AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Police-Public Contact Survey, 2002 [United States]

The Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS), was designed by
 the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to document contacts between
 police and the public that culminated in police using force. The 2002
 survey was conducted as a supplement to the National Crime
 Victimization Survey (NCVS). To date, the PPCS has been conducted
 three times by BJS. The first survey -- described in the BJS
 publication, "Police Use of Force: Collection of National Data" (NCJ
 165040) -- documented levels of contacts with police during 1996. The
 second survey -- described in "Contacts Between Police and the Public:
 Findings from the 1999 National Survey" (NCJ 184957) -- recorded
 police-citizen contacts in 1999. These data are archived in
 POLICE-PUBLIC CONTACT SURVEY, 1999: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 3151). The
 third survey -- described here under the title "Contacts Between
 Police and the Public: Findings From the 2002 National Survey" (NCJ
 207845) -- covered interactions between police and the public in 2002.
The results of this survey are contained in this data collection.
Police-Public Contact Survey, 1999:  [United States]    

This survey was undertaken to learn more about how often
 and under what circumstances police-public contact becomes
 problematic. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) initiated surveys
 of the public on their interactions with police in 1996 with the first
 Police-Public Contact Survey, a pretest among a nationally
 representative sample of 6,421 persons aged 12 or older. That initial
 version of the questionnaire revealed that about 20 percent of the
 public had direct, face-to-face contact with a police officer at least
 once during the year preceding the survey. At that time, the principal
 investigator estimated that about 1 in 500 residents, or about a half
 million people, who had an encounter with a police officer also
 experienced either a threat of force or the actual use of force by the
 officer. The current survey, an improved version of the 1996
 Police-Public Contact Survey, was fielded as a supplement to the
 National Crime Victimization Survey (ICPSR 6406) during the last six
 months of 1999. A national sample nearly 15 times as large as the
 pretest sample in 1996 was used. The 1999 survey yielded nearly
 identical estimates of the prevalence and nature of contacts between
 the public and the police. This survey, because of its much larger
 sample size, permits more extensive analysis of demographic
 differences in police contacts than the 1996 pretest. In addition, it
 added a new and more detailed set of questions about traffic stops by
 police, the most frequent reason given for contact with police.
 Variables in the dataset cover type of contact with police, including
 whether it was face-to-face, initiated by the police or the citizen,
 whether an injury to the officer or the citizen resulted from the
 contact, crimes reported, and police use of force. Demographic
 variables supplied for the citizens include gender, race, and Hispanic
origin.
Police Use of Force Data, 1996: [United States]

In 1996, the Bureau of Justice Statistics sponsored a
 pretest of a survey instrument designed to compile data on citizen
 contacts with police, including contacts in which police use force.
 The survey, which involved interviews (both face-to-face and by phone)
 carried out by the United States Census Bureau, was conducted as a
 special supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS),
 an ongoing household survey of the American public that elicits
 information concerning recent crime victimization
 experiences. Questions asked in the supplement covered reasons for
 contact with police officer(s), characteristics of the officer, weapons
 used by the officer, whether there were any injuries involved in the
 confrontation between the household member and the officer, whether
 drugs were involved in the incident, type of offense the respondent
 was charged with, and whether any citizen action was
taken. Demographic variables include race, sex, and age.
Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1990: Alabama, Alaska, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia

Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) studies are
 designed to collect information by tracking adult offenders from the
 point of entry into the criminal justice system (typically by arrest)
 through final disposition, regardless of whether the offender is
 convicted or acquitted. Information is provided on arrest, police
 action, prosecutor action, level of charges, charges filed by the
 prosecutor, type of counsel, pretrial status, type of trial, sentence
 type, and sentence length. This allows researchers to examine how the
 criminal justice system processes offenders, to measure the changing
 volume of offenders moving through the different segments of the
 criminal justice system, to calculate processing time intervals
 between major decision-making events, and to assess the changing
structure of the offender population.
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Charged in Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 1995 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in federal criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 1995. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central System file. According to the EOUSA, the United States attorneys conduct approximately 95 percent of the prosecutions handled by the Department of Justice. The Central System data contain variables from the original EOUSA files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF" variables, that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security Number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.
National Survey of Jails: Jurisdiction-Level and Jail-Level Data, 1986

This data collection provides annual data on jail
 populations across the nation and examines the "spillover" effect on
 local jails resulting from the dramatic growth in federal and state
 prison populations. These data permit an assessment of the demands
 placed on correctional resources. Information is available on the
 number of inmates by sex, race, adult or juvenile status, reason being
held, and cause of death.
National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems (NSIDS), 1999

This survey collected nationwide data in order to: (1)
identify the number and characteristics of publicly financed indigent
defense systems and agencies in the United States, (2) measure how
legal services were provided to indigent criminal defendants in terms
of caseloads, workloads, policies, and practices, and (3) describe the
types of offenses handled by indigent defense system organizations.
The study was initially designed to permit measurable statistical
estimates at the national level for each region of the United States,
for individual states, and for the 100 most populous counties,
including the District of Columbia. However, due to resource and
financial constraints, the study was scaled back to collect indigent
criminal defense data at the trial level for (1) the 100 most populous
counties, (2) 197 counties outside the 100 most populous counties, and
(3) states that entirely funded indigent criminal defense services.
National Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 2001  

This study contains data from a survey of publicly operated
 forensic crime labs that perform deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
 testing. The survey was a follow-up to the initial survey of DNA crime
 labs in 1998 (ICPSR study 2879). The survey included questions about
 each lab's budget, personnel, procedures, equipment, and workloads in
 terms of known subject cases, unknown subject cases, and convicted
 offender DNA samples. The survey was sent to 135 forensic laboratories,
 and 124 responses were received from individual public laboratories and
 headquarters for statewide forensic crime laboratory systems. The
 responses included 110 publicly funded forensic laboratories that
performed DNA testing in 47 states.
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 2005 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 2005. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States District Courts' (AOUSC) criminal file. Defendants in criminal cases may be either individuals or corporations. There is one record for each defendant in each case filed. Included in the records are data from court proceedings and offense codes for up to five offenses charged at the time the case was filed. (The most serious charge at termination may differ from the most serious charge at case filing, due to plea bargaining or action of the judge or jury.) In a case with multiple charges against the defendant, a "most serious" offense charge is determined by a hierarchy of offenses based on statutory maximum penalties associated with the charges. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF variables," that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Tables 4.1-4.5 and 5.1-5.6. Variables containing information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.
National Survey of Court Organization, 1971-1972

The purpose of this study
was to document the existing organization of courts in the 50 states
and the District of Columbia as of 1971-1972. The survey covers all
appellate courts, courts of general jurisdiction, special courts, and
other courts of limited jurisdiction. Excluded were justices of the
peace and similar magistrates whose compensation is solely on a direct
fee basis, and courts of limited or special jurisdiction located in
municipalities or townships with a 1960 population of less than 1,000.
The data for courts include information on the organization of the
court, geographic location, type of court, level of government
administering the court, number, types, and full- or part-time status
of judicial and other personnel, method of appealing cases, location of
court records, and types of statistics. Court subdivision variables cover
organization of the courts, geographic location, type of
court, level of government administering the court, types of
jurisdiction, percentage of judges' time spent on types of cases,
availability of jury trials, and length of sentence and amounts of
fines which may be imposed by the court.
National Prosecutors Survey, 2005

The National Survey of Prosecutors is a biennial survey of
chief prosecutors in state court systems. A chief prosecutor is an
official, usually locally elected and typically with the title of
district attorney or county attorney, who is in charge of a
prosecutorial district made up of one or more counties, and who
conducts or supervises the prosecution of felony cases in a state
court system. Prosecutors in courts of limited jurisdiction, such as
municipal prosecutors, were not included in the survey. The survey's
purpose was to obtain detailed descriptive information on prosecutors'
offices, as well as information on their policies and practices. The
data collection instrument was based on questions that were included
in the NATIONAL PROSECUTORS SURVEY, 1994 (ICPSR 6785), and added
queries on topics of current concern. Variables cover staffing,
workload, funding, what type of computer access the office had,
whether the office was part of an integrated computerized system with
other specific criminal agencies, the use of DNA evidence in plea
negotiations of felony trials, which laboratories performed these DNA
analyses, juvenile matters, and risks associated with the role of the
prosecutor, such as threatening letters or calls, face-to-face
assaults, or batter/assaults. The unit of analysis is the district
office.
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Charged in Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 1996 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in federal criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 1996. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central System file. According to the EOUSA, the United States attorneys conduct approximately 95 percent of the prosecutions handled by the Department of Justice. The Central System data contain variables from the original EOUSA files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF" variables, that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security Number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 2006 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 2006. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States District Courts' (AOUSC) criminal file. Defendants in criminal cases may be either individuals or corporations. There is one record for each defendant in each case filed. Included in the records are data from court proceedings and offense codes for up to five offenses charged at the time the case was filed. (The most serious charge at termination may differ from the most serious charge at case filing, due to plea bargaining or action of the judge or jury.) In a case with multiple charges against the defendant, a "most serious" offense charge is determined by a hierarchy of offenses based on statutory maximum penalties associated with the charges. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF variables," that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Tables 4.1-4.5 and 5.1-5.6. Variables containing information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Charged in Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 1997 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in federal criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 1997. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central System file. According to the EOUSA, the United States attorneys conduct approximately 95 percent of the prosecutions handled by the Department of Justice. The Central System data contain variables from the original EOUSA files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF" variables, that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security Number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.
National Prisoner Statistics, 1978-2011

The National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) data collection began in 1926 in response to a congressional mandate to gather information on persons incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Originally under the auspices of the United States Census Bureau, the collection moved to the Bureau of Prisons in 1950, and then in 1971 to the National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service, the precursor to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) which was established in 1979.  Since 1979, the Census Bureau has been the NPS data collection agent.
The NPS is administered to 51 respondents. Before 2001, the District of Columbia was also a respondent, but responsibility for housing the District of Columbia's sentenced prisoners was transferred to the federal Bureau of Prisons, and by yearend 2001 the District of Columbia no longer operated a prison system.
The NPS provides an enumeration of persons in state and federal prisons and collects data on key characteristics of the nation's prison population.  NPS has been adapted over time to keep pace with the changing information needs of the public, researchers, and federal, state, and local governments.
National Justice Agency List, 1995   

The National Justice Agency List is a master name and
address file created and maintained by the Census Bureau for the
Bureau of Justice Statistics. The 1995 data provide information on 11
separate sectors of criminal justice agencies. Every sector file has
variables containing the names and addresses of agencies in that
sector and information relevant only to the agencies within the
sector. The following files comprise the collection: Part 1 -- Public
Defender Agencies: Variables include type of agency and agency
structure. Part 2 -- Law Enforcement Agencies: Variables include type
of agency and agency structure. Part 3 -- Courts: Variables include
type of agency and agency structure. Part 4 -- Probation and Parole
Agencies: Variables include type of agency. Part 5 -- Juvenile
Detention and Correctional Facilities: Variables include type of
facility, sex of residents, and resident population. Part 6 -- Local
Adult Corrections Agencies: Variables include number of female
inmates, number of male inmates, type of facility, and average daily
population of inmates. Part 7 -- State Adult Correctional Facilities:
Variables include type of institution, average daily population of
inmates, and sex of inmates. Part 8 -- Federal Adult Correctional
Facilities: Variables include type of facility, average daily
population of inmates, and sex of inmates. Part 9 -- Other Justice
Agencies: Variables include type of agency. Part 10 -- Prosecution and
Civil Attorney Agencies: Variables include type of agency and agency
structure. Part 11 -- Federal and Indian Tribal Agencies: Variables
include type of justice sector.
National Justice Agency List, 1992

The National Justice Agency List is a master name and
address file created and maintained by the Bureau of the Census for the
Bureau of Justice Statistics. The file contains information for the
following government justice agencies: law enforcement agencies,
juvenile correctional facilities, local jails, state correctional
facilities, and federal prisons. Variables include name of agency,
address, state and region identification, telephone number, FIPS code,
population, total workload, and number of professional and total
employees.
National Justice Agency List, 1987

The National Justice Agency List, 1987 is a master name and
address file created and maintained by the Bureau of the Census for the
Bureau of Justice Statistics. The file contains information for the
following topics: public defenders, law enforcement, courts, probation
enforcement, probation and parole, juvenile corrections, local adult
corrections, state adult corrections, federal adult corrections, and
other justice agencies. Variables include name of the agency, address,
state and region identification, telephone number, FIPS code,
population, total workload, and number of professional and total
employees.
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 2007 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 2007. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States District Courts' (AOUSC) criminal file. Defendants in criminal cases may be either individuals or corporations. There is one record for each defendant in each case filed. Included in the records are data from court proceedings and offense codes for up to five offenses charged at the time the case was filed. (The most serious charge at termination may differ from the most serious charge at case filing, due to plea bargaining or action of the judge or jury.) In a case with multiple charges against the defendant, a "most serious" offense charge is determined by a hierarchy of offenses based on statutory maximum penalties associated with the charges. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF variables," that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Tables 4.1-4.5 and 5.1-5.6. Variables containing information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 2008 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 2008. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States District Courts' (AOUSC) criminal file. Defendants in criminal cases may be either individuals or corporations. There is one record for each defendant in each case filed. Included in the records are data from court proceedings and offense codes for up to five offenses charged at the time the case was filed. (The most serious charge at termination may differ from the most serious charge at case filing, due to plea bargaining or action of the judge or jury.) In a case with multiple charges against the defendant, a "most serious" offense charge is determined by a hierarchy of offenses based on statutory maximum penalties associated with the charges. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF variables," that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Tables 4.1-4.5 and 5.1-5.6. Variables containing information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.