Datasets
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National Victim Assistance Agency Survey, 1992
This data collection examines victim assistance programs that are operated by law enforcement agencies, prosecutor's offices, and independent assistance agencies. Victim... -
Evaluation of the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) Program in the United States, 1995-1999
This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the Gang Resistance Education And Training (GREAT) program by surveying five different groups: students in a cross-sectional... -
National Evaluation of the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grant Program, 1996-1999
This study evaluated the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) incentive grant program enacted in 1994. The program provided grants to states to be used... -
Longitudinal Evaluation of Chicago's Community Policing Program, 1993-2001
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term organizational transition of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to a community policing model. The Chicago Alternative... -
Evaluation of No-Drop Policies for Domestic Violence Cases in San Diego, California, Omaha, Nebraska, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Everett, Washington, 1996-2000
This study sought to examine the effects of no-drop policies on court outcomes, victim satisfaction with the justice system, and feelings of safety. Moreover, researchers wanted... -
Violence Against Women: Developmental Antecedents Among Black, Caucasian, and Hispanic Women in the United States, 1987-1988 and 1992-1994
The aim of this study was to examine the factors related to different patterns of male violence against women. Employing both intra-individual and sociocultural perspectives,... -
National Survey of Investigations in the Community Policing Context, 1997
This survey collected descriptive information from municipal police departments and sheriffs offices across the United States to determine whether the departments had... -
Evaluating a Multi-Disciplinary Response to Domestic Violence in Colorado Springs, 1996-1999
The Colorado Springs Police Department formed a nontraditional domestic violence unit in 1996 called the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT). This unit involved a... -
Process Evaluation of Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in Maine, 1999-2000
The State of Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) and the Office of Substance Abuse (OSA) at the Maine Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse... -
Profiling Inmates in the Los Angeles County Jail, 1996-1998
By 1996 it became apparent that the Los Angeles county jails faced a serious overcrowding problem. Two possible solutions to the problem were to build more jail capacity or to... -
Homicide, Bereavement, and the Criminal Justice System in Texas, 2000
This study assessed the influence of the criminal justice system on the bereavement process of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide. The primary question motivating... -
Neighborhood Revitalization and Disorder in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1993-2000
This project examined physical incivilities (disorder), social strengths and vulnerabilities, and police reports in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City. Physical and... -
Spatial Analysis of Crime in Appalachia [United States], 1977-1996
This research project was designed to demonstrate the contributions that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis procedures can make to the study of crime... -
National Evaluation of Operation Drug Test, 1998-1999
This study is an evaluation of Operation Drug TEST (ODT), a pretrial intervention program that was implemented in fiscal year 1997 in 25 of the 94 federal judicial districts in... -
Training School Resource Officers to Improve School Climate and Student Safety Outcomes, Arizona, 2015-2017
This study is an experimental investigation of the effectiveness of integrating School Resource Officers (SROs) into multi-disciplinary teams in reducing risk behaviors in... -
State Firearm Law Database: State Firearm Laws, 1991-2019
The State Firearm Database catalogs the presence or absence of 134 firearm safety laws in 14 categories covering the 26-year period from 1991 to 2019. The classification system... -
Using Public Health Databases to Analyze Legal Intervention Shootings, United States, 2006-2017
This project used national databases to describe the incidence and distribution of fatal and nonfatal police shootings and to develop an empirically based typology of legal... -
Evaluation of the P2P Challenging Extremism Initiative, Massachusetts and Utah, 2016-2019
This project convened experts and practitioners in the areas of program evaluation, radicalization to violent extremism, and social media analytics in order to generate and... -
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Campus Shield Evaluation, Miami, Florida, United States, 2014-2019
In 2015, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) received a three-year Comprehensive School Safety Initiative grant from the National Institute of Justice to implement, pilot... -
Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
A troubling aspect of justice system response to intimate partner violence is custody courts' failure to protect children when mothers allege the father is abusive. Family...