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Dynamic, Graph-Based Risk Assessments for the Detection of Violent Extremist Radicalization Trajectories Using Large Scale Social and Behavioral Data, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, 1994-2020

This project examines the trajectory of radicalization of jihadists and Incels with two broad objectives in mind. First, to develop new integrated computational technology that can mine, monitor, and screen for the occurrence of behaviors associated with dangerously escalating extremism in large heterogenous databases and provide early warnings of individuals or groups on behavioral trajectories toward extremist violence. Second, to harness data science methodologies to enable rapid, semi-automated support for law enforcement analysts and social science researchers to produce structured behavioral indicator profiles from text sources.
The study operated from the premise that being that violent extremists are a rare, complex phenomenon, it is futile to search for a profile of extremism. Rather, it is better to focus on explaining how people come to embrace violent extremism. This path, referred to here as a radicalization trajectory, implies that an arc exists leading the perpetrator from entertaining extremist ideas to action, and that there is a somewhat predictable pathway from a normal, if perhaps angry state, to the perpetration of a violent attack in the name of the ideology. Two teams were combined to analyze radicalization trajectories: data collection and analysis led by Brandeis University and technology development led by Colorado State University (CSU).
The questions revolving around the technological development were as follows: Can tools that rigorously examine and account for the activities of close associates better predict the likelihood that an individual would engage in violent extremism? Which risk assessment indicators for violent extremism in the extant literature are detectable via automated or semi-automated technologies, and what databases and datasets must be integrated to facilitate this detection? Can computationally efficient tools be used to mine these databases for the specific purposes of monitoring and screening for individuals and small groups posing a significant risk for violence?
Users should refer to the data collection notes field below for additional information about study citation.
Mapping the School to Prison Pipeline in North Carolina, 1972-2016

This project was centered on the apparent tension between keeping schools safe and keeping students attached to school. The project used comprehensive administrative data from the North Carolina public school system available through the North Carolina Education Research Data Center (NCERDC). 
This dataset, along with juvenile court record data and publicly-available data from the North Carolina adult criminal justice system, linked administrative information from the same individuals in both school disciplinary records and the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. The ultimate goal of this project was to determine if different policy choices by schools causally decrease rates of in-school violence in the short run and/or increase rates of conviction and incarceration in the long term.
Police Officer Learning, Mentoring, and Racial Bias in Traffic Stops, Syracuse, New York, 2006-2009

This project is concerned with understanding the determinants of racial bias in police traffic stops and  in the city of Syracuse, New York. Using an officer-level panel of data on vehicle stops and vehicle searches by 512 officers from 2006 to 2009, the primary goal of this research is to better understand the effects of officer experience on their proclivities for racial bias in traffic stops, while controlling for officer, citizen, and neighborhood demographics.
Included in these data are variables for census tracts as well as their racial and ethnic makeup, times and dates when traffic stops occurred, sunrise and sunset data for the City of Syracuse, and the racial and ethnic makeup of citizens involved in stops.
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Census Tract Crosswalk, 1994-2002

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) is a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. The crosswalk file contains census tract to neighborhood cluster level data, enabling researchers to merge and aggregate additional crime and census data with the PHDCN data. Access to these data is restricted. Users must provide justification for their request to access the crosswalk file, as well as a description of any datasets they plan to link to the PHDCN data.
Cross-Site Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Demonstration Programs, United States, 2011-2016

The cross-site evaluation of the Adult Offender Reentry Demonstration Projects (AORDP) was a seven-site study designed to 1) describe the implementation and sustainability of each AORDP project through a process evaluation, 2) determine the per capita program costs of each AORDP project through a cost study, and 3) determine the effectiveness of the programs through a multicomponent outcome study. The seven evaluation sites were located in California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The objectives of the outcome evaluation were to determine the effects of program participation on recidivism and other outcomes and assess whether program participation increased engagement in services, including substance abuse treatment and mental health services. The outcome evaluation consisted of two components:
1. Cross-site prospective study designed to collect longitudinal survey data with a sample of program participants and appropriate comparison or control subjects to assess the impact of the SCA funding on access to services and reentry outcomes, such as substance use, employment, housing, and health. 
2. Site-specific recidivism analyses using administrative data to assess the impact of AORDP program participation on recidivism outcomes for all individuals enrolled in the AORDP programs and a matched comparison group in each site
Evidence-Based Screening and Assessment: A Randomized Trial of a Validated Assessment Tool in Three New York City Drug Courts, 2011-2015

With funding from the National Institute of Justice, the Center for Court Innovation examined the impact of introducing an evidence-based risk-need assessment and treatment matching protocol into three New York City drug courts. Preexisting practice in all three sites involved administration of a non-validated bio-psychosocial assessment, whose results informed the professional judgment of court-employed case managers, but without the aid of a structured decision making system.
Enhancing School Resource Officers Effectiveness through Online Professional and Job Embedded Coaching, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2018-2020

This pilot project was aimed at promoting the skills of School Resource Officers, through an innovative online professional development platform. Conducted in partnership with Florida Public Schools, this project involved the development, testing, and refinement of online modules around trauma-informed care, social emotional learning, restorative problem-solving, and cultural competence. After development of the four modules, a small pilot evaluation was conducted with K-12 School Security Professionals to assess for efficacy and scalability. The survey assessed knowledge retention, and gathered demographic information including: age, gender, race/ethnicity, and education level.
A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Capturing Kids' Hearts, South Carolina, 2016-2018

Funded by the National Institute of Justice, and in collaboration with the Flippen Group, the South Carolina Department of Education, and the districts of Charleston, Georgetown, Greenville, and Richland County Schools, WestEd conducted a randomized controlled trial of violence prevention and a school climate improvement program known as Capturing Kids' Hearts Campus by Design (CKH).
CKH is a skill intensive, systematic process, whole-school intervention, designed to strengthen students' connectedness to school through enhancing protective factors (strong bonds with teachers, clear rules of conduct that are consistently enforced) and targeting modifiable risk factors (inappropriate behavior, poor social coping skills). The CKH training program aims to address the mechanisms and processes of social skills instruction that lead to improved student behavior by promoting skills acquisition (i.e., modeling, coaching, and behavioral rehearsal), enhancing skills performance, removing competing behavior, and facilitating maintenance of social skills.
Components of CKH have been widely used throughout the United States. As of 2013, CKH training has been offered to over 200,000 staff in more than 7,000 schools. Although widely used, the whole package of CKH training and service has not been sufficiently subjected to a rigorous evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the program.
The purpose of this study is to test and evaluate the Capturing Kids' Hearts package of programs and processes offered in the school-wide model, CKH Campus by Design, which includes Capturing Kids' Hearts, Process Champions-Plus, Campus TrAction Pacs, Teen Leadership, CKH Recharged, and Leadership Blueprint.
National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence II, 1993-2012 [United States]

The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) series involved three rounds of data collection, NatSCEV I (baseline), this study NatSCEV II, and NatSCEV III. For more information on other parts to the series, please use the following links:
NatSCEV I (ICPSR 35203) - http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35203.v1
NatSCEV III (ICPSR 36523) - http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36523.v1
The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence II was designed to obtain lifetime and one-year incidence estimates of a comprehensive range of childhood victimizations across gender, race, and developmental stage. Conducted between March, 2011 and January, 2012, it assessed the experiences of a nationally representative sample of 4,503 children aged 1 month to 18 years living in the contiguous United States (excluding New Hampshire). 
A nationwide sample which excluded any phone numbers with area codes assigned within the state of New Hampshire was constructed using four frames: (1) 801,317 landline telephone numbers from which telephone households could be drawn by random digit dialing (RDD); (2) 5,000 cell-phone telephone numbers from which a sample of cell phone users could be drawn by RDD; (3) an address-based sample (ABS) of 70,924 cell phone and residential numbers; and (4) a pre-screened sample of 3,573 telephone numbers of households with children from a recent national RDD survey. The compiled frame yielded 3,259 residential RDD interviews, 31 cell phone RDD interviews, 750 ABS interviews, and 463 pre-screened sample interviews for a total of 4,503 interviews.
A short interview was conducted with an adult caregiver (usually a parent) to obtain family demographic information. One child was randomly selected from all eligible children in a household by selecting the child with the most recent birthday. If the selected child was 1 month to 9 years old, the main interview was conducted with the caregiver. If the selected child was 10-17 years old, the main interview was conducted with the child.
The survey used an enhanced version of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ), an inventory of childhood victimization. This version of the JVQ obtains reports on 53 forms of offenses against youth that cover six general areas of concern including: conventional crime, child maltreatment, peer and sibling victimization, sexual victimization, witnessing and indirect victimization, and internet victimization. Follow-up questions for each victimization item gathered additional information about the victimization incident.
National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence III, 1997-2014 [United States]

The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) series involved three rounds of data collection, NatSCEV I (baseline), NatSCEV II, and this study, NatSCEV III. For more information on other parts to the series, please use the following links: 
NatSCEV I  (ICPSR 35203) - http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35203.v1
NatSCEV II (ICPSR 36177) - http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36177.v1 
The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence III was designed to obtain lifetime and one-year incidence estimates of a comprehensive range of childhood victimizations across gender, race, and developmental stage. Conducted between August 2013 and April 2014, it assessed the experiences of a nationally representative sample of 4,000 children less than 18 years of age living in the contiguous United States (excluding New Hampshire).
A short interview was conducted with an adult caregiver (usually a parent) to obtain family demographic information. One child was randomly selected from all eligible children in a household by selecting the child with the most recent birthday. If the selected child was 1 month to 9 years old, the main interview was conducted with the caregiver. If the selected child was 10-17 years old, the main interview was conducted with the child.The NatSCEV III questionnaire was very similar to the previous wave minus the extended family exposure to violence follow-up section that was included in NatSCEV II. The questionnaire asked for household demographics and questions about the focal child's health. A series of 52 juvenile victimization screening questions (JVQ) were asked, and for every screener the respondent endorsed, a series of follow-up questions about that victimization was asked. In addition, the survey included sections on lifetime and past year adversity, internet victimization, community disorder, bullying, delinquency, and the child/parent relationship.
National Youth Survey [United States]:  Wave VII, 1987

Youth data for the seventh wave of the National Youth
Survey are contained in this collection. This research project,
designed to gain a better understanding of both conventional and
deviant types of behavior by youths, involved collecting information
from a representative sample of young people in the United States. The
first wave of this survey was conducted in 1976 (ICPSR 8375), the
second in 1977 (ICPSR 8424), the third in 1978 (ICPSR 8506), the
fourth in 1979 (ICPSR 8917), the fifth in 1980 (ICPSR 9112), and the
sixth in 1983 (ICPSR 9948). For this wave, young adults were
interviewed in early 1987 about events and behavior occurring in
calendar year 1986, when they were 20 to 29 years of age. Data are
available on the demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents,
parents and friends, neighborhood problems, education, employment,
skills, aspirations, encouragement, normlessness, attitudes toward
deviance, exposure to delinquent peers, self-reported depression,
delinquency, drug and alcohol use, victimization, pregnancy, abortion,
use of mental health and outpatient services, violence by respondent
and acquaintances, use of controlled drugs, and sexual activity.
Law-Related Education Evaluation Project [United States], 1979-1984

This data collection contains information gathered to
evaluate certain activities of a number of organizations dedicated to
the advancement of law-related education (LRE) in elementary, junior
high, and senior high schools. The organizations whose activities were
evaluated were (1) the Constitution Rights Foundation, (2) Law in a
Free Society, (3) the National Street Law Institute, (4) the American
Bar Association's Special Committee on Youth Education for
Citizenship, (5) the Children's Legal Rights Information and Training
Program, and (6) the Phi Alpha Delta Committee for Juvenile
Justice. The evaluation research dealt primarily with two types of
issues: (1) the degree of increase in awareness of and receptivity
toward LRE among the nation's educators, juvenile justice, and other
related professionals, as well as the degree of institutionalization
of LRE in certain targeted states (i.e., California, Michigan, and
North Carolina), and (2) the degree to which LRE could produce changes
in students' knowledge of and attitudes about the law, and reduce
juvenile delinquency (measured both by self-reported delinquency rates
and by attitudes previously shown to be correlated with delinquent
behavior). In 1981 (Part 1) and again in 1982 (Part 2), questionnaires
were mailed to a sample of professionals in state educational
organizations as well as to elementary and secondary school
principals, juvenile justice specialists, juvenile and family court
judges, police chiefs, and law school deans. Respondents were asked
whether they had heard of the various projects, what they thought of
LRE in terms of its impact on students and usefulness in the
curriculum, whether LRE should be required, what type of publicity had
contributed to their awareness of LRE, and the degree of involvement
they would be willing to have in promoting or developing LRE
programs. In a second component of the study, primary and secondary
school students were selected for an impact evaluation of the LRE
activities run by the six organizations under evaluation.
Questionnaires were administered to students during academic years
1982-1983 (Part 3) and 1983-1984 (Part 4), before and after
participating in LRE courses offered by the programs under
evaluation. Control students (not taking LRE courses) were also used
for the comparisons. The questionnaires tested the knowledge,
attitudes (measuring such factors as isolation from school, delinquent
peer influence, negative labeling, and attitudes toward violence), and
self-reported delinquency of school children. Demographic information
collected about the student respondents includes sex, age, race, grade
in school, and grade-point average.
National Youth Survey [United States]:  Wave II, 1977

Youth data for the second wave of the National Youth Survey
are contained in this data collection. The first wave was conducted in
1976 (ICPSR 8375). Youths were interviewed in early 1978 about events
and behavior that had occurred in 1977. Data were collected on
demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents, aspirations,
social isolation, normlessness, labeling, attitudes toward deviance,
exposure to delinquent peers, commitment to delinquent peers, sex
roles, interpersonal violence, exposure to substance abuse,
self-reported delinquency, drug and alcohol use, and victimization.
Juvenile Court Statistics, 1985: [United States]

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the 
 volume of juvenile cases disposed by courts having jurisdiction over 
 juvenile matters (delinquency, status, and dependency cases). 
 Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before 
 the juvenile courts, this collection is the oldest continuous source of 
 information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth done by 
 juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of 
 delinquency cases by sex, number of dependency cases by sex, and total 
number of cases.
Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1984-1987

This data collections provides information on each juvenile 
 case disposed in the state of Missouri during calendar years 1984-1987. 
 The state of Missouri began collecting and disseminating juvenile court 
 data in 1975 as the result of legislation by the Division of Youth 
 Services within the Department of Social Services. Despite this 
 legislation no binding laws required the courts to submit data to the 
 Division of Youth Services. In 1980, such a law was passed, and data 
 were first collected in 1982 and 1983. The system was automated in 
 1984, and these data are now available for public use. The data files 
 provide information on juveniles' progress through the juvenile justice 
 system from the time of referral to juvenile court to final 
 disposition. Variables include sex, race, and birth date of the 
 juveniles, court referral date, major allegation, number of law 
 violations, number of prior referrals, detention status, jail status, 
court orders, placement status, and final court action.
National Youth Survey [United States]:  Wave III, 1978

Youth data for the third wave of the National Youth Survey
are contained in this data collection, which includes data for youth
interviewed in 1979 about events and behavior of the preceding year.
The first wave of this study was conducted in 1976 (ICPSR 8375) and the
second wave in 1977 (ICPSR 8424). Data were collected on the
demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents, disruptive events
in the home, youth aspirations, expectations for future goals, social
isolation, normlessness, labeling, perceived disapproval, attitudes
toward deviance, exposure and commitment to delinquent peers, sex
roles, attitudes toward sexual assault, interpersonal violence,
pressure for substance abuse by peers, exposure to substance abuse by
parents, self-reported delinquency, and drug and alcohol use.
Juvenile Court Statistics, 1983 [United States]

This data collection describes the volume of juvenile cases
disposed of during calendar year 1983 in courts having jurisdiction
over juvenile matters (delinquency and dependency/neglect cases) in the
fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the
Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. This collection is part of the oldest
continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and
dependent youth done by juvenile courts, a record inaugurated in 1926.
It furnishes an index of the general nature and extent of the problems
brought before the juvenile courts.
National Youth Survey [United States]:  Wave IV, 1979

Youth data for the fourth wave of the National Youth Survey
are contained in this data collection. The first wave of this survey
was conducted in 1976 (ICPSR 8375), the second wave in 1977 (ICPSR
8424), and the third wave in 1978 (ICPSR 8506). Data are available in
this wave on the demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents,
disruptive events in the home, youth aspirations and expectations,
social isolation, normlessness, perceived disapproval by parents and
peers, attitudes toward deviance, exposure and commitment to delinquent
peers, sex roles, interpersonal violence, pressure for substance abuse
by peers, self-reported delinquency, drug and alcohol use, and
victimization.
Juvenile Court Statistics, 1984: [United States]

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the
 volume of juvenile cases disposed by courts having jurisdiction over
 juvenile matters (delinquency, status and dependency cases). This
 collection is the oldest continuous source of information on the
 processing of delinquent and dependent youth done by juvenile courts,
 a record inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems
 brought before the juvenile courts. Information is provided on state,
 county, number of delinquency cases by sex, number of dependency cases
by sex, and total number of cases.