AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Police Performance and Case Attrition in Los Angeles County, 1980-1981

The purpose of this data collection was to investigate the
effects of crime rates, city characteristics, and police departments'
financial resources on felony case attrition rates in 28 cities located
in Los Angeles County, California. Demographic data for this collection
were obtained from the 1983 COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK. Arrest data were
collected directly from the 1980 and 1981 CALIFORNIA OFFENDER BASED
TRANSACTION STATISTICS (OBTS) data files maintained by the California
Bureau of Criminal Statistics. City demographic variables include total
population, minority population, population aged 65 years or older,
number of female-headed families, number of index crimes, number of
families below the poverty level, city expenditures, and police
expenditures. City arrest data include information on number of arrests
disposed and number of males, females, blacks, and whites arrested.
Also included are data on the number of cases released by police,
denied by prosecutors, and acquitted, and data on the number of
convicted cases given prison terms.
Effects of Foot Patrol Policing in Boston, 1977-1985

This collection evaluates the impact of a new foot patrol 
 plan, implemented by the Boston Police Department, on incidents of 
 crime and neighborhood disturbances. Part 1 contains information on 
 service calls by types of criminal offenses such as murder, rape, 
 aggravated assault, simple assault, robbery, larceny, burglary, and 
 auto theft. It also contains data on types of community disturbances 
 such as noisy party, gang, or minor disturbance and response priority 
 of the incidents. Response priorities are classified according to a 
 four-level scale: Priority 1: emergency calls including crimes in 
 progress, high risk or personal injury, and medical emergencies, 
 Priority 2: calls of intermediate urgency, Priority 3: calls not 
 requiring immediate response, Priority 4: calls of undetermined 
 priority. Parts 2 and 3 include information about patrol time used in 
 each of the three daily shifts during the pre- and post-intervention 
 periods. Part 4 presents information similar to Parts 2 and 3 but the 
data span a longer period of time--approximately seven years.
National Survey of Field Training Programs for Police Officers, 1985-1986

This national survey of field training programs for police 
 officers contains data gathered from state and local criminal justice 
 agencies regarding the format of their programs, costs of programs, 
 impact on civil liability suits, and other complaints. Topics covered 
 include length of time since the implementation of the program, reasons 
 for initiating the program, objectives of the program, evaluation 
 criteria and characteristics of the program, and number of dismissals 
 based on performance in field training programs. Other topics deal with 
 hours of classroom training, characteristics of field service training 
 officers, and incentives for pursuing this position. Topics pertaining 
 to agency evaluation include impact of program on the number of civil 
 liability complaints, number of successful equal employment opportunity 
 complaints, presence of alternative training such as with a senior 
 officer, and additional classroom training during probation when there 
is no field training program.
Crime Stoppers:  A National Evaluation of Program Operations and Effects, [United States], 1984

The goal of this data collection was to answer three basic
questions about the Crime Stoppers (CS) program, a program encouraging
citizen involvement in averting crime and apprehending suspects. First,
how does Crime Stoppers work in theory and in practice? Second, what
are the opinions and attitudes of program participants toward the Crime
Stoppers program? Third, how do various components of the program such
as rewards, anonymity, use of informants, and media participation
affect criminal justice outcome measures such as citizen calls and
arrests? This collection marks the first attempt to examine the
operational procedures and effectiveness of Crime Stoppers programs in
the United States. Police coordinators and board chairs of local Crime
Stoppers programs described their perceptions of and attitudes toward
the Crime Stoppers program. The Police Coordinator File includes
variables such as the police coordinator's background and experience,
program development and support, everyday operations and procedures,
outcome statistics on citizen calls (suspects arrested, property
recovered, and suspects prosecuted), reward setting and distribution,
and program relations with media, law enforcement, and the board of
directors. Also available in this file are data on citizen calls
received by the program, the program's arrests and clearances, and the
program's effects on investigation procedure. The merged file contains
data from police coordinators and from Crime Stoppers board members.
Other variables include city population, percent of households living
in poverty, percent of white population, number of Uniform Crime
Reports (UCR) Part I crimes involved, membership and performance of the
board, fund raising methods, and ratings of the program.
Effects of "United States vs. Leon" on Police Search Warrant Practices, 1984-1985

This data collection examines the impact of the Supreme
Court decision in "UNITED STATES VS. LEON" on police search warrant
applications in seven jurisdictions. For this collection, which is one
of the few data collections currently available for the study of
warrant activities, data were gathered from search warrant applications
filed during a three-month period before the Leon decision and three
months after it. Each warrant application can be tracked through the
criminal justice system to its disposition. The file contains variables
on the contents of the warrant such as rank of applicant, specific area
of search, offense type, material sought, basis of evidence, status of
informants, and reference to good faith. Additional variables concern
the results of the warrant application and include items such as
materials seized, arrest made, cases charged by prosecutor, type of
attorney, whether a motion to suppress the warrant was filed, outcomes
of motions, appeal status, and number of arrestees.
Violence Against Police:  Baltimore County, Maryland, 1984-1986

This data collection examines individual and situational
 characteristics of nonfatal assaults on police officers in the
 Baltimore County Police Department. In the assault data, variables
 include: (1) information on the officer such as age, race, sex, height,
 weight, education, rank, assignment, years of experience, weapon, and
 injury sustained, (2) information on the offender(s) such as age, race,
 sex, height, weight, weapon, injury sustained, and arrest status, and
 (3) information on the actual situation and incident itself, such as
 type of call anticipated, type of call encountered, type of location,
 numbers of persons present (by role, e.g., assaulter, nonassaulter,
 complainant, etc.), type of initial officer action, actions of suspect
 before assault, sobriety/drug use by suspects, and final disposition.
 The calls for service data were collected to provide an indication of
 the frequency of various types of calls. In these data, variables
 include time of call, initial call category, disposition code, and
sheet ID.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984

This data collection was designed to assess the effects of 
 the New York Juvenile Offender Law on the rate of violent crime 
 committed by juveniles. The data were collected to estimate the 
 deterrent effects of the law and to permit the use of an interrupted 
 time-series model to gauge the effects of intervention. The deterrent 
 effects of the law are assessed on five types of violent offenses over 
 a post-intervention period of 75 months using two comparison time 
 series to control for temporal and geographical characteristics. One 
 time series pertains to the monthly juvenile arrests of 16- to 
 19-year-olds in New York City, and the other covers monthly arrests of 
 juveniles aged 13 to 15 years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 
 control jurisdiction. Included in the collection are variables 
 concerning the monthly rates of violent juvenile arrests for homicide, 
 rape, assault, arson, and robbery for the two juvenile cohorts. These 
 time series data were compiled from records of individual police 
 jurisdictions that reported monthly arrests to the Uniform Crime 
Reporting Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Screening of Youth at Risk for Delinquency in Oregon, 1980-1985

This is a longitudinal study of three birth cohorts of
 youngsters who were considered at risk because of anti-social behavior
 or because of officially recorded delinquency at early ages. The study
 followed a sample of 245 boys in the fourth, seventh, and tenth grades
 in 1980 (Part 1) and again in 1985 (Part 2). Two screening devices, or
 "gatings," were used to predict future delinquency. The first
 procedure, triple gating, was based on teachers' ratings of school
 competence, mothers' reports of anti-social behavior in the home, and
 parental monitoring. The second procedure, double gating, used only
 the teachers' ratings and mothers' reports. Data were collected on the
 boys' family, school, and criminal backgrounds. Variables include
 measures of independence and achievement, family criminality, home
 conduct problems, school disruptiveness, school competence, parental
 authoritarianism, parental conflict, self-reported delinquency, peer
delinquency, and drug and alcohol use.
Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assault in Boston, Massachusetts, 1992-1997  

This study sought to inform various issues related to the
 extent of victims' adverse psychological and behavioral reactions to
 aggravated assault differentiated by the offenders' bias or non-bias
 motives. The goals of the research included (1) identifying the
 individual and situational factors related to bias- and
 non-bias-motivated aggravated assault, (2) determining the comparative
 severity and duration of psychological after-effects attributed to the
 victimization experience, and (3) measuring the comparative extent of
 behavioral avoidance strategies of victims. Data were collected on all
 560 cases from the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit
 from 1992 to 1997 that involved victim of a bias-motivated aggravated
 assault. In addition, data were collected on a 10-percent stratified
 random sample of victims of non-bias assaults within the city of
 Boston from 1993 to 1997, resulting in another 544 cases. For each of
 the cases, information was collected from each police incident
 report. Additionally, the researchers attempted to contact each victim
 in the sample to participate in a survey about their victimization
 experiences. The victim questionnaires included questions in five
 general categories: (1) incident information, (2) police response, (3)
 prosecutor response, (4) personal impact of the crime, and (5)
 respondent's personal characteristics. Criminal history variables were
 also collected regarding the number and type of adult and juvenile
 arrest charges against offenders and victims, as well as dispositions
and arraignment dates.
Informal Social Control of Crime in High Drug Use Neighborhoods in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, 2000

This neighborhood-level study sought to explore the effect
 of cultural disorganization, in terms of both weakened conventional
 culture and value heterogeneity, on informal social control, and the
 extent to which these effects may be conditioned by the level of drug
 use in the neighborhood. Data for Part 1 were collected from
 face-to-face and telephone interviews with households in the targeted
 sample. Part 2 is comprised of data collected from the United States
 Census 1990 Summary Tape File 3A (STF3A) as well as the United
 States Census 2000 Population counts, Lexington and Louisville police
 crime incident reports, and police data on drug arrests. The responses
 gleaned from the survey used in Part 1 were aggregated to the census
block group level, which are included in Part 2.
National Review of Stalking Laws and Implementation Practices in the United States, 1998-2001

This study was designed to clarify the status of stalking
 laws and their implementation needs. To accomplish this, the principal
 investigator conducted a survey of police and prosecutor agencies
 across the country to determine how stalking laws were being
 implemented. While there had been significant federal support for
 state and local agencies to adopt anti-stalking laws and implement
 anti-stalking initiatives, no comprehensive review of the status of
 such efforts had been done. Thus, there had been no way of knowing
 what additional measures might be needed to enhance local
 anti-stalking efforts. Two national surveys on stalking were
 conducted. The first survey of 204 law enforcement agencies (Part 1,
 Initial Law Enforcement Survey Data) and 222 prosecution offices (Part
 3, Initial Prosecutor Survey Data) in jurisdictions with populations
 over 250,000 was conducted by mail in November of 1998. The survey
 briefly asked what special efforts the agencies had undertaken against
 stalking, including special units, training, or written policies and
 procedures. A replication of the first national survey was conducted
 in November of 2000. Part 2, Follow-Up Law Enforcement Survey Data,
 contains the follow-up data for law enforcement agencies and Part 4,
 Follow-Up Prosecutor Survey Data, contains the second survey data for
 prosecutors. Parts 1 to 4 include variables about the unit that
 handled stalking cases, types of stalking training provided, written
 policies on stalking cases, and whether statistics were collected on
 stalking and harassment. Parts 2 and 4 also include variables about
 the type of funding received by agencies. Part 4 also contains
 variables about other charges that might be filed in stalking cases,
 such as harassment, threats, criminal trespass, and protection order
violation.
Economic Distress, Community Context, and Intimate Violence in the United States, 1988 and 1994  

Because of their restricted access to financial resources,
 couples undergoing economic distress are more likely to live in
 disadvantaged neighborhoods than are financially well-off couples. The
 link between individual economic distress and community-level economic
 disadvantage raises the possibility that these two conditions may
 combine or interact in important ways to influence the risk of
 intimate violence against women. This study examined whether the
 effect of economic distress on intimate violence was stronger in
 disadvantaged or advantaged neighborhoods or was unaffected by
 neighborhood conditions. This project was a secondary analysis of data
 drawn from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and
 Households (NSFH) and from the 1990 United States Census. From the
 NSFH, the researchers abstracted data on conflict and violence among
 couples, as well as data on their economic resources and well-being,
 the composition of the household in which the couple lived, and a
 large number of socio-demographic characteristics of the sample
 respondents. From the 1990 Census, the researchers abstracted
 tract-level data on the characteristics of the census tracts in which
 the NSFH respondents lived. Demographic information contains each
 respondent's race, sex, age, education, income, relationship status at
 Wave 1, marital status at Wave 1, cohabitation status, and number of
 children under 18. Using variables abstracted from both Wave 1 and
 Wave 2 of the NSFH and the 1990 Census, the researchers constructed
 new variables, including degree of financial worry and satisfaction
 for males and females, number of job strains, number of debts, changes
 in debts between Wave 1 and Wave 2, changes in income between Wave 1
 and Wave 2, if there were drinking and drug problems in the household,
 if the female was injured, number of times the female was victimized,
 the seriousness of the violence, if the respondent at Wave 2 was still
at the Wave 1 address, and levels of community disadvantage.