AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Law Enforcement Training for Domestic Violence Cases in a Southwestern City in Texas, 1997-1999

This study was an outcome evaluation of the effects of the
Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project Training Model for Law
Enforcement Response on police officer attitudes toward domestic
violence. Data on the effectiveness of the training were collected by
means of an attitude survey of law enforcement officers (Part
1). Additionally, two experimental designs (Part 2) were implemented
to test the effects of the Duluth model training on (1) time spent by
police officers at the scene of a domestic violence incident, and (2)
the number of convictions. Variables for Part 1 include the assigned
research group and respondents' level of agreement with various
statements, such as: alcohol is the primary cause of family violence,
men are more likely than women to be aggressive, only mentally ill
people batter their families, mandatory arrest of offenders is the
best way to reduce repeat episodes of violence, family violence is a
private matter, law enforcement policies are ineffective for
preventing family violence, children of single-parent, female-headed
families are abused more than children of dual-parent households, and
prosecution of an offender is unlikely regardless of how well a victim
cooperates. Index scores calculated from groupings of various
variables are included as well as whether the respondent found
training interesting, relevant, well-organized, and
useful. Demographic variables for each respondent include race,
gender, age, and assignment and position in the police department.
Variables for Part 2 include whether the domestic violence case
occurred before or after training, to which test group the case
belongs, the amount of time in minutes spent on the domestic violence
scene, and whether the case resulted in a conviction.
Examination of Homicides in Houston, Texas, 1985-1994  

As a contribution to nationwide efforts to more thoroughly
 understand urban violence, this study was conducted to assess the
 impact of cultural dynamics on homicide rates in Houston, Texas, and
 to profile homicides in the city from 1985 to 1994. This data
 collection provides the results of quantitative analysis of data
 collected from all Houston homicide cases recorded in the police
 murder logs for 1985-1994. Variables describe the homicide
 circumstances, the victim-offender relationship, the type of weapon
 used, and any drug- or gang-related activity involved. Other variables
 include the year and month in which the homicide occurred, whether the
 homicide occurred on a weekday or over the weekend, the motive of the
 homicide, whether the homicide was drug-related, whether the case was
 cleared by police at time of data entry, weapon type and means of
 killing, the relationship between the victim and the offender, whether
 a firearm was the homicide method, whether it was a multiple victim
 incident or multiple offender incident, whether the victim or the
 offender was younger than age 15, and the inter-racial relationship
 between the victim and the offender. Demographic variables include
age, sex, and race of the victim as well as the offender.
Effectiveness of a Joint Police and Social Services Response to Elder Abuse in Manhattan [New York City], New York, 1996-1997  

This project consisted of an evaluation of an elder abuse
 program run by the New York Police Department and Victim Services
 Research. The focus of the study was domestic elder abuse, which
 generally refers to any of several forms of maltreatment, physical
 abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, neglect, and/or financial
 exploitation of an older person. The program, conducted in New York
 City public housing, had two complementary parts. First, public
 housing projects in Manhattan were assigned to one of two levels of
 public education (i.e., to receive or not to receive educational
 materials about elder abuse). Once the public education treatment had
 been implemented, 403 older adult residents of the housing projects
 who reported elder abuse to the police during the next ten months were
 assigned to one of two levels of follow-up to the initial police
 response (i.e., to receive or not to receive a home visit) as the
 second part of the project. The home visit intervention consisted of a
 strong law enforcement response designed to prevent repeat incidents
 of elder abuse. A team from the Domestic Violence Intervention and
 Education Program (DVIEP), consisting of a police officer and a social
 worker, followed up on domestic violence complaints with a home visit
 within a few days of the initial patrol response. Victims were
 interviewed about new victimizations following the intervention on
 three occasions: six weeks after the trigger incident, six months
 after the trigger incident, and twelve months after the trigger
 incident. Interviews at the three time points were identical except
 for the omission of background information on the second and third
 interviews. Demographic data collected during the first interview
 included age, gender, ethnicity, education, employment, income, legal
 relationship with abuser, living situation, number of people in the
 household, and health. For each time point, data provide measures of
 physical, psychological, and financial abuse, knowledge of elder
 abuse, knowledge and use of social services, satisfaction with the
 police, assessment of service delivery, and self-esteem and
 well-being. The DVIEP databases maintained on households at each of
 the three participating Police Service Areas (PSAs) were searched to
 identify new police reports of elder abuse for households in the
 sample within 12 months following the trigger incident. Variables from
 the DVIEP databases include age, race, ethnicity, and sex of the
 victim and the perpetrator, relationship of perpetrator to victim,
 type of abuse reported, charge, whether an arrest was made, if an
 order of protection had been obtained, if the order of protection was
 violated, use of weapons, if the victim had been injured, and if the
 victim was taken to the hospital. Several time lapse variables between
different time points are also provided.
Survey of Prosecutors' Views on Children and Domestic Violence in the United States, 1999  

This survey of prosecutors was undertaken to describe
current practice and identify "promising practices" with respect to
cases involving domestic violence and child victims or witnesses. It
sought to answer the following questions: (1) What are the challenges
facing prosecutors when children are exposed to domestic violence? (2)
How are new laws regarding domestic violence committed in the presence of
children, now operating in a small number of states, affecting
practice? (3) What can prosecutors do to help battered women and their
children? To gather data on these topics, the researchers conducted a
national telephone survey of prosecutors. Questions asked include case
assignment, jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office, caseload,
protocol for coordinating cases, asking about domestic violence when
investigating child abuse cases, asking about children when
investigating domestic violence cases, and how the respondent found
out when a child abuse case involved domestic violence or when a
domestic violence case involved children. Other variables cover
whether police routinely checked for prior Child Protective Services
(CPS) reports, if these cases were heard by the same judge, in the
same court, and were handled by the same prosecutor, if there were
laws identifying exposure to domestic violence as child abuse, if
there were laws applying or enhancing criminal penalties when children
were exposed to domestic violence, if the state legislature was
considering any such action, if prosecutors were using other avenues
to enhance penalties, if there was pertinent caselaw, and if the
respondent's office had a no-drop policy for domestic violence
cases. Additional items focus on whether the presence of children
influenced decisions to prosecute, if the office would report or
prosecute a battered woman who abused her children, or failed to
protect her children from abuse or from exposure to domestic violence,
how often the office prosecuted such women, if there was a batterers'
treatment program in the community, how often batterers were sentenced
to attend the treatment program, if there were programs to which the
respondent could refer battered mothers and children, what types of
programs were operating, and if prosecutors had received training on
domestic violence issues.
Outcome Evaluation of the Wisconsin Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program: The Mental Illness Chemical Abuse (MICA) Program at Oshkosh Correctional Institution, 1997-2000

This study evaluated the Mental Illness-Chemical Abuse
(MICA) Program at Oshkosh Correctional Institution in Wisconsin. MICA
is a residential substance abuse treatment program that consists of
three stages: (1) an 8- to 12-month residential therapeutic community
stage, (2) an institutional aftercare stage, and (3) a community
aftercare stage. This outcome study documented important aspects of
program implementation and effectiveness. It included all 141 inmates
admitted to MICA between October 1997 and March 2000. A control group
comprised of 66 inmates who were too close to their mandatory release
dates to participate in the program but who were otherwise eligible
was also included. Data were gathered from Department of Corrections
administrative records regarding admissions information, assessment
results, institutional behavior, institutional placement and services
after program completion or exit, and recidivism. MICA staff provided
information on treatment progress, behavior, and mental health
status. MICA outreach specialists provided three-month post-release
data on community outcomes for MICA graduates. Parole agents provided
three-month post-release data on parole compliance and recidivism for
all study participants. Variables include assessment results,
institutional services received, history of incarceration, urinalysis
testing, changes in mental health status and program behavior
throughout treatment, clinical test results, conduct reports,
institutional placement and services after MICA, whether the
individual had appropriate resources upon release to the community,
parole status, recidivism, mental health and chemical use status after
release, support services provided by MICA staff after release, and
other support services received after release.
Assessing the Validity and Reliability of National Data on Citizen Complaints about Police Use of Force, 2003 and 2007

These data are part of the 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 excepted as noted below. All direct identifiers have been removed and replaced with text enclosed in square brackets (e.g.[MASKED]). Due to the masking of select information, variables/content described in the data documentation may not actually be available as part of the collection. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.
This collection is one part of the Department of Justice's response to 42 USC 14142, a law which requires the U.S. Attorney General to 1) "acquire data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers" and 2) "publish an annual summary of the data." Researchers compared agency-level data reported in the 2003 (ICPSR 4411) and 2007 (ICPSR 31161) waves of the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) surveys with available external sources including publicly available reports and direct contact with agency personnel. The purpose of this study was to assess validity and reliability of the available agency-level reported data on citizen complaints about police use of force.
Evaluation of the Shreveport, Louisiana Predictive Policing Programs, 2011-2012


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 collection was part of a larger two-phase project funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Phase I focused on the development and estimation of predictive crime models in Shreveport, Louisiana and Chicago, Illinois. Phase II involved the implementation of a prevention model using the predictive model. To evaluate the two predictive policing pilot programs funded by NIJ, RAND evaluated the predictive and preventative models employed by the Shreveport Police Department titled Predictive Intelligence Led Operational Targeting (PILOT). RAND evaluated whether PILOT was associated with a measurable reduction in crime. The data were used to determine whether or not there was a statistically significant reduction in property crime counts in treated districts versus control districts in Shreveport.


The collection includes 1 Excel file (Shreveport_Predictve_Policing_Evaluation_Experiment_Data.xlsx (n=91; 8 variables)) related only to the property crime aspect of the study.  Neither data used to perform the outcomes evaluation for the Chicago Police Department experiment nor qualitative data used to help perform the prediction and prevention model evaluations are available.
Comparative Evaluation of Court-Based Responses to Offenders with Mental Illnesses, Cook County, Illinois, 1953-2014

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 study was designed to provide a mixed methods comparative evaluation of three established court-based programs that serve offenders with serious mental illness (SMI). These programs were selected in response to criticism of similar research for studying young programs that are still in development, employing short follow up periods that are unable to indicate sustained effectiveness, and utilizing less than ideal comparison conditions. The study was conducted in Cook County, Illinois, and data were collected from three distinct court-based programs: the Cook County Felony Mental Health Court (MHC) which serves individuals with SMI who have been arrested for nonviolent felonies, the Specialized Mental Health Probation Unit which involves specially trained probation officers who supervise a reduced caseload of probationers diagnosed with SMI, and the Cook County Adult Probation Department which has an active caseload of approximately 25,000 probationers, a portion of whom have SMI. Probation officer interviews were coded for themes regarding beliefs about the relationship between mental illness and crime, views on the purpose of their program, and approaches used with probationers with SMI. The coding of probationer interviews focused on experiences related to having SMI and being on probation, including: the extent to which probation was involved with mental health treatment; development of awareness of mental health issues; evaluations of the programs based on subjective experiences; and the relationship dynamics between probationers and staff.
The collection includes 3 Stata data files: DRI-R_data_for_NACJD_041315.dta with 98 cases and 61 variables, Epperson_NIJ_Quantitative_Data_for_NACJD_041315.dta with 25203 cases and 49 variables, and incarceration_data_061515.dta with 676 cases and 4 variables. The qualitative data are not available as part of this data collection at this time.
Documentation of Resident to Resident Elder Mistreatment in Residential Care Facilities, New York City, 2009-2013

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.

The purpose of this study was to investigate violence and aggression committed by nursing home residents that is directed toward other residents, referred to here as resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM). Resident-to-resident mistreatment (R-REM) was defined as: negative and aggressive physical, sexual, or verbal interactions between long term care residents, that in a community setting would likely be construed as unwelcome and have high potential to cause physical or psychological distress in the recipient.

The goals of this project were to: enhance institutional recognition of R-REM; examine the convergence of R-REM reports across different methodologies; identify the most accurate mechanism for detecting and reporting R-REM; develop profiles of persons involved with R-REM by reporting source; investigate existing R-REM policies, and; develop institutional guidelines for reporting R-REM episodes. Also, the project team sought to answer the following research questions: (1) Will the reporting of R-REM differ by source? (2) Which reporting methods will show the highest level of convergence and accuracy in reporting? (3) What resident characteristics or profiles will predict R-REM across the differing reporting sources? (4) What are the existing guidelines and/or institutional policies for reporting R-REM? To achieve these goals, the researcher conducted this study over a two week period in five urban and five suburban New York City facilities. Resident-to-resident abuse information was derived from five sources: (1) resident interviews (2) staff informants (3) observational data (behavior sheets) (4) resident chart reviews (5) incident and accident reports.
Study of Sworn Nonfederal Law Enforcement Officers Arrested in the United States, 2005-2011

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 expect 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) is further information is needed.
This collection is composed of archived news articles and court records reporting (n=6,724) on the arrest(s) of law enforcement officers in the United States from 2005-2011. Police crimes are those crimes committed by sworn law enforcement officers given the general powers of arrest at the time the offense was committed. These crimes can occur while the officer is on or off duty and include offenses committed by state, county, municipal, tribal, or special law enforcement agencies.Three distinct but related research questions are addressed in this collection:What is the incidence and prevalence of police officers arrested across the United States? How do law enforcement agencies discipline officers who are arrested?To what degree do police crime arrests correlate with other forms of police misconduct?
Social Bonds Across Immigration Generations and the Immigrant School Enclave: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study of Student Violence, School Disorder, and Dropping Out, United States, 2002

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they there received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except of the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompany readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collections and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.
This study consists of a secondary analysis of data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS) to investigate associations between immigration, misbehavior, victimization, disorder, and educational failure (i.e., dropping out). Six research questions that were addressed in this study include: do school social bonds vary across immigration generations? Second, is student violence (i.e., misbehavior and victimization) explained by school social bonds across generations? Third, are student violence and school disorder related to the children immigrants' likelihood of dropping out? Fourth, are strong school social bonds mitigating the likelihood of dropping out for the children of immigrants? Fifth, are immigrant school enclaves associated with increased school social bonds among adolescents, decreased student violence and school disorder, and lower levels of dropping out? Sixth, does the intersection of race, ethnicity, and gender moderate the relationship between student violence and school social bonds for the children of immigrants?There are no data files available with this study. Only the syntax file used by the researcher is provided.
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): School Screen, Wave 3, 2000-2002

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. One such
measure was the School Screen. This instrument was administered to
subjects' primary caregivers in Cohorts 3, 6, and 9. It focused on
parental involvement at school and educational expectations for the
subject, history of special classifications of the subject,
after-school activities of the subject, and the absence or presence of
certain cognitive stimuli, including varied learning experiences and
diverse educational materials. It contained some of the school-related
questions from PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS
(PHDCN): HOME AND LIFE INTERVIEW, WAVE 2, 1997-2000 (ICPSR 13630). It
is closely related to PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO
NEIGHBORHOODS (PHDCN): SCHOOL SCREEN, WAVE 1, 1994-1997 (ICPSR 13600)
and PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS (PHDCN):
SCHOOL AND DAY CARE SCREEN, WAVE 2, 1997-2000 (ICPSR 13653).