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Citizen Participation and Community Crime Prevention, 1979:  Chicago Metropolitan Area Survey

This survey was conducted as part of the Citizen
 Participation and Community Crime Prevention project at the Center for
 Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University. The
 project was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the wide range
 of activities in which the American public engages to be secure from
 crime. In particular, this survey was designed to identify the scope
 of anti-crime activities and investigate the processes that facilitate
 or inhibit the public's involvement in those activities. The
 geographical area for the survey was defined by the "commuting
 basin" of Chicago, excluding several independent cities and their
 suburbs (e.g., Aurora, Waukegan, and Joliet) on the northern and
 western fringes of that area, and excluding all areas in
 Indiana. Interviewing was carried out by the Survey Research
 Laboratory at the University of Illinois during June through August
 1979. Information was gathered on people's opinions toward safety,
 their involvement with crime prevention activities, and the quality of
 life in their neighborhoods. In addition, data were assembled from
 Census Bureau and police reports for each community area in which
respondents lived in the years immediately preceding the survey.
Inmate Victimization in State Prisons in the United States, 1979

This data collection was designed to determine the nature
and extent of victimization in state prisons across the nation. In
particular, it examines topics such as prison living conditions,
prison programs, prison safety, and inmates' participation in or
victimization by other inmates with respect to several types of
property and bodily crimes. Also presented are a set of attitudinal
measures dealing with inmates' thoughts and perceptions on a variety
of subjects, including their reactions to general statements about
prison life and to a series of hypothetical situations.
Xenon (New Jersey) Commercial Burglary Data, 1979-1981

This data collection is one of three quantitative databases
comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the
Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on patterns of commercial
theft and characteristics of commercial thieves. This data collection
contains information on commercial burglary incidents in Xenon, New
Jersey. The data collection includes incident characteristics, theft
item, value of stolen property, and demographic information about the
suspect(s), such as police contacts, number of arrests, sex, race, and
age.
Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime, 1948-1977 [Racine, Wisconsin]: City Ecological Data

These data, intended for use in conjunction with JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY AND ADULT CRIME, 1948-1977 [RACINE, WISCONSIN]: THREE BIRTH
COHORTS (ICPSR 8163), are organized into two different types: Block
data and Home data. Part 1, Block Data, contains the characteristics of
each block in Racine for the years 1950, 1960, and 1970 as selected
from the United States Census of Housing for each of these years. The
data are presented for whole blocks for each year and for blocks
agglomerated into equal spaces so that comparison may be made between
the 1950, 1960, and 1970 data. In addition, land use and target density
(gas stations, grocery and liquor stores, restaurants, and taverns)
measures are included. The data were obtained from land use maps and
city directories. These block data have been aggregated into census
tracts, police grid areas, natural areas, and neighborhoods for the
purpose of describing the spatial units of each in comparable fashion
for 1950, 1960, and 1970. The information contained within the Block
Data file is intended to be used to merge ecological data with any of
the files described in the ICPSR 8163 codebook. The Home datasets
(Parts 2-6) contain selected variables from the Block Data file merged
with the Cohort Police Contact data or the Cohort Interview data from
ICPSR 8163. The Home datasets represent the merged files used by the
principal investigators for their analysis and are included here only
as examples of how the files from ICPSR 8163 may be merged with the
Block data.
Crime, Fear, and Control in Neighborhood Commercial Centers:  Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1970-1982

The major objective of this study was to examine how
physical characteristics of commercial centers and demographic
characteristics of residential areas
contribute to crime and how these characteristics
affect reactions to crime in mixed commercial-residential settings.
Information on physical characteristics includes type of business,
store hours, arrangement of buildings, and defensive modifications in
the area. Demographic variables cover racial composition, average
household size and income, and percent change of occupancy. The crime
data describe six types of crime: robbery, burglary, assault, rape,
personal theft, and shoplifting.
Survey of Jail and Prison Inmates, 1978:  California, Michigan, Texas

This survey was was conducted as part of the Rand 
 Corporation's research program on career criminals. Rand's Second 
 Inmate Survey was administered in late 1978 and early 1979 to convicted 
 male inmates at 12 prisons and 14 county jails in California, Michigan, 
 and Texas. The purpose of the survey was to provide detailed 
 information about the criminal behavior of offenders and their 
 associated characteristics. Emphasis was also placed on investigating 
 other major areas of interest such as the quality of prisoner 
 self-reports, varieties of criminal behavior, selective incapacitation, 
and prison treatment programs.
Arrests Without Conviction, 1979-1980:  Jacksonville and San Diego

This data collection includes information on robberies and
 burglaries in two cities, Jacksonville, Florida, and San Diego,
 California. The unit of analysis is defendants in felony cases.
 Information on each defendant includes socioeconomic status, criminal
 history, weapon usage, relationship to victim, trial procedures, and
 disposition. Demographic information for each defendant includes sex,
 race, age, and employment status. There are five files in the
 dataset. Parts 4 and 5 must be merged to form the complete
Jacksonville burglaries dataset.
Calling the Police:  Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979

This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of
POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975 (ICPSR 7760). Information is
included on 4,095 reported incidents of aggravated assault, auto
theft, burglary, larceny/theft offenses, forcible rape, and
robbery. The data cover citizen calls to police between April 21 and
December 7, 1979. There are four files in this collection, one each
for Jacksonville, Florida, Peoria, Illinois, Rochester, New York, and
San Diego, California. The data are taken from police dispatch records
and police interviews of citizens who requested police assistance.
Variables taken from the dispatch records include the dispatch time,
call priority, police travel time, age, sex, and race of the caller,
response code, number of suspects, and area of the city in which the
call originated. Variables taken from the citizen interviews include
respondent's role in the incident (victim, caller, victim-caller,
witness-caller), incident location, relationship of caller to victim,
number of victims, identification of suspect, and interaction with
police.
Forensic Evidence and the Police, 1976-1980

This data collection focuses on adult cases of serious
crime such as homicide (and related death investigations), rape,
robbery, aggravated assault/battery, burglary, and arson. Data are
included for Peoria, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Kansas City,
Missouri, and Oakland, California. The data consist of police, court,
and laboratory records from reports submitted by police personnel
during investigations of suspected criminal offenses. The primary
source of information was police case files. Prosecutor and court
files were reviewed for information regarding the disposition of
suspects who were arrested and formally charged. Crime laboratory
reports include information concerning the evidence submitted and the
examiner's worksheets, notes, and final results. There are eight
files in this dataset. Each of the four cities has one file for cases
with physical evidence and one file for cases in which physical
evidence was not collected or examined.
Early Intervention by Counsel: A Multi-Site Evaluation of the Presence of Counsel at Defendants' First Appearance (CAFA) in Court, 6 New York State counties, 2012-2016

This study sought to assess the impact of local programs that ensure
that legal counsel is provided at first appearance (usually arraignment) in
court on court decisions (such as bail or pretrial release, and consequences
such as pretrial detention and booking at a local detention facility), as well
as on subsequent consequences for charge reduction, disposition, and
sentencing.  The project collected original data from six upstate New York counties (under pseudonyms). The data were collected from indigent defense programs' case files, supplemented by data from county detention facilities on booking and
release.
Demographic variables in this collection include defendant age, race, gender, and residency.
Drinking and Driving:  A Survey of Licensed Drivers in the United States, 1983    

This study focuses on the drinking and driving habits of
 Americans. The questionnaire contained 51 questions. Respondents were
 interviewed over the telephone and asked about their frequency of
 consumption of alcoholic beverages, where they most often drank, 
 their mode of transportation to and from this location, their driving
 and drinking experiences, and their age, sex, educational attainment,
and socioeconomic status.
Judicial Decision Guidelines for Bail:  The Philadelphia Experiment, 1981-1982

The purpose of this study was to test the utility of draft
 guidelines in informing judicial decisions about bail. A sample of
 judges, based upon a stratified quota sampling design, was selected
 from the Philadephia Municipal Court to rule on sample cases. Eight
 judges were randomly selected to use guidelines and be "experimental
 judges," and eight others were randomly selected to be nonguideline or
 "control judges."  Data for the sample cases were taken from
 defendants' files. Variables provided in this collection include
 number of suspects involved, number of different offenses charged,
 most serious injury experienced by the victim(s), preliminary
 arraignment disposition, amount of bail, socioeconomic status and
 demographics of the defendant, prior criminal history of the
defendant, and reason for granting or denying bail.
Learning Deficiencies Among Adult Inmates, 1982:  Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington

The National Institute of Justice sponsored this study of
1,065 prison inmates in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Respondents were administered an academic achievement test, the Tests
of Adult Basic Education, and an individual intelligence test, the
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Other screening
tests were also given to certain respondents, including the
Mann-Suiter Disabilities Screening Test and the Adaptive Behavior
Checklist. Data for each inmate includes offenses committed, prior
institutionalization, juvenile adjudication, years of formal
education, academic and vocational participation while incarcerated,
previous diagnoses, childhood home situation, death of parents, number
of siblings, and any childhood problems. Information on demographic
characteristics, such as age, sex, race, employment history, and
physical condition, is available for each respondent.
National Assessment of Criminal Justice Needs, 1983:  [United States]

In 1983, the National Institute of Justice sponsored a
 program evaluation survey by Abt Associates that was designed to
 identify the highest priority needs for management and operational
 improvements in the criminal justice system. Six groups were surveyed:
 judges and trial court administrators, corrections officials, public
 defenders, police, prosecutors, and probation/parole officials.
 Variables in this study include background information on the
 respondents' agencies, such as operating budget and number of
 employees, financial resources available to the agency, and technical
 assistance, research, and initiative programs used by the agency. The
 codebook includes the mailed questionnaire sent to each of the six
 groups in the study as well as a copy of the telephone interview
guide.
Implementation of Community Corrections in Oregon, Colorado, and Connecticut [1981] 

Data were collected from three states to evaluate the
 success of community corrections programs and to identify the
 conditions that underlie these successes. In-person field interviews,
 telephone interviews, and mailback questionnaires were used at state,
 county, and district levels. The variables in the study were designed
 to examine the kinds of people who implement and maintain these
 programs, the level of commitment by judicial and prison officials to
 these programs, community support, and the goals of cost reduction,
work training, and rehabilitation.
Improving Correctional Classification, New York, 1981-1983

There were three specific goals of this research. The first
 was to evaluate three procedures currently available for the
 classification of correctional inmates: the Risk Analysis method,
 Megargee's Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Typology, and
 Toch's Prison Preference Inventory. Second, the research devised and
 tested a postdictive model of adjustment to prison life. Third, a new
 classification scheme was developed for predicting inmate adjustment
 to prison life that considers individual and organizational
 (contextual) factors and various interactions between the two. These
 data were collected from a sample of 942 volunteer inmates from ten
 New York state correctional facilities, five of which were maximum
 security and five of which were medium security facilities. Only
 one-half of the original 942 inmates completed the MMPI. Background
 and questionnaire data were collected during the summer and fall of
 1983. Outcome data on each inmate infraction were collected for a
 three-year period prior to that time. Each case in Part 1, Merged
 Survey Response File [PPQ, PEI, PAQ], represents survey response data
 from an individual inmate, with variables from the Prison Preference
 Questionnaire (PPQ), the Prison Environment Inventory (PEI), and the
 Prison Adjustment Questionnaire (PAQ). Cases in Part 2, Medical
 Records, are records of medical contacts and diagnoses of inmates'
 illnesses. Part 3, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory,
 contains personality assessment information and scores for each
 individual offender. Data in Part 4, Sample Data [Background
 Characteristics], consist of individual-based variables covering
 inmates' background characteristics. Part 5, Offenses and Disciplinary
 Action Records, contains records of offenses and disciplinary action
 by individual offender. The client number is unique and consistent
across all data files.
Keeping the Peace:  Police Discretion and the Mentally Disordered in Chicago, 1980-1981

For this data collection, information on police-citizen
 encounters was collected to explore the peacekeeping functions of the
 police and their handling of encounters with mentally ill persons. The
 data were gathered for part or all of 270 shifts through observations
 by researchers riding in police cars in two Chicago police districts
 during a 14-month period in 1980-1981. In Part 1 (Shift Level),
 information was collected once per shift on the general level of
 activity during the shift and the observer's perceptions of
 emotions/attitudes displayed by the police officers he/she
 observed. The file also contains, for each of the 270 shifts,
 information about the personal characteristics, work history, and
 working relationships of the police officers observed. Part 2
 (Encounter Level) contains detailed information on each police-citizen
 encounter including its nature, location, police actions and/or
 responses, citizens involved, and their characteristics and
 behavior. A unique and consistent shift identification number is
 attached to each encounter so that information about police officer
 characteristics from Part 1 may be matched with Part 2. There are
 1,382 police-citizen encounters involving 2,555 citizens in this
collection.
Research on Minorities, [1981]: Race and Crime in Atlanta and Washington, DC

This data collection effort is an investigation of
criminological and sociological factors within the Black community
with a focus on the alleged high incidence of violent crime committed
by Blacks. Four communities within Atlanta, Georgia, and four within
Washington, DC, were selected for the study. Two communities in each
area were designated high-crime areas, the other two low-crime areas.
Variables include the respondents' opinions on the relationship of race
and socioeconomic class to crime, their fear of crime and experiences
with crime, and contacts and attitudes toward the police. Demographic
data include respondents' gender and religion.
Women in Prison, 1800-1935:  Tennessee, New York, and Ohio  

This data collection focused on problems in the women's
 correctional system over a 135-year period. More specifically, it
 examined the origins and development of prisoner and sentencing
 characteristics in three states. Demographic data on female inmates
 cover age, race, parents' place of birth, prisoner's occupation,
 religion, and marital status. Other variables include correctional
 facilities, offenses, minimum and maximum sentences, prior
 commitments, method of release from prison, and presence of crime
partners.
Reducing Fear of Crime:  Program Evaluation Surveys in Newark and Houston, 1983-1984

Households and establishments in seven neighborhoods in
 Houston, Texas, and Newark, New Jersey, were surveyed to determine the
 extent of victimization experiences and crime prevention measures in
 these areas. Citizens' attitudes toward the police were also
 examined. Baseline data were collected to determine residents'
 perceptions of crime, victimization experiences, crime-avoidance
 behavior, and level of satisfaction with the quality of life in their
 neighborhoods (Parts 1 and 3). Follow-up surveys were conducted to
 evaluate the effectiveness of experimental police programs designed to
 reduce the fear of crime within the communities. These results are
 presented in Parts 2 and 4. In Part 5, questions similar to those in
 the baseline survey were posed to two groups of victims who reported
 crimes to the police. One group had received a follow-up call to
 provide the victim with information, assistance, and reassurance that
 someone cared, and the other was a control group of victims that had
 not received a follow-up call. Part 6 contains data from a newsletter
 experiment conducted by the police departments after the baseline data
 were gathered, in one area each of Houston and Newark. Two versions of
 an anti-crime newsletter were mailed to respondents to the baseline
 survey and also to nonrespondents living in the area. These groups
 were then interviewed, along with control groups of baseline
 respondents and nonrespondents who might have seen the newsletter but
 were not selected for the mailing. Demographic data collected include
age, sex, race, education and employment.
Pretrial Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring:  An Evaluation in Marion County, Indiana, 1988-1989

For this data collection a pretrial home detention program
in Marion County, Indiana, that relied on electronic monitoring of
clients was subjected to a nonexperimental evaluation. The data
address whether the pretrial electronic monitoring program was
effective in ensuring that clients appeared at their court hearings,
whether the pretrial electronic monitoring program was effective in
ensuring public safety, and the extent to which field contact officers
experienced difficulties in attempting to contact clients. To gauge
the success of the program, investigators compared the number of
successful terminations (i.e., home detention followed by a court
appearance) to the number of unsuccessful terminations (technical
violations and absconding). Each client in the pretrial program was
fitted with a coded wristlet that matched a base unit receptacle. A
successful contact between the coded wristlet and the base unit
verified the client's presence. Defendants on home detention were
monitored by a field contact officer. Variables in this collection
include charged offense, prior criminal history, living arrangements,
employment status, number of telephone calls, summary of program
violations, reason for program termination, program entry and
termination dates, and disposition after program release. The unit of
observation is the individual program client.
Criminal Careers and Crime Control in Massachusetts [The Glueck Study]:  A Matched-Sample Longitudinal Research Design, Phase I, 1939-1963

The relationship between crime control policies and
fundamental parameters of the criminal career, such as career length,
participation in offenses, and frequency and seriousness of offenses
committed, is examined in this data collection. The investigators
coded, recoded, and computerized parts of the raw data from Sheldon
and Eleanor Glueck's three-wave, matched sample study of juvenile and
adult criminal behavior, extracting the criminal histories of the 500
delinquents (officially defined) from the Glueck study. Data were
originally collected by the Gluecks in 1940 through psychiatric
interviews with subjects, parent and teacher reports, and official
records obtained from police, court, and correctional files. The
subjects were subsequently interviewed again between 1949 and 1965 at
or near the age of 25, and again at or near the age of 32. The data
coded by Laub and Sampson include only information collected from
official records. The data address in part (1) what effects
probation, incarceration, and parole have on the length of criminal
career and frequency of criminal incidents of an offender, (2) how
the effects of criminal control policies vary in relation to the
length of sentence, type of offense, and age of the offender, (3)
which factors in criminal control policy correlate with criminal
career termination, (4) how well age of first offense predicts the
length of criminal career, and (5) how age of offender relates to
type of offense committed. Every incident of arrest up to the age of
32 for each respondent (ranging from 1 to 51 arrests) is recorded in
the data file. Variables include the dates of arrest, up to three
charges associated with the arrest, court disposition, and starting
and ending dates of probation, incarceration, and parole associated
with the arrest.
Impact of Sentencing Reforms and Speedy Trial Laws in the United States, 1969-1989

The certainty and promptness of punishment have long been 
 hypothesized to be important variables in deterring crime. This data 
 collection evaluates whether sentencing reforms to enhance certainty of 
 punishment and speedy trial laws to enhance promptness of punishment 
 affected crime rates, prison admissions, and prison populations. 
 Variables include state, year, crime reports, economic conditions, 
 population (including age structure), prison population, prison 
 releases, and prison admissions. The unit of observation is the state 
by the year.