Datasets
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Drugs and Crime in Public Housing, 1986-1989: Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Washington, DC
This study investigates rates of serious crime for selected public housing developments in Washington, DC, Phoenix, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, for the years 1986 to... -
Evaluation of the Impact of Innovative Policing Programs on Social Disorder in Seven Cities in the United States, 1983-1990
This study was designed to permit a "meta-evaluation" of the impact of alternative policing programs on social disorder. Examples of social disorder include bands of teenagers... -
Clients of Street Prostitutes in Portland, Oregon, San Francisco and Santa Clara, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, 1996-1999
These data were collected to examine the background characteristics, attitudes, and reported behaviors of arrested clients of prostitutes, with particular attention to the issue... -
Evaluation of a Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence in Alexandria, Virginia, 1990-1998
This study was undertaken to evaluate Alexandria, Virginia's Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP), which is a coordinated community response to domestic violence.... -
Crime Control Effects of Sentencing in Essex County, New Jersey, 1976-1997
This study was undertaken to examine the ways in which different felony sanctions impact the future behavior of felony offenders. The study sought to determine whether the... -
Evaluation of the Washington, DC, Superior Court Drug Intervention Program, 1994-1998
This study was undertaken to measure the impact of the standard, treatment, and sanction dockets, which comprise the Superior Court Drug Intervention Program (SCDIP), on drug-... -
National Survey of Adolescents in the United States, 1995
The goal of this study was to test specific hypotheses illustrating the relationships among serious victimization experiences, the mental health effects of victimization,... -
Youth Under 18 Years Old in Adult Prisons in the United States, 1997
This survey of departments of corrections in the United States was undertaken to provide correctional staff with design, implementation, and management strategies to meet the... -
Evaluating the Virginia Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program, 1991-1995
In 1990, the Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation that established the Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program, a program providing child advocates in juvenile... -
Prosecution and Defense Strategies in Domestic Violence Felonies in Iowa, 1989-1995
This study consisted of an in-depth analysis of the trial strategies used by the prosecution and the defense in domestic violence-related felony cases. The research objectives... -
Evaluating Recidivism Among Drug Offenders in Florida's Residential and Non-Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, 1991-1997
This study was undertaken to investigate the relationship, if any, between drug treatment and success or failure of drug-involved offenders on probation/community supervision.... -
Evaluation of Community Policing Initiatives in Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1996-1997
This data collection was designed to evaluate the implementation of community policing initiatives for three police departments in Jefferson County, West Virginia: the Ranson... -
Street-Level View of Community Policing in the United States, 1995
This study sought to examine community policing from a street-level officer's point of view. Active community police officers and sheriff's deputies from law enforcement... -
Prevalence of Five Gang Structures in 201 Cities in the United States, 1992 and 1995
The goal of this study was to provide useful data on how street gang crime patterns (by amount and type of offense) relate to common patterns of street gang structure, thus... -
Children's Out-of-Court Statements: Effects of Hearsay on Jurors' Decisions in Sacramento County, California, and Maricopa County, Arizona, 1994-1997
The goal of this project was to investigate the effects of children's out-of-court hearsay statements on jurors' perceptions of witness credibility and defendant guilt. To... -
Effectiveness of Alternative Victim Assistance Service Delivery Models in the San Diego Region, 1993-1994
This study had a variety of aims: (1) to assess the needs of violent crime victims, (2) to document the services that were available to violent crime victims in the San Diego... -
National Study of Innovative and Promising Programs for Women Offenders, 1994-1995
The purpose of this study was to conduct a national-scale evaluation of correctional facilities housing female offenders in order to assess the effectiveness of current... -
A Multi-Site Assessment of Police Consolidation: California, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, 2014-2015
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... -
Policing by Place: A Proposed Multi-level Analysis of the Effectiveness of Risk Terrain Modeling for Allocating Police Resources, 2014-2015 [New York City]
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... -
Long-term Impact of a Positive Youth Development Program on Dating Violence Outcomes During the Transition to Adulthood
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...