Datasets
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Implementation of Community Corrections in Oregon, Colorado, and Connecticut [1981]
Data were collected from three states to evaluate the success of community corrections programs and to identify the conditions that underlie these successes. In-person field... -
National Assessment of Criminal Justice Needs, 1983: [United States]
In 1983, the National Institute of Justice sponsored a program evaluation survey by Abt Associates that was designed to identify the highest priority needs for management and... -
Learning Deficiencies Among Adult Inmates, 1982: Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington
The National Institute of Justice sponsored this study of 1,065 prison inmates in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Respondents were administered an academic achievement... -
Judicial Decision Guidelines for Bail: The Philadelphia Experiment, 1981-1982
The purpose of this study was to test the utility of draft guidelines in informing judicial decisions about bail. A sample of judges, based upon a stratified quota sampling... -
Armed Criminals in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons, 1983
The data for this study were collected using self-administered questionnaires given to a nonprobability sample of incarcerated felons in ten states. Information in the data... -
Drinking and Driving: A Survey of Licensed Drivers in the United States, 1983
This study focuses on the drinking and driving habits of Americans. The questionnaire contained 51 questions. Respondents were interviewed over the telephone and asked about... -
Forensic Evidence and the Police, 1976-1980
This data collection focuses on adult cases of serious crime such as homicide (and related death investigations), rape, robbery, aggravated assault/battery, burglary, and arson.... -
Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979
This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975 (ICPSR 7760). Information is included on 4,095 reported incidents of aggravated... -
Arrests Without Conviction, 1979-1980: Jacksonville and San Diego
This data collection includes information on robberies and burglaries in two cities, Jacksonville, Florida, and San Diego, California. The unit of analysis is defendants in... -
Survey of Jail and Prison Inmates, 1978: California, Michigan, Texas
This survey was was conducted as part of the Rand Corporation's research program on career criminals. Rand's Second Inmate Survey was administered in late 1978 and early 1979 to... -
Crime, Fear, and Control in Neighborhood Commercial Centers: Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1970-1982
The major objective of this study was to examine how physical characteristics of commercial centers and demographic characteristics of residential areas contribute to crime and... -
Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime, 1948-1977 [Racine, Wisconsin]: City Ecological Data
These data, intended for use in conjunction with JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND ADULT CRIME, 1948-1977 [RACINE, WISCONSIN]: THREE BIRTH COHORTS (ICPSR 8163), are organized into two... -
Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime, 1948-1977 [Racine, Wisconsin]: Three Birth Cohorts
This data collection contains information on juvenile delinquency and adult crime for three birth cohorts born in 1942, 1949, and 1955 in Racine, Wisconsin. These individual-... -
Reactions to Crime Project, 1977 [Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco]: Survey on Fear of Crime and Citizen Behavior
This survey was conducted by the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University to gather information for two projects that analyzed the impact of crime... -
SLATS Truck Theft Data of New York City, 1976-1980
This data collection is one of three quantitative databases comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on... -
Port Authority Cargo Theft Data of New Jersey and New York, 1978-1980
This data collection is one of three quantitative databases comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on... -
Xenon (New Jersey) Commercial Burglary Data, 1979-1981
This data collection is one of three quantitative databases comprising the Commercial Theft Studies component of the Study of the Causes of Crime for Gain, which focuses on... -
Inmate Victimization in State Prisons in the United States, 1979
This data collection was designed to determine the nature and extent of victimization in state prisons across the nation. In particular, it examines topics such as prison living... -
Citizen Participation and Community Crime Prevention, 1979: Chicago Metropolitan Area Survey
This survey was conducted as part of the Citizen Participation and Community Crime Prevention project at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern... -
Civil Litigation in the United States, 1977-1979
The Civil Litigation Research Project, based at the University of Wisconsin Law School, was organized in 1979 to develop a large database on dispute processing and litigation...