzes data on the incidence
and effects of sexual violence in prisons and jails. The data, in
various datasets, are collected from individuals currently and
formerly in federal, state, county, and municipal facilities.  The
data are collected using a multiple-measure, multiple-mode data
collection strategy. Data sets in this series include surveys and
other statistical studies, including the National Inmate Survey (NIS),
the Former Prisoner Survey (FPS), and the National Survey of Youth in
Custody
(NSYC).
Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) Series (Formerly Deaths In Custody Reporting Program (DCRP))



The Mortality In Correctional Institutions (MCI) data collection (formerly Deaths in
Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)), collects quarterly inmate death
records from each of the nation's 50 state prison systems, 50 state
juvenile correctional authorities, and 3,095 local jails. In addition,
the program collects quarterly records of all deaths during the
process of arrest by each of the nation's 17,784 state and local law
enforcement agencies. These death records include information on the
deceased's personal characteristics (age, gender and race/ethnicity),
their criminal background (legal status, offense types, length of stay
in custody), and details of the death itself (the date, time,
location and cause of each death, as well as information on autopsies
and medical treatment provided for illnesses/diseases).
Census of Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices (MECO) Series


The Census
of medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices (MECO) is a compilation of
data on the practices of these offices, which are responsible for
medical-legal death investigations. The data cover information such as
the prevalence of unidentified human remains on record in medical
examiners' and coroners' offices across the country, record-keeping
practices, and final disposition practices such as burial, cremation,
or other means. In addition, data are included regarding FTE
employees, contractors, and annual
budgets.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) Series



In 1992, the National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC), a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), established an interagency agreement with the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)to begin collecting data
on nonfatal firearm-related injuries by using the National Electronic
Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), the primary data system of CPSC.
This ongoing special study is commonly called the "CDC Firearm Injury
Surveillance Study".  These data provide the basis for national
estimates of nonfatal firearm-related injuries and nonfatal BB/pellet
gun-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the
United States.  Beginning in July 2000, NCIPC, in collaboration with
CPSC, expanded NEISS to collect data on all types and causes of
injuries treated in a representative sample of hospitals.  This system
is called the "NEISS All Injury Program (NEISS AIP)".  These data
provide the basis for national estimates of all types of nonfatal
injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United
States.
United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems Series



Investigator(s): United Nations Office at Vienna, R.W. Burnham, Helen
Burnham, Bruce DiCristina, and Graeme Newman
The United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends 
and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (formerly known as 
the United Nations World Crime Surveys) series was begun in 
1978 and is comprised of five quinquennial surveys covering the 
years 1970-1975, 1975-1980, 1980-1986, 1986-1990, and 1990-1994. 
The project was supported by the United States Bureau of Justice 
Statistics, and conducted under the auspices of the United Nations 
Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention Branch, United Nations Office 
in Vienna. Data gathered on crime prevention and criminal justice 
among member nations provide information for policy development 
and program planning. The main objectives of the survey include: 
to conduct a more focused inquiry into the incidence of crime 
worldwide, to improve knowledge about the incidence of reported crime
in the global development perspective and also international 
understanding of effective ways to counteract crime, to improve the 
dissemination globally of the information collected, to facilitate an 
overview of trends and interrelationships among various parts of the 
criminal justice system so as to promote informed decision-making in 
its administration, nationally and cross-nationally, and to serve as an 
instrument for strengthening cooperation among member states by putting 
the review and analysis of national crime-related data in a broader 
context. The surveys also provide a valuable source of charting trends 
in crime and criminal justice over two decades.
School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2006

The School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) is managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on behalf of the United States Department of Education (ED). SSOCS collects extensive crime and safety data from principals and school administrators of United States public schools. Data from this collection can be used to examine the relationship between school characteristics and violent and serious violent crimes in primary schools, middle schools, high schools, and combined schools. In addition, data from SSOCS can be used to assess what crime prevention programs, practices, and policies are used by schools. SSOCS has been conducted in school years 1999-2000, 2003-2004, and 2005-2006. A fourth collection is planned for school year 2007-2008. SSOCS:2006 was conducted by the United States Census Bureau. Data collection began on March 17, 2006, when questionnaire packets were mailed to schools, and continued through May 31, 2006. A total of 2,724 public schools submitted usable questionnaires: 715 primary schools, 948 middle schools, 924 high schools, and 137 combined schools.
Directory of Law Enforcement Agencies Series


Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics
To ensure an accurate sampling frame for its Law 
Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics periodically sponsors a census of the 
nation's state and local law enforcement agencies. This census, known as 
the Directory Survey, gathers data on all police and sheriffs' department 
that are publicly funded and employ at least one full-time or part-time 
sworn officer with general arrest powers. Variables include personnel 
totals, type of agency, geographic location of agency, and whether the 
agency had the legal authority to hold a person beyond arraignment for 
48 or more hours.
Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country Series


Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice
Statistics
This series
was begun in 1998 by the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics
and was collected as a component of the Annual Survey of Jails
(ASJ). The purpose of this data series was to gather data on all adult
and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian
reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and
Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. The survey
provides data on the number of inmates, staffing, and facility
characteristics and operations of all confinement facilities operated
by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA),
United States Department of the Interior.
National Pretrial Reporting Program Series


Investigator(s): Pretrial Services Resource Center
The National Pretrial Reporting Program project 
was initiated in 1983 by the Pretrial Services Resource Center 
with funding from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to determine 
the feasibility of a national pretrial database. Specifically, the project 
sought to determine whether accurate and comprehensive pretrial data 
can be collected at the local level and subsequently aggregated at the 
state and federal levels. Before this project began, there was no 
national system for regularly tracking information on persons and 
cases from the point they entered the local court system until they 
were adjudicated and sentenced, nor was it clear that such a system 
could be established. The project was developed in three phases and 
each phase has taken the program closer to its goal of providing BJS 
with reliable and valid data on the movement of defendants through the 
criminal court system. Phase 1 of the project, though limited to three 
jurisdictions, demonstrated that baseline data could be collected to 
describe how criminal defendants are processed through the courts. 
Phase II of the project not only focused on the collection and 
analyses of the data, but was also concerned with the procedural 
methods necessary to devise a national baseline data collection project. 
Although there were problems encountered and lessons learned in Phase II, 
the findings confirmed that a national effort could be undertaken. In 
the summer of 1987, Phase III of the program was developed. Changes 
incorporated in Phase III were a direct result of the lessons learned 
from Phase II, with the goal of achieving a more accurate and 
representative database. To accomplish this, significant changes were 
made, particularly in four areas: site selection, defendant sampling, 
site personnel training, and targeted charge. A more ambitious project 
was envisioned as well, with the project targeting 40 jurisdictions for 
data collection. Another major change in Phase III concerned the 
decision to target felony defendants only, since many of the ongoing 
BJS projects were limited to felony defendants. The data collected in 
the period 1988-1993 provide a picture of felony defendants' 
movements through the criminal courts and what happens during the course 
of their journey.
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Series

Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) series is a component part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR), a nationwide view of crime administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), based on the submission of crime information by participating law enforcement agencies. The NIBRS was implemented to meet the new guidelines formulated for the UCR to provide new ways of looking at crime for the 21st century. NIBRS is an expanded and enhanced UCR Program, designed to capture incident-level data and data focused on various aspects of a crime incident. The NIBRS was aimed at offering law enforcement and the academic community more comprehensive data than ever before available for management, training, planning, research, and other uses. NIBRS collects data on each single incident and arrest within 22 offense categories made up of 46 specific crimes called Group A offenses. In addition, there are 11 Group B offense categories for which only arrest data are reported. NIBRS data on different aspects of crime incidents such as offenses, victims, offenders, arrestees, etc., can be examined as different units of analysis. The data are archived at ICPSR as 13 separate data files, which may be merged by using linkage variables.
NACJD has prepared a resource guide on NIBRS.
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series


Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) series 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.
All persons in the United States 12 years of age and older were interviewed in each household sampled. 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; severity of the crime; injuries or losses; time and place of occurrence; medical expenses incurred; number, age, race, and sex of offender(s); and relationship of offender(s) to the victim (stranger, casual acquaintance, relative, etc.). Demographic information on household members includes age, sex, race, education, employment, median family income, marital status, and military history. A stratified multistage cluster sample technique was employed, with the person-level files consisting of a full sample of victims and a 10 percent sample of nonvictims for up to four incidents.
The NCVS data are organized by collection quarter, and six quarters comprise an annual file. For example, for a 1979 file, the four quarters of 1979 are included as well as the first two quarters of 1980.
NACJD has prepared a resource guide on NCVS.
Years Produced: Updated annually
Survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies [United States] Series



Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice
Statistics
In 1995, to determine the nature of law enforcement
services provided on campus, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
surveyed four-year institutions of higher education in the United
States with 2,500 or more students. This survey describes nearly 600
of these campus law enforcement agencies in terms of their personnel,
expenditures and pay, operations, equipment, computers and information
systems, policies, and special programs.  The survey was based on the
BJS Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)
program, which collected similar data from a national sample of state
and local law enforcement agencies.
Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Series


Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics
Conducted periodically since 1987, LEMAS collects data from over 3,000 general purpose state and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies. Data obtained include agency responsibilities, operating expenditures, job functions of sworn and civilian employees, officer salaries and special pay, demographic characteristics of officers, weapons and armor policies, education and training requirements, computers and information systems, use of video technology, vehicles, special units, and community policing activities.Years Produced: Periodically since 1987
Expenditure and Employment Data for the Criminal Justice System Series


Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics
These data collections present public expenditure and 
employment data pertaining to criminal justice activities in the United States. 
The data were collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of 
Justice Statistics. Information on employment, payroll, and expenditures is 
provided for police, courts, prosecutors' offices, and corrections agencies. 
Specific variables include identification of each government, number of full- 
and part-time employees, level of full- and part-time payroll, current 
expenditures, capital outlay, and intergovernmental expenditures.
Years Produced: Annually
Related Data

Longitudinal 
File (ICPSR 7636, ICPSR 7618)
Individual Units File and Estimates File (ICPSR 9446, ICPSR 8650)
United States Supreme Court Judicial Database Terms Series


Investigator(s): Harold J. Spaeth, James L. Gibson, Michigan State University
This data collection encompasses all aspects of United 
States Supreme Court decision-making from the beginning of the Warren Court 
in 1953 up to the completion of the 1995 term of the Rehnquist Court on July 
1, 1996, including any decisions made afterward but before the start of the 
1996 term on October 7, 1996. In this collection, distinct aspects of the 
court's decisions are covered by six types of variables: (1) identification 
variables including case citation, docket number, unit of analysis, and number
of records per unit of analysis, (2) background variables offering information
on origin of case, source of case, reason for granting cert, parties to the 
case, direction of the lower court's decision, and manner in which the Court 
takes jurisdiction, (3) chronological variables covering date of term of 
court, chief justice, and natural court, (4) substantive variables including 
multiple legal provisions, authority for decision, issue, issue areas, and 
direction of decision, (5) outcome variables supplying information on form of 
decision, disposition of case, winning party, declaration of 
unconstitutionality, and multiple memorandum decisions, and (6) voting and 
opinion variables pertaining to the vote in the case and to the direction of 
the individual justices' votes.Years Produced: Annually
Organizations Convicted in Federal Criminal Courts Series


Investigator(s): U.S. Sentencing Commission
These data, collected to assist in the development of 
sentencing guidelines, describe offense and sentencing characteristics for 
organizations sentenced in federal district courts. The United States 
Sentencing Commission's primary function is to inform federal courts of 
sentencing policies and practices that include guidelines prescribing the 
appropriate form and severity of punishment for offenders convicted of federal 
crimes. Court-related variables include primary offense type, pecuniary 
offense loss and gain, dates of disposition and sentencing, method of 
determination of guilt, number of counts pled and charged, and dates and types
of sentencing and restitution. Defendant organization variables include 
ownership structure, number of owners and employees, highest level of 
corporate knowledge of the criminal offense, highest level of corporate 
indictment and conviction for participation in the criminal offense, annual 
revenue, equity and financial status of the defendant organization, whether 
it was a criminal organization, duration of criminal activity, and risk to 
national security. Part 1, Organizational Defendants Data, 1988, describes 
offense and sentencing characteristics for organizations sentenced in federal 
district courts in 1988.
Part 2, Organizational Defendants Data, 1989-1990, is a compilation of 
offense and sentencing characteristics for the population of organizations 
sentenced in federal district courts during the period January 1, 1989, to 
June 30, 1990. Part 3, Statute Data, 1989-1990, is a secondary component of 
the Commission's study that includes only the statutes of conviction and 
number of counts per conviction, during the period January 1, 1989, to June 
30, 1990. Part 4, Organizational Defendants Data, 1987-1993, includes all 
organizational defendants sentenced pursuant to the Chapter Two, Part R (1987)
antitrust guidelines and the Chapter Eight (1991) sentencing guidelines for 
organizational defendants that were sentenced between November 1, 1987, 
through September 30, 1993, and were received by the Commission. Part 6, 
Organizational Defendants Data, 1994, gives information on organizational 
defendants sentenced during fiscal year October 1, 1993, through September 30,
1994, and includes culpability scores and Chapter Eight (1991) culpability 
scoring procedures. Part 8, Organizational Defendants Data, 1995, covers 
fiscal year October 1, 1994, through September 30, 1995, and also includes 
culpability scores and Chapter Eight (1991) culpability scoring procedures. 
This file includes 9 defendants sentenced pursuant to Section 2R1.1 (1987) 
and 111 defendants sentenced pursuant to the Chapter Eight guidelines.
Years Produced: Updated annually
Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Police Employee (LEOKA) Data, 2015

The Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data, Police Employee Data, 2015 file contains monthly data on felonious or accidental killings and assaults upon United States law enforcement officers acting in the line of duty. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assembled the data and processed them from UCR Master Police Employee (LEOKA) data tapes.
Each agency record in the file includes the following summary variables: state code, population group code, geographic division, Metropolitan Statistical Area code, and agency name. These variables afford considerable flexibility in creating subsets or aggregations of the data.
Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has compiled the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) to serve as a periodic nationwide assessment of reported crimes not available elsewhere in the criminal justice system. Each year, this information is reported in four types of files: (1) Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest, (2) Property Stolen and Recovered, (3) Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), and (4) Police Employee (LEOKA) Data. The Police Employee (LEOKA) Data provide information about law enforcement officers killed or assaulted (hence the acronym, LEOKA) in the line of duty. The variables created from the LEOKA forms provide in-depth information on the circumstances surrounding killings or assaults, including type of call answered, type of weapon used, and type of patrol the officers were on.
Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, [United States], 2013-2014

This collection contains information on federal criminal cases sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The data files include all cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2013, and were assessed as constitutional. Constitutionality compares each case's sentencing date, circuit, district, and judge to provide uniformity in reporting the cases. In 1999, the United States Sentencing Commission added more variables from its databases to this collection, so the data are now provided in two files. Several variables iterate to include multiple occurrences of the same event. Part 1, Main Data, includes all noniterating variables plus the highest occurrences of each iterating variable. Part 2, Supplementary Data, includes the remaining iterations.