AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Survey of Drug Enforcement Tactics of Law Enforcement Agencies in the United States, 1992

This program evaluation study is intended to capture fully
 the universe of drug enforcement tactics available in the United
 States and to assess trends in drug enforcement. The primary objective
 of the study was to learn more about the application of anti-drug
 tactics by police: What tactics are used by police to address drug use
 problems? How widely are these tactics used? What new and innovative
 tactics are being developed and applied by police? What anti-drug
 tactics are most effective or show some promise of effectiveness? To
 answer these questions, state and local law enforcement agencies
 serving populations of 50,000 or more were mailed surveys. The survey
 was administered to both patrol and investigation units in the law
 enforcement agencies. This dual pattern of administration was intended
 to capture the extent to which the techniques of one unit had been
 applied by another. The questionnaire consisted primarily of
 dichotomous survey questions on anti-drug tactics that could be
 answered "yes" or "no". In each of the 14 categories of tactics,
 respondents were encouraged to add other previously unidentified or
 unspecified tactics in use in their agencies. These open-ended
 questions were designed to insure that a final list of anti-drug
 tactics would be truly comprehensive and capture the universe of drug
 tactics in use. In addition to questions regarding structural
 dimensions of anti-drug tactics, the survey also collected
 standardized information about the law enforcement agency, including
 agency size, demographic characteristics and size of the agency's
 service population, and a description of the relative size and nature
of the jurisdiction's drug problems.
Trends in Substance Abuse and Treatment Needs Among Inmates in the United States, 1996-1997

This data collection consists of the SPSS syntax used to
 recode existing variables and create new variables from the SURVEY OF
 INMATES OF LOCAL JAILS, 1996 [ICPSR 6858] and the SURVEY OF INMATES IN
 STATE AND FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, 1997 [ICPSR 2598]. Using
 the data from these two national surveys on jail and prison inmates,
 this study sought to expand the analyses of these data in order to
 fully explore the relationship between type and intensity of substance
 abuse and other health and social problems, analyze access to
 treatment and services, and make estimates of the need for different
types of treatment services in correctional systems.
Evaluation of Hung Juries in Bronx County, New York, Los Angeles County, California, Maricopa County, Arizona, and Washington, DC, 2000-2001

This study was undertaken for the purpose of providing an
 empirical picture of hung juries. Researchers were able to secure the
 cooperation of four courts: (1) Bronx County Supreme Court in New
 York, (2) Los Angeles County Superior Court in California, (3)
 Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona, and (4) District of
 Columbia Superior Court in Washington, DC. The four sites were
 responsible for distributing and collecting questionnaire packets to
 all courtrooms hearing non-capital felony jury cases. Each packet
 contained a case data form requesting information about case
 characteristics (Part 1) and outcomes (Part 2), as well as survey
 questionnaires for the judges (Part 3), attorneys (Part 4), and jurors
 (Part 5). The case data form requested type of charge, sentence range,
 jury's decision, demographic information about the defendant(s) and
 the victim(s), voir dire (jury selection process), trial evidence and
 procedures, and jury deliberations. The judge questionnaire probed
 for evaluation of the evidence, case complexity, attorney skill,
 likelihood that the jury would hang, reaction to the verdict, opinions
 regarding the hung jury rate in the jurisdiction, and experience on
 the bench. The attorney questionnaire requested information assessing
 the voir dire, case complexity, attorney skill, evaluation of the
 evidence, reaction to the verdict, opinions regarding the hung jury
 rate in the jurisdiction, and experience in legal practice. If the
 jury hung, attorneys also provided their views about why the jury was
 unable to reach a verdict. Finally, the juror questionnaire requested
 responses regarding case complexity, attorney skill, evaluation of the
 evidence, formation of opinions, dynamics of the deliberations
 including the first and final votes, juror participation, conflict,
 reaction to the verdict, opinions about applicable law, assessment of
criminal justice in the community, and demographic information.
Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program in the United States, 2003

The goal of the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program
is to determine the extent and correlates of illicit drug use in the
population of booked arrestees in local areas. Data were collected in
2003 up to four separate times (quarterly) during the year in 39
metropolitan areas in the United States. The ADAM program adopted a new
instrument in 2000 in adult booking facilities for male (Part 1) and
female (Part 2) arrestees. The ADAM program in 2003 also continued the
use of probability-based sampling for male arrestees in adult
facilities, which was initiated in 2000. Therefore, the male adult
sample includes weights, generated through post-sampling stratification
of the data. For the adult male and female files, variables fell into
one of eight categories: (1) demographic data on each arrestee, (2) ADAM
facesheet (records-based) data, (3) data on disposition of the case,
including accession to a verbal consent script, (4) calendar of
admissions to substance abuse and mental health treatment programs, (5)
data on alcohol and drug use, abuse, and dependence, (6) drug
acquisition data covering the five most commonly used illicit drugs, (7)
urine test results, and (8) for males, weights.
National Evaluation of the Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grant Program, 1998-2002


The National Evaluation of the Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grant Program (National Rural Evaluation) was a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grant Program (Rural Program). The program provided funding to states, local and tribal governments, and private or public entities in rural states to create or enhance collaborations among criminal justice agencies, service providers, and community organizations to enhance services and the response to victims of domestic violence.


The National Rural Evaluation consisted of two phases: a process evaluation and an outcome evaluation. The process evaluation (Phase 1: Parts 1-8) was conducted prior to the outcome evaluation to describe the 89 grantees funded in fiscal years 1996 to 1998 and the context and nature of grant activity. The outcome evaluation (Phase 2: Parts 9-35) conducted an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Rural program by identifying and assessing outcomes for nine grantees.


In total, this study contains 35 data files.  Users should review the Collection Notes to see a breakdown of the number of cases and variables in each data file.
Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program in the United States, 2002

The goal of the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program
is to determine the extent and correlates of illicit drug use in the
population of booked arrestees in local areas. Data were collected in
2002 at four separate times (quarterly) during the year in 36
metropolitan areas in the United States. The ADAM program adopted a new
instrument in 2000 in adult booking facilities for male (Part 1) and
female (Part 2) arrestees. Data from arrestees in juvenile detention
facilities (Part 3) continued to use the juvenile instrument from
previous years, extending back through the DRUG USE FORECASTING series
(ICPSR 9477). The ADAM program in 2002 also continued the use of
probability-based sampling for male arrestees in adult facilities, which
was initiated in 2000. Therefore, the male adult sample includes
weights, generated through post-sampling stratification of the data. For
the adult files, variables fell into one of eight categories: (1)
demographic data on each arrestee, (2) ADAM facesheet (records-based)
data, (3) data on disposition of the case, including accession to a
verbal consent script, (4) calendar of admissions to substance abuse and
mental health treatment programs, (5) data on alcohol and drug use,
abuse, and dependence, (6) drug acquisition data covering the five most
commonly used illicit drugs, (7) urine test results, and (8) weights.
The juvenile file contains demographic variables and arrestee's
self-reported past and continued use of 15 drugs, as well as other
drug-related behaviors.
Evaluation of Special Session Domestic Violence Court Processing in Connecticut, 1999-2000  

This study documented women's experience of enhanced
 services and advocacy in the context of the three special session
 domestic violence courts in Connecticut. The study conducted 60
 in-depth interviews with women whose current or former partners were
 arrested for domestic violence and who appeared in one of the three
 special session courts. The questions were designed to elicit
 information from women about the meaning and context of intimate
 violence in their lives generally, their assessments of the risks and
 options available to them and their children from family, friends, and
 other institutions, their strategies for maximizing safety for
 themselves and their children, the meaning of the arrest incident in
 their overall experience of their relationship with their abusive
 partner, and the impact of the court experience on their plans, sense
of options, and understanding of the abuse they had experienced.
Consequences of a Criminal Record for Employment Opportunity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2002  

This study examined employers' policies and practices for
 hiring entry-level workers in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The
 study consisted of telephone interviews conducted in the spring of
 2002 with 177 employers who had advertised entry-level openings in the
 prior six months. The survey included questions about the company,
 such as size, industry, employee turnover, and racial composition,
 questions about hiring procedures, questions about the last worker
 hired for a position not requiring a college degree, and questions
 about the employer's attitude toward various kinds of marginalized
 workers. An emphasis in the survey was placed on assessing employers'
 attitudes about and experience with applicants with criminal
histories.
Gangs in Rural America, 1996-1998       

This study was undertaken to enable cross-community
 analysis of gang trends in all areas of the United States. It was also
 designed to provide a comparative analysis of social, economic, and
 demographic differences among non-metropolitan jurisdictions in which
 gangs were reported to have been persistent problems, those in which
 gangs had been more transitory, and those that reported no gang
 problems. Data were collected from four separate sources and then
 merged into a single dataset using the county Federal Information
 Processing Standards (FIPS) code as the attribute of common
 identification. The data sources included: (1) local police agency
 responses to three waves (1996, 1997, and 1998) of the National Youth
 Gang Survey (NYGS), (2) rural-urban classification and county-level
 measures of primary economic activity from the Economic Research
 Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture, (3)
 county-level economic and demographic data from the County and City
 Data Book, 1994, and from USA Counties, 1998, produced by the United
 States Department of Commerce, and (4) county-level data on access to
 interstate highways provided by Tom Ricketts and Randy Randolph of the
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Variables include the
 FIPS codes for state, county, county subdivision, and sub-county,
 population in the agency jurisdiction, type of jurisdiction, and
 whether the county was dependent on farming, mining, manufacturing, or
 government. Other variables categorizing counties include retirement
 destination, federal lands, commuting, persistent poverty, and
 transfer payments. The year gang problems began in that jurisdiction,
 number of youth groups, number of active gangs, number of active gang
 members, percent of gang members who migrated, and the number of gangs
 in 1996, 1997, and 1998 are also available. Rounding out the variables
 are unemployment rates, median household income, percent of persons in
 county below poverty level, percent of family households that were
 one-parent households, percent of housing units in the county that
 were vacant, had no telephone, or were renter-occupied, resident
 population of the county in 1990 and 1997, change in unemployment
 rates, land area of county, percent of persons in the county speaking
 Spanish at home, and whether an interstate highway intersected the
county.
Outcome Evaluation of the Iowa State Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program, 1997-2001

The Other Way (TOW) program is an intensive residential
substance abuse treatment program housed at the Clarinda Correctional
Facility in Clarinda, Iowa. TOW is a voluntary, six-month program that
works with inmates to identify the causes of their addictive behaviors
and encourage changes in unacceptable behaviors and criminal
thinking. The Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and
Evaluation conducted an evaluation of TOW from October 1997 through
March 2001. The Iowa Consortium worked extensively with the Clarinda
TWO treatment staff to identify valid and reliable instruments that
measured substance use and abuse, mental health and personality
characteristics, criminal behavior and attitudes, social support, and
involvement in education, employment, and therapeutic
activities. These instruments were used to collect data at intake and
discharge. Additionally, the researchers conducted a six-month
follow-up of inmates to determine their post-program experiences as
well as recidivism. Part 1 (Clinical and Recidivism Data) consists of
selected variables gathered during the clinical interviews
administered to program participants at intake and discharge, as well
as recidivism data from the Department of Corrections. Part 2
(Follow-Up Data) consists of variables from the Addiction Severity
Index, which were collected during the six-month follow-up telephone
interview.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the United States, 1997-2000

This project undertook the systematic collection of
 first-generation data concerning the nature, extent, and seriousness
 of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the United States. The project
 was organized around the following research objectives: (1)
 identification of the nature, extent, and underlying causes of CSE and
 the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) occurring in the
 United States, (2) identification of those subgroups of children that
 were at the greatest risk of being sexually exploited, (3)
 identification of subgroups of adult perpetrators of sex crimes
 against children, and (4) identification of the modes of operation and
 other methods used by organized criminal units to recruit children
 into sexually exploitative activities. The study involved surveying
 senior staff members of nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and
 government organizations (GOs) in the United States known to be
 dealing with persons involved in the transnational trafficking of
 children for sexual purposes. Part 1 consists of survey data from
 nongovernment organizations. These were local child and family
 agencies serving runaway and homeless youth. Part 2 consists of survey
 data from government organizations. These organizations were divided
 into local, state, and federal agencies. Local organizations included
 municipal law enforcement, county law enforcement, prosecutors, public
 defenders, and corrections. State organizations included state child
 welfare directors, prosecutors, and public defenders. Federal
 organizations included the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal
 Public Defenders, Immigration and Naturalization Service, United
 States Attorneys, United States Customs, and the United States Postal
 Service. Variables in Parts 1 and 2 include the organization's city,
 state, and ZIP code, the type of services provided or type of law
 enforcement agency, how the agency was funded, the scope of the
 agency's service area, how much emphasis was placed on CSEC as a
 policy issue or a service issue, conditions that might influence the
 number of CSEC cases, how staff were trained to deal with CSEC cases,
 how victims were identified, the number of children that experienced
 child abuse, sexual abuse, pornography, or other exploitation in 1999
 and 2000 by age and gender, methods of recruitment, family history of
victims, gang involvement, and substance abuse history of victims.
Women Coping in Prison at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Virginia, 1999-2000

This study contributed to the growing interest in mental
illness and impairment among incarcerated individuals. It focused on
the larger spectrum of psychopathology that characterized the general,
nonhospitalized population at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for
Women in Virginia. Part 1 consists of clinical data obtained through
several questionnaires completed by a sample of 812 inmates between
April 1999 and January 2000. Parts 2 through 4 consist of additional
clinical data on subsamples of the Part 1 sample that were obtained
between June 1999 and July 2000 through interviews and self-enumerated
questionnaires. Part 5 contains data on inmate behavior and attitudes
obtained through questionnaires completed by correctional officers.
Course of Domestic Abuse Among Chicago's Elderly: Risk Factors, Protective Behaviors, and Police Intervention, 2006-2009

The study was conducted to examine if and how risk factors and protective behaviors affect the course of elder abuse over time, and the role of police in intervening with elderly victims of domestic abuse and/or neglect. It also examined the prevalence rates for various types of abuse using a stratified sample of Chicago's elderly population. The study involved in-depth interviews with 328 elderly (aged 60 and over) residents of Chicago from three sample groups: (1) 159 community nonvictims; (2) 121 community victims; and (3) a police sample consisting of 48 elderly victims who had been visited by trained domestic violence/senior citizen victimization officers in the Chicago Police Department. The interviews were conducted using a survey instrument designed to assess victimization. The survey included questions about various characteristics and risk factors associated both with victims and perpetrators of abuse and/or neglect, specific types of abuse, and protective behaviors of victims. Victimization was examined twice over a 10-month period to evaluate the course of abuse over time. The efficacy of police intervention was also examined.
Impact Evaluation of the Rhode Island Probation Specialized Domestic Violence Supervision Unit, 2003-2004 [United States]

The purpose of the research was to learn about the effectiveness of supervision of domestic violence offenders on probation. Specifically, the study sought to determine which, if any, probation practices promote victim safety and hold offenders accountable.  This study used several data collection strategies to better evaluate and compare two domestic violence offender case management strategies. The quantitative analysis was based on the findings from a nonrandom representative sample of 551 male probationers drawn from the nearly 3,000 misdemeanor domestic probationers in Rhode Island as of January 1, 2003. These offenders were, at the time of their sentencing, placed in either a regular or specialized domestic violence caseload determined by probation policies for each of 10 caseloads included in the study. A total of 182 offenders were placed on traditional supervision, while 369 offenders were placed in a specialized domestic violence unit. The probationers were tracked through January 1, 2004, to determine recidivism and reabuse differences between these supervision approaches.  There were three measures used to determine reabuse and recidivism: (1) rearrest for either an offense classified as domestic violence or for any other offense resulting in the defendant being charged and arraigned in a Rhode Island court; (2) a police report filed for an incident classified as domestic violence, whether or not an arrest was made; and (3) a victim report of domestic violence obtained in study interviews (see Data Collection Notes).  The data file contains 115 variables including basic information regarding the offender such as age, caseload number, and caseload type.  Additional variables detail the relationship between the offender and the victim, as well as the offender's previous arrest record, and previous domestic violence incidents involving the offender.
Reducing Courts' Failure to Appear Rate: A Procedural Justice Approach [Nebraska Statewide, Select Counties, 2009-2010]

The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanants' failure to appear (FTA) rates.  The study examined the problem of FTA via a two-stage experiment. In Phase 1, 7,865 misdemeanor defendants from 14 Nebraska counties were randomly assigned to one of four reminder conditions: (1) a no-reminder (control) condition; (2) a reminder-only condition; (3) a condition in which the reminder also made them aware of possible sanctions should they fail to appear (reminder-sanctions); or (4) a condition in which the reminder mentioned sanctions but also highlighted aspects of procedural justice (PJ), such as voice, neutrality, respect, and public interest (reminder-combined).  Data collection began in March 2009 and continued through May 2010. Files were received daily from the Nebraska Administrative Office of the Courts containing information about cases filed in each of the 14 counties included in the study. Upon receipt of this file, researchers screened participants using certain eligibility criteria. Researchers mailed postcard reminders two to five business days prior to the scheduled court appearance.  Approximately one week after each scheduled court appearance researchers accessed the courts' administrative database (JUSTICE) to determine whether the defendant actually appeared for the scheduled hearing. Upon accessing this information, researchers recorded this variable, which is the primary dependent variable in the study.  At the same time researchers recorded the appearance variable, they selected participants for Phase 2 of the study -- a mail survey administered after their scheduled appearance (or non-appearance) to assess their perceptions of procedural fairness and their level of trust/confidence in the courts.  To do so, researchers selected all participants who failed to appear for their court date to receive a survey. Twenty percent of defendants who did appear were also randomly selected to receive a survey.  Surveys were sent to a total of 2,360 individuals and were received from a total of 452 defendants.  The study contains a total of 197 variables including demographics, court appearance characteristics, experiment characteristics, charge/offense variables, and variables from surveys about experiences with the court system.