AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Violence Against Women With Physical Disabilities in Michigan, 2000-2001

In the past few years it has become alarmingly clear that
 women with disabilities are at an extremely high risk for emotional,
 sexual, and physical assault. The Developmental Disabilities Institute
 at Wayne State University, in collaboration with the United Cerebral
 Palsy Association in Michigan, conducted a one-year study to
 investigate the prevalence and correlates of, and service system
 capacity related to, domestic abuse among women with physical
 disabilities in Michigan. The study aimed to address the following
 research questions: (1) What is the prevalence of domestic violence
 among a sample of women with physical disabilities? (2) What potential
 factors for domestic violence exist among women with physical
 disabilities? and (3) What is the capacity of existing support
 programs (e.g., safe houses, shelters, and service agencies) to assist
 women with physical disabilities? The population for this study was
 women over the age of 18 who had physical disabilities. Consistent
 with the work of other researchers, physical disabilities in this
 study were defined as those disabilities that result in functional
 impairment, such as cerebral palsy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida,
 amputation, rheumatic conditions, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord
 injury, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment, hearing impairment,
 and stroke. A sample of 177 women was recruited through several
 mechanisms. To address the question of domestic abuse prevalence, the
 women participating in the study were first asked to complete a brief
 questionnaire addressing demographic characteristics and their
 experience with domestic violence (Part 1, Screening Interview
 Data). Fifty-six percent (100) of the 177 women interviewed indicated
 a positive history of abuse at their initial screening. In order to
 address the second research question about the correlates of abuse,
 this subsample of 100 women was invited and encouraged to participate
 in the second phase of the research, which involved a more extensive
 interview (Part 2, Abuse Interview Data). The interview used was based
 on a protocol developed by Nosek (1995) that addressed demographic
 characteristics, social networks, and abuse history. Variables in
 Parts 1 and 2 include type of disability, type of personal assistance
 needed, and whether the respondent was ever physically, emotionally,
 or sexually abused. Part 2 also contains variables on sources of monthly
 income, who perpetrated the abuse, the abuser's gender, how long the
 victim knew the abuser, whether the victim sought assistance from a
 domestic violence program or shelter, and a description of the worst
 incident of physical abuse. Demographic variables in Parts 1 and 2
include ethnicity, age, employment status, and marital status.
Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Maryland, 1997-1999  

This study was designed to address deficiencies in the
 existing literature on police work stress and especially on police
 stress-related domestic violence. The study sought to answer the
 following questions: (1) What is the relationship between police
 stress and domestic violence in police families? (2) What is the
 extent of domestic violence in police families? (3) What are the
 current stressors that contribute to police stress? (4) What are some
 of the tools available to measure or evaluate domestic violence in
 police families? (5) Can potentially effective interventions be
 identified to address the risk factors for stress-related domestic
 violence in police families? The study was a collaboration among the
 Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, the Baltimore Police
 Department, and a research team from the Johns Hopkins School of
 Public Health. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to
 approximately 1,100 law enforcement officers who volunteered to
 participate in the study. Major variables focus on stressors,
 workplace/stress environment, coworker environment, unfair treatment,
 work satisfaction, administrative support, health problems, behavior
 problems, and psychological problems. Demographic variables include
 gender, age, ethnicity, education, current rank, military service,
marital status, and if spouse/partner was a police officer.
Process Evaluation of the Michigan Department of Corrections Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program, 1999

This study was a process evaluation of the Michigan
 Department of Corrections' (MDOC) residential substance abuse treatment
 (RSAT) program at the Cooper Street Correctional Facility in Jackson,
 Michigan. The 272-bed program was designed to treat male,
 minimum-custody inmates with a history of serious chemical dependency.
 The phase of treatment at the Jackson Cooper Street facility lasted six
 months, and was followed by a 12-month aftercare component. The main
 theory of change behind the program was that education about drugs and
 their physical, familial, and social effects, coupled with opportunities
 to learn about recovery and identify triggers for substance use, would
 help substance-abusing offenders to avoid both substance abuse and
 criminal behaviors once released into the community. This study used
 multiple data sources. Part 1, Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC)
 Data, was acquired from the MDOC's Correctional Management Information
 System, which included demographic, criminal history, programming, and
 institutional misconduct information for a snapshot of the entire inmate
 population. These data provided information on all 44,061 inmates in the
 custody of MDOC on July 1, 1999. Part 2, RSAT Applications data,
 contains data for the 834 applications received by August 30, 1999.
 These data were received from University of Michigan (UM) researchers
 studying the long-term impact of the RSAT program on offender substance
 abuse and recidivism.  The data were collected using a screening form
 for each application, and were initially generated and entered into an
 electronic format by RSAT program staff. Part 3, Service Tracking Data,
contains RSAT admission and parole data, which were manually collected.
Evaluating the Effects of Fatigue on Police Patrol Officers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Polk County, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Arlington County, Virginia, 1997-1998

This study was undertaken to assess the connections between
administratively controllable sources of fatigue among police patrol
officers and problems such as diminished performance, accidents, and
illness. The study sought to answer: (1) What is the prevalence of
officer fatigue, and what are officers' attitudes toward it? (2) What
are the causes or correlates of officer fatigue? (3) How does fatigue
affect officer safety, health, and job performance? and (4) Can
officer fatigue be measured objectively? The final sample was
comprised of all sworn, nonsupervisory police officers assigned
full-time to patrol and/or community policing functions on the day
that data collection began at each of four selected sites: Lowell,
Massachusetts, Polk County, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Arlington
County, Virginia. Part 1, Fatigue Survey Data, includes demographic
data and officers' responses from the initial self-report
survey. Variables include the extent to which the respondent felt hot
or cold, experienced uncomfortable breathing, bad dreams, or pain
while sleeping, the time the respondent usually went to bed, number of
hours slept each night, quality of sleep, whether medicine was taken
as a sleep aid, estimated hours worked in a one-, two-, seven-, and
thirty-day period, how overtime affected income, family relationships,
and social activities, and reasons for feeling tired. Part 2,
Demographic and Fatigue Survey Data, is comprised of data obtained
from administrative records and demographic data forms. Several
measures from the initial self-report survey are also included in Part
2. Variables focus on respondents' age, sex, race, marital status,
global score on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scale, total years
as a police officer assigned to any agency and current agency, and
total years worked in current shift. Data for Part 3, FIT and
Administrative Data, were obtained from administrative records and
from the fitness-for-duty (FIT) workplace screener test. Variables
include a pupilometry index score and the dates, time, and particular
shift (days, evenings, or midnight) the officer started working when
the pupilometry test was administered. Part 3 also includes the number
of hours worked by the officer in a regular shift or in association
with overtime, the number of sick leave hours taken by the officer,
and whether the officer was involved in an on-duty accident, injured
on duty, or commended by his/her department during a particular
shift.
Turnover Among Alaska Village Public Safety Officers, 1994-1999  

The study was designed to examine the high turnover rate in
 Alaska's Village Public Safety Officers (VPSO) program. The goals were
 to help guide the design of future delivery of public safety services
 to Alaska villages and to add to what was a limited understanding of
 policing in places with tiny populations. The survey instrument was
 administered to former and currently-serving VPSOs from October 1998
 to January 1999. Information was collected on the respondent's
 motivation for becoming a VPSO, length of time working as a VPSO, if
 the respondent was satisfied with the pay, retirement benefits,
 training, housing, and safety, if it was difficult for the respondent
 to enforce laws against relatives, the respondent's perception of the
 community's support and expectations, and their job-related stresses,
 role conflicts, duties, and demands. Those who had left the job were
 also asked about their post-VPSO employment. Demographic variables
 include the respondent's age, race, sex, marital status, education,
military experience, and whether the officer was an Alaska Native.
Case Tracking and Mapping System Developed for the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, 1997-1998

This collection grew out of a prototype case tracking and
crime mapping application that was developed for the United States
Attorney's Office (USAO), Southern District of New York (SDNY). The
purpose of creating the application was to move from the traditionally
episodic way of handling cases to a comprehensive and strategic method
of collecting case information and linking it to specific geographic
locations, and collecting information either not handled at all or not
handled with sufficient enough detail by SDNY's existing case
management system. The result was an end-user application designed to
be run largely by SDNY's nontechnical staff. It consisted of two
components, a database to capture case tracking information and a
mapping component to link case and geographic data. The case tracking
data were contained in a Microsoft Access database and the client
application contained all of the forms, queries, reports, macros,
table links, and code necessary to enter, navigate through, and query
the data. The mapping application was developed using Environmental
Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) ArcView 3.0a GIS. This collection
shows how the user-interface of the database and the mapping component
were customized to allow the staff to perform spatial queries without
having to be geographic information systems (GIS) experts. Part 1 of
this collection contains the Visual Basic script used to customize the
user-interface of the Microsoft Access database. Part 2 contains the
Avenue script used to customize ArcView to link the data maintained in
the server databases, to automate the office's most common queries,
and to run simple analyses.
Experiences and Needs of Formerly Intimate Stalking Victims in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1991-1995  

This study sought to explore the nature of the stalking
 experiences of noncelebrity stalking victims who had previously been
 in intimate relationships with their stalkers. These were cases in
 which the stalkers were seeking revenge and/or reconciliation through
 stalking. Data were collected from 187 female stalking victims during
 1991-1995 living in Chester, Delaware, Bucks, Philadelphia, and
 Montgomery counties in southeastern Pennsylvania. Data collection was
 comprised of an extensive, semistructured, face-to-face interview
 conducted with each woman to gather information concerning the nature
 of the stalking, the relationship between the victim and the stalker,
 the victim's response to the stalking, the consequences of the
 stalking for the victim, the needs of stalking victims in general, and
 fulfillment of those needs in terms of victim services and interaction
 with and cooperation from the criminal justice system. A brief survey
 questionnaire was also administered to obtain demographic information
 about each victim and her stalker. Content analysis of the interview
 transcripts was used to identify variables. Each variable fell into
 one of six categories: (1) victim's prior relationship with the
 stalker, (2) characteristics of the stalking, (3) victim's attempt to
 discourage the stalker (through both legal and extralegal mechanisms),
 (4) assistance sought by the victim through formal and informal
 networks and the subsequent handling of the situation by others, (5)
 the physical and emotional effects of the stalking on the victim, and
 (6) other victimization experiences. Demographic variables include
 the age, race, education level, marital status, and employment status
of both the victim and the stalker.
Rehabilitation Programs for Adult Offenders: A Meta-Analysis in Support of Guidelines for Effective Practice, 5 Countries, 1950-2014

This is a comprehensive meta-analysis of available research on the effects of intervention programs for adult offenders, which is based on 801 eligible controlled studies reported through 2014 identified by researchers. Variables describing the intervention, participating offender samples, research methods, and effects found on a range of outcome constructs were coded into a database for analysis. The major outcome categories examined were recidivism, substance use, employment, mental health, anger/hostility, and aggression/violence. Broad intervention approaches included those such as cognitive behavioral, structured group, counseling, and drug court programs.The meta-analysis seeks to examine outcomes of various types of interventions and identify the characteristics of programs and participants most closely associated with positive outcomes. It seeks to use the findings to construct and obtain feedback on effective practice guidelines within the adult correctional system.
National Elder Mistreatment Study: 8-Year Follow-up of Victims and Matched Non-Victims, United States, 2015-2018

The purpose of the completed project was to follow the first National Elder Mistreatment Study, which provided prevalence estimates, with a second study of a subset of the same participants to measure the effects of elder abuse in terms of (1) health and mental health outcomes and (2) criminal justice system participation and satisfaction, as well as to specify additional predictors of these effects. Data were collected from 774 older adults 8 years following their participation in Wave I of the NEMS. This represented the results of contacting every locatable participant who reported psychological, physical, or sexual (but not financial) abuse at Wave I (achieved subsample n = 183 of the original 753 Wave I victims) and a comparison sample of 591 randomly selected Wave I non-victims from the remaining 2,149 working phone numbers of the original 5,024 non-victims (at Wave I). As mentioned, financial abuse classification at Wave I was not used to identify the victim subgroup prior to sampling, however retrospective analysis indicated that the two aforementioned sampling groups (every working phone number of Wave I victims of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse AND every working phone number of the 2,149 comparison Wave I participants) accounted for all but 7 financial abuse victims identified as such at Wave I (i.e., no other financial abuse victims at Wave I could have possibly been re-contacted). The cooperation rate (upon contact), for Wave I victims of psychological, physical, or sexual abuse was 66%; the cooperation rate of comparison Wave I participants was 57%. (Note: it had originally been proposed to conduct propensity matching once the sample of Wave I victims was re-contacted, however by conserving funds during this first phase, the study was able to expand from propensity matching to random selection of a much larger group of over 2,149, for a final derived sample of 774.)
Assessment of Financial Judgment: Conceptual and Measurement Approaches, Metro Detroit, Michigan, 2014-2016

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.
Drawing on the principles of Whole Person Dementia Assessment (Mast, 2011) and Appelbaum and Grisso's (1988) decision-making model, this project developed a tool, the Lichtenberg Financial Decision Rating Scale (LFDRS). The conceptual model for the LFDRS questionnaire integrates the measurement of contextual variables with financial capacity assessment. The purpose of the study was to establish reliability and validity of the LFDRS and to collect data on normative financial decision-making by older adults.
The researchers posited that as financial exploitation of older adults increases, investigation and prosecution of these cases remains difficult for criminal justice professionals who must balance protection of older adults with their right to autonomy; and that both under and over-protection of older adults can lead to damaging consequences. The project goal was to develop a set of new financial decision-making screening and comprehensive measures for criminal justice professionals and non-criminal justice professionals to aid in detecting and prosecuting financial exploitation of older adults. The LFDRS (described above) is meant to be used by mental health professionals, specially trained in assessment of older adults. In addition, the researchers developed a 10-item screening tool, the Lichtenberg Financial Decision Screening Scale or Short Scale (LFDSS), that was tested by multiple professionals working in diverse settings (e.g., APS workers, elder law attorneys, law enforcement personnel).
Family members are another group that are often aware of an older adult's vulnerability to financial exploitation and therefore, the researchers developed the Lichtenberg Financial Decision Rating Scale -- Family and Friends version (LFDRS - Family and Friends also known as the LFDRS Informant) to allow concerned professionals to interview confidantes of older adults to help measure financial capacity of a loved one. This tool may be particularly useful for Adult Protective Services to interview multiple people regarding their concerns about an older adult.
The collection contains 3 SPSS data files:

LFDRS-Data-for-ICPSR.sav (200 cases, 109 variables)
LFDRS_Informant-Data-for-ICPSR.sav (150 cases, 45 variables)
LFDSS_Screener-Data-for-ICPSR.sav (213 cases, 24 variables)
An In-depth Examination of Batterer Intervention and Alternative Treatment Approaches for Domestic Violence Offenders, Utah, 2015-2018

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 National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-funded study was designed to provide an in-depth examination of a batterer intervention program (BIP) and an alternative treatment approach using restorative justice (RJ) for domestic violence (DV) offenders. The study design provided an in-depth content analysis to complement a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Salt Lake City, Utah that used an intention to treat method of analysis to determine which treatment program has the lowest arrest outcomes: a traditional BIP or a BIP plus RJ approach called Circles of Peace (CP). Utah requires a minimum of 16 weeks of treatment for domestic violence offenders mandated to treatment. BIP, a 16-week group-based treatment approach for offenders only, is largely didactic and focuses on changing sexist attitudes for the purpose of altering the behavior of offenders. BIP plus CP provides 12 weeks of offender-only group sessions (with RJ principles infused throughout), encouraging offenders to focus on behavioral and attitudinal change. Following the initial 12 group sessions, offenders participated in four weeks of individual circles with a willing victim or a victim advocate (if the victim does not want to participate), family members or other support people, and trained community volunteers.
The collection contains 2 SPSS data files: Case-Record-Review---BIP--CP-n-68-.sav (n=68, 313 variables) and Case-Record-Review---BIP-Only-n-92-.sav (n=92, 398 variables).
Data related to respondents' qualitative interviews are not available as part of this collection.
Offender Decision-Making: Decision Trees and Displacement, Texas, 2014-2017

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 research expanded on offenders' decisions whether or not to offend by having explored a range of alternatives within the "not offending" category, using a framework derived from the concept of crime displacement. Decision trees were employed to analyze the multi-staged decision-making processes of criminals who are blocked from offending due to a situational crime control or prevention measure. The researchers were interested in determining how offenders evaluated displacement options as available alternatives. The data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 200 adult offenders, either in jail or on probation under the authority of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, from 14 counties. Qualitative data collected as part of this study's methodology are not included as part of the data collection at this time.
Three datasets are included as part of this collection:

NIJ-2013-3454__Part1_Participants.sav (200 cases, 9 variables)
NIJ-2013-3454__Part2_MeasuresSurvey.sav (2415 cases, 6 variables) NIJ-2013-3454__Part3_Vignettes.sav (1248 cases, 10 variables)
Demographic variables included: age, gender, race, and ethnicity.