AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Impact of Alcohol or Drug Use and Incarceration on Child Care in Santa Clara County, California, 2003  

This pilot study was conducted in an attempt to better
 understand the jailed population in terms of the number of families at
 risk and the relationship between parental substance use and
 incarceration and its impact on the children of the incarcerated. The
 aim of the study was to describe the jailed population, their needs in
 relation to substance abuse and parenting issues, to explore
 children's risk factors resulting from having a parent with substance
 abuse and/or criminal justice involvement, and ultimately to offer a
 point of intervention for parents and children at risk. Participants
 included 229 men and 52 women aged 18 and older, who were in their
 first 48 hours of incarceration in the Santa Clara County Department
 of Corrections in August 2003 and who where voluntary participants in
 the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Arrestee Drug Abuse
 Monitoring (ADAM) Program (ARRESTEE DRUG ABUSE MONITORING (ADAM)
 PROGRAM IN THE UNITED STATES, 2003 [ICPSR 4020]). Male subjects were
 chosen through a random selection process, while female participants
 were taken from a convenience sample. The pilot study used a
 questionnaire completed as an addendum to the ADAM program main
 interview. Major types of variables included in this study are type
 and duration of alcohol/drug use, family history of incarceration,
 number and ages of children for whom the respondent was the primary
 caregiver, social consequences for the child due to the incarceration
 of the respondent, and if the child had any problems with drugs and/or
alcohol.
Evaluating the Use of Iris Recognition Technology in Plumsted Township, New Jersey, 2002-2003

This study was conducted from October 2002 through July 2003 as a process and impact evaluation of iris recognition technology named T-PASS (Teacher-Parent Authorization Security System) used in three New Egypt schools in New Jersey. The research team observed the use of the iris scanners, both informally (Dataset 1) and formally (Dataset 2), using systematic social observation methods, collected "official" data on school visitation patterns (Dataset 3), and  administered surveys to parents and teachers (Datasets 4-7). The various data collection methods were intended to shed light on two key issues: what was the experience of the schools in implementing iris recognition technology, and what was the overall impact of the technology. Specific variables included in the study are demographic variables on survey respondents (parents and teachers), perceptions of safety and problems in the schools and surrounding neighborhoods, and comparisons of the T-PASS system to alternative entry systems such as the buzzer and swipe card methods.
Florida's Criminal Justice Workforce Research Information System, 1985-1996

This project sought to prove that research files could be
 created through the extraction of personnel management systems
 data. There were five goals associated with designing and creating the
 Florida Criminal Justice Workforce Research Information System: (1) to
 extract data from two transaction management information systems,
 which could then be used by researchers to describe and analyze the
 workforce that administers justice in Florida, (2) to pilot test the
 concept of developing a new research information source from existing
 data systems, (3) to forge partnerships with diverse criminal justice
 agencies having a mutual need to understand their respective
 workforces, (4) to design research files to enable internal and
 external researchers to utilize the data for analytical purposes, and
 (5) to describe the methodology used to create the workforce
 information system in sufficient detail to enable other states to
 replicate the process and develop their own criminal justice workforce
 research databases. The project was jointly conceived, designed, and
 completed by two state-level criminal justice agencies with diverse
 missions and responsibilities: the Florida Department of Law
 Enforcement (FDLE) and the Florida Department of Corrections
 (FDC). Data were extracted from two personnel management systems: the
 Automated Transaction Management System (ATMS) operated by the Florida
 Department of Law Enforcement, which contains data on all certified
 law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers in
 Florida (Part 1), and the Cooperative Personnel Employment System
 (COPES) operated by the Department of Management Services, which
 contains data on all state employees (Part 2). Parts 3-5 consist of
 data extracted from Parts 1 and 2 regarding certification status (Part
 3), education (Part 4), and training (Part 5). Two demographic
 variables, race and sex, are found in all parts. Parts 1 and 2 also
 contain variables on employment event type, employer type, position
 type, salary plan, job class, appointment status, and supervisor
 indicator. Part 3 variables are certification event type and
 certificate type. Part 4 variables include degree earned and area of
 degree. Part 5 includes a variable for passing or failing training
certification.
Impacts of Specific Incivilities on Responses to Crime and Local Commitment, 1979-1994: [Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Seattle]

This data collection was designed to test the
"incivilities thesis": that incivilities such as extant neighborhood
physical conditions of disrepair or abandonment and troubling street
behaviors contribute to residents' concerns for personal safety and
their desire to leave their neighborhood. The collection examines
between-individual versus between-neighborhood and between-city
differences with respect to fear of crime and neighborhood commitment
and also explores whether some perceived incivilities are more
relevant to these outcomes than others. The data represent a secondary
analysis of five ICPSR collections: (1) CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH AND
LOW CRIME NEIGHBORHOODS IN ATLANTA, 1980 (ICPSR 7951), (2) CRIME
CHANGES IN BALTIMORE, 1970-1994 (ICPSR 2352), (3) CITIZEN
PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY CRIME PREVENTION, 1979: CHICAGO
METROPOLITAN AREA SURVEY (ICPSR 8086), (4) CRIME, FEAR, AND CONTROL IN
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL CENTERS: MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, 1970-1982
(ICPSR 8167), and (5) TESTING THEORIES OF CRIMINALITY AND
VICTIMIZATION IN SEATTLE, 1960-1990 (ICPSR 9741). Part 1, Survey Data,
is an individual-level file that contains measures of residents' fear
of victimization, avoidance of dangerous places, self-protection,
neighborhood satisfaction, perceived incivilities (presence of litter,
abandoned buildings, vandalism, and teens congregating), and
demographic variables such as sex, age, and education. Part 2,
Neighborhood Data, contains crime data and demographic variables from
Part 1 aggregated to the neighborhood level, including percentage of
the neighborhood that was African-American, gender percentages,
average age and educational attainment of residents, average household
size and length of residence, and information on home ownership.
Effects of Community Policing on Tasks of Street-Level Police Officers in Ohio, 1981 and 1996  

These data were collected to analyze the impact of
 community-oriented policing (COP) on job assignments of police
 officers in Ohio. The study compared the self-reported job tasks of
 police officers in 1981 to those in 1996 to determine if job tasks had
 changed over time, if they differed between officers in departments
 pursuing community policing, or if they differed between officers
 assigned as "community policing" officers and those having more
 traditional assignments. The 1981 Ohio Peace Officer Task Analysis
 Survey was conducted to measure police officer tasks. A total of 1,989
 police officers from over 300 Ohio police agencies responded to that
 survey. Recognizing that community policing had not yet begun to enjoy
 popularity when the first sample of officers was questioned in 1981
 and that the job of policing and the training needs of peace officers
 had changed over the past 15 years, the Ohio Office of Criminal
 Justice Services again conducted a task analysis survey of a sample of
 police officers throughout the state in 1996. The 1996 survey
 instrument included 23 items taken directly from the earlier
 survey. These 23 items are the only variables from the 1981 survey
 that are included in this dataset, and they form the basis of the
 study's comparisons. A total of 1,689 officers from 229 police
 departments responded to the 1996 survey. Additionally, while the 1996
 Peace Officer Task Analysis survey was in the field, the local police
 agencies included in the survey sample were asked to complete a
 separate agency survey to determine if they had a community policing
 program. A total of 180 departments returned responses to this agency
 survey. Background questions for the 1981 and 1996 task analysis
 surveys included police officers' age, race, sex, and job
 satisfaction. Items concerning police officers' job tasks covered
 frequency of conducting field searches of arrested persons,
 handcuffing suspects, impounding property, participating in raids,
 patrolling on foot, giving street directions, mediating family
 disputes, and engaging in school visits. The 1996 agency questionnaire
 gathered data on whether the police department had a COP program or a
 mission statement that emphasized community involvement, whether the
 COP program had an actual implementation date and a full-time
 supervisor, whether the respondents were currently assigned as COP
 officers, and whether the department's COP officers had had
supplemental training.
Final Assessment of the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) in New Haven, Connecticut, 1994-2001

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of New
Haven, Connecticut's Strategic Approaches to Community Safety
Initiative (SACSI) project, named TimeZup, by measuring the impact of
the program on public safety, public fear, and law enforcement
relationships and operations. The study was conducted using data
retrieved from the New Haven Police Department's computerized records
and logs, on-site questionnaires, and phone interviews. Important
variables included in the study are number of violent gun crimes
committed, number and type of guns seized by the police, calls to the
police involving shootings or gun shots, the date and time of such
incidents, residents' perception of crime, safety and quality of
life in New Haven, and supervisees' perceptions of the TimeZup
program.
Teacher Victimization: Understanding Prevalence, Causation, and Negative Consequences in a Large Metropolitan Area in the Southwestern United States, 2016-2017

This two-year longitudinal research examined the prevalence of seven different types of teacher victimization, its negative consequences among victimized teachers, and predictors of aggression directed against teachers. The research, using a stratified multistage cluster sampling design, surveyed 1,628 middle and high school teachers in 14 school districts, located in a large metropolitan area in the southwest region of the United States. Two waves of the longitudinal research collected 1) teachers' socio-demographic factors, 2) teacher classroom management styles, and 3) school climate factors which are related to teacher victimization. Also, the data contained characteristics of victimization, school responses to teacher victimization, and negative consequences of teacher victimization.
A Group Randomized Trial of Restorative Justice Programming to Address the School to Prison Pipeline, Reduce Aggression and Violence, and Enhance School Safety in Middle and High School Students, North Carolina, 2014-2018

The project's overarching goals are to improve the knowledge and understanding of school safety and violence, and to enhance school safety programs through rigorous social and behavioral science research. This research project will meet these goals by implementing and evaluating a restorative justice school safety initiative that: 1) reduces bullying perpetration and victimization, aggression, and violence, 2) enhances school safety and mental health in middle and high school students, and 3) reduces the school to prison pipeline by diverting first offenders from the juvenile justice system into Teen Courts. In meeting this objective, we will implement and evaluate an innovative school safety initiative that includes a comprehensive school-based needs assessments using the School Success Profile-Plus (SSP+) student reporting system. In addition, Teen Courts will be implemented in schools to emphasize restorative justice, keep first time offenders out of the juvenile justice system, and reduce the school to prison pipeline. We will evaluate the efficacy of this restorative justice initiative for promoting school safety and reducing violence, by conducting a rigorous experimental trial of 24 middle- and high-schools that are randomly selected to either conduct SSP+ assessments and receive school-based Teen Courts (n=12) or to conduct SSP+ assessments without Teen Court programming (n=12).
Exploring Alternative Data Sources for the Study of Assault in Miami, Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994 -1997

The study involved the collection of data on serious assaults that occured in three cities: Miami, Florida (1996-1997), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1994-1996), and St. Louis, Missouri (1995-1996). The data were extracted from police offense reports, and included detailed information about the incidents (Part 1) as well as information about the victims, suspects, and witnesses for each incident (Parts 2-9).
Evaluation of the Maricopa County [Arizona] Demand Reduction Program, 1989-1991

These data were collected to evaluate the Demand Reduction
 Program, a program initiated in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 1989 to
 combat drug abuse. A consortium of municipal, county, state, and
 federal law enforcement agencies developed the program, which stressed
 user accountability. The Demand Reduction Program had two objectives:
 (1) to create community-wide awareness of the severity of the drug
 problem and to alert drug users to the increased risk of legal
 sanctions, and (2) to adopt a zero-tolerance position of user
 accountability through an emphasis on increased and coordinated law
 enforcement activities directed against individual offenders and
 special treatment programs in lieu of prosecution. Part 1 of the
 collection, Demand Reduction Program Data, provides information on
 prosecutor's disposition, arrest date, submitted charges, filed
 charges, prior charges, disposition of charges, drugs offender used in
 last three months, information on prior drug treatment, type of
 attorney, and arrestee's age at arrest, sex, marital status, income,
 and living arrangement. Part 2 is a Citizen Survey conducted in
 January 1990, ten months after the implementation of the Demand
 Reduction Program. Adult residents of Maricopa County were asked in
 telephone interviews about their attitudes toward drug use, tax
 support for drug treatment, education, and punishment, their knowledge
 of the Demand Reduction Program, and demographic information. Parts 3
 and 4 supply data from surveys of Maricopa County police officers,
 conducted in March 1990 and April 1991, to measure attitudes regarding
 the Demand Reduction Program with respect to (1) police effort, (2)
 inter-agency cooperation, (3) the harm involved in drug use, and (4)
 support for diversion to treatment. The two police surveys contained
 identically-worded questions, with only a small number of different
 questions asked the second year. Variables include officer's rank,
 years at rank, years in department, shift worked, age, sex, ethnicity,
 education, marital status, if officer was the primary or secondary
 wage earner, officer's perception of and training for the Demand
 Reduction Program, and personal attitudes toward drug use. Part 5
 provides arrest data from the Maricopa County Task Force, which
 arrested drug users through two methods: (1) sweeps of public and
 semi-public places, and (2) "reversals," where drug sellers were
 arrested and replaced by police officers posing as drug sellers, who
 then arrested the drug buyers. Task Force data include arrest date,
 operation number, operation beginning and ending date, operation type,
 region where operation was conducted, charge resulting from arrest,
 Demand Reduction Program identification number, and arrestee's sex,
race, and date of birth.
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Substance Use, Wave 2, 1997-2000

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
 (PHDCN) was a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families,
 schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development.
 One component of the PHDCN was the Longitudinal Cohort Study, which
 was a series of coordinated longitudinal studies that followed over
 6,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults, and
 their primary caregivers over time to examine the changing
 circumstances of their lives, as well as the personal characteristics,
 that might lead them toward or away from a variety of antisocial
 behaviors. Numerous measures were administered to respondents to
 gauge various aspects of human development, including individual
 differences, as well as family, peer, and school influences. The
 Substance Use interview was a self-report measure administered to
 Cohorts 9, 12, 15, and 18 to obtain information regarding the
subject's use of specific drugs.
Communication of Innovation in Policing in the United States, 1996  

These data were collected to examine the patterns of
 communication among police planners in the United States. The focus
 was on information-sharing, in which police planners and others
 contact other law enforcement agencies directly to gather the
 information they need to manage their departments. This study
 examined this informal network and its role in the dissemination of
 police research. The Police Communication Network Survey was mailed
 to the chief executives of 517 local departments and all 49 state
 police and highway patrol organizations in March 1996. The chief was
 asked to forward the questionnaire to the commander of the
 department's planning and research unit. Questions covered the agency
 most frequently contacted, how frequently this agency was contacted,
 mode of communication used most often, why this agency was contacted,
 and the agency most likely contacted on topics such as domestic
 violence, deadly force, gangs, community policing, problem-oriented
 policing, drug enforcement strategies, civil liability, labor
 relations, personnel administration, accreditation, and police traffic
 services. Information was also elicited on the number of times
 different law enforcement agencies contacted the respondent's agency
 in the past year, the percentage of time devoted to responding to
 requests for information from other agencies, and the amount of
 training the respondent and the staff received on the logic of social
 research, research design, statistics, operations research,
 cost-benefit analysis, evaluation research, and computing. Demographic
 variables include respondent's agency name, position, rank, number of
 years of police experience, number of years in the planning and
research unit, and highest degree attained.
Survey on Street Disorder in Large Municipalities in the United States, 1994-1996  

The objective of this survey was to provide city officials
 and police with information on how to carry out street disorder
 enforcement strategies within the constitutional guidelines
 established by the courts. To that end, a survey of 512 municipal
 police departments was conducted in the spring of 1996. The agencies
 were asked to supply data for the current year as well as for 1994 and
 1995. Information was collected on the existence of particular street
 disorder ordinances, when such ordinances were passed, the number of
 citations and arrests resulting from each ordinance, and whether the
 ordinances were challenged in court. Data covered the following types
 of street disorder: panhandling, open containers of alcohol, public
 intoxication, disorderly conduct, sleeping in public places,
 unregulated day labor solicitation, vending, dumpster diving, camping
 in public, and juvenile curfews. Departments were also asked about
 their written policies regarding certain types of street
 disorder. Other departmental information includes location, number of
personnel, and population of jurisdiction.
Longitudinal Study of Criminal Career Patterns of Former California Youth Authority Wards, 1965-1984

This study was designed to measure changes that occur in
 criminal behavior as offenders move through life. It investigated the
 patterns of criminal behavior that occurred over ten to fifteen years
 for men whose early criminal involvement was serious enough to result
 in commitment to California Youth Authority (state-level)
 institutions. The main focus of the study was on changes in criminal
 behavior as these men moved through their 20s and into their 30s. This
 study extended and expanded the follow-up data for the study EARLY
 IDENTIFICATION OF THE CHRONIC OFFENDER, [1978-1980: CALIFORNIA] (ICPSR
 8226). Half of the sample from the earlier study was used in the
 present study, along with smaller samples of adult offenders with no
 history of state-level commitments as juveniles. These data allow for
 analyses of adult patterns of criminal behavior and the relationship
 of the patterns to various explanatory variables. Part 1, Offense
 Data, contains arrest information covering the period after parole
 from the California Youth Authority through the date of data
 collection. Variables include entry and release dates to jail,
 prison, or probation, the most serious offense and charge, total
 number of offenses for violent, property, and all crimes, and dates of
 arrest, offense codes, and number of counts for all arrests.
 These arrest data incorporate the arrest data contained in EARLY
 IDENTIFICATION OF THE CHRONIC OFFENDER, [1978-1980: CALIFORNIA]
 (ICPSR 8226) for all California Youth Authority cases in the current
 study. Part 2,
 Arrest Data by Age and Year, contains counts of arrest charges by type
 of offense (violent or nonviolent) and by age and calendar year. Part
 3, Arrest Data for Specific Offenses, contains counts of more specific
 arrest charges for four-year age blocks (from 18 through 30-plus) for
 21 types of offenses, including murder, assault, rape, robbery,
 burglary, theft, forgery, arson, and drug possession. Variables
 include months of street time, months of incarceration, and total
 arrests. Part 4, Prison and Probation Data, contains information on
 prison or probation terms and arrest and lifestyle characteristics for
 the year immediately prior to and following jail or prison. Variables
 include family criminal history, family life, education, entry and
 release dates, offenses, treatment and training while incarcerated,
 gang affiliation, psychological evaluation, drug use, employment
 history, and marital status. Part 5, Social History Data, contains
 lifestyle characteristics by age and year. Variables include drug and
 alcohol use, marital status, living arrangements, and employment
history. All files contain age and race variables.