Datasets
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Survey of American Prisons and Jails, 1979
This data collection contains information gathered in a two-part survey that was designed to assess institutional conditions in state and federal prisons and in halfway houses.... -
Illegal Corporate Behavior, 1975-1976
This study represents the first large-scale comprehensive investigation of corporate violations of law. It examines the extent and nature of these illegal activities, the... -
Assessing Local Legal Culture: Practitioner Norms in Four Criminal Courts, 1979
This study attempts to operationalize the concept of local legal culture by examining differences in the processing of twelve hypothetical criminal cases in four criminal... -
Survey of California Prison Inmates, 1976
This survey of inmates in five California prisons was conducted by the RAND Corporation with a grant from the National Institute of Justice. Researchers distributed an anonymous... -
Plea Bargaining in the United States, 1978
This study was conducted in 1978 at the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Georgetown University Law Center. The study consists of three files. The first contains... -
Police Response Time Analysis, 1975
This is a study of the relationship between the amount of time taken by police to respond to calls for service and the outcomes of criminal and noncriminal incidents in Kansas... -
Alaska Plea Bargaining Study, 1974-1976
This study examines the characteristics of criminal offenders as they affect the primary outcomes of their court cases, particularly plea bargaining decisions. The study was... -
Evaluation of Pre-Trial Settlement Conference: Dade County, Florida, Criminal Court, 1979
This study reports on the implementation in Dade County, Florida, of a proposal to involve, on a voluntary basis, victims, defendants, and police in a judicial plea negotiation... -
Residential Neighborhood Crime Control Project: Hartford, Connecticut, 1973, 1975-1977, 1979
This data collection contains responses to victimization surveys that were administered as part of both the planning and evaluation stages of the Hartford Project, a crime... -
New York Drug Law Evaluation Project, 1973
This data collection contains the results of a study created in response to New York State's 1973 revision of its criminal laws relating to drug use. The Association of the Bar... -
Multisite Evaluation of Shock Incarceration: [Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas], 1987-1992
This study analyzes shock incarceration (boot camp) programs in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. In each state, offenders who... -
National Study of Private Ownership of Firearms in the United States, 1994
This data collection consists of a survey of private ownership of firearms by adults in the United States. Respondents who both did and did not own firearms were included. The... -
Impact of Rape Reform Legislation in Six Major Urban Jurisdictions in the United States, 1970-1985
Despite the fact that most states enacted rape reform legislation by the mid-1980s, empirical research on the effect of these laws was conducted in only four states and for a... -
Evaluation of Boot Camps for Juvenile Offenders in Cleveland, Denver, and Mobile, 1992-1993
Boot camps, a popular alternative to standard correctional facilities, are characterized by a strong emphasis on military structure, drill, and discipline and by an abbreviated... -
Role of Police Psychology in Controlling Excessive Force in 50 Large Cities in the United States, 1992
As part of the development of an information base for subsequent policy initiatives, the National Institute of Justice sponsored a nationwide survey of police psychologists to... -
Measuring Perceptions of Appropriate Prison Sentences in the United States, 2000
This study examined the public's preferences regarding sentencing and parole of criminal offenders. It also investigated the public's willingness to pay for particular crime... -
Determinants of Case Growth in Federal District Courts in the United States, 1904-2002
This study analyzed the determinants of the explosion in the caseload of the United States federal district courts that commenced in 1960. First, the study sought to provide... -
Correlates and Consequences of Juvenile Exposure to Violence in the United States, 1995
This study examined the effect of exposure to violence on juveniles. It was specifically concerned with juveniles' perceptions of violence in schools and communities and how... -
Supporting Police Integrity in the Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Police Department, 1991-1998 and 2000
This study investigated police integrity in the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD). Its primary goal was to identify risk factors for negative police behaviors and outcomes... -
Prosecuting Adolescents in Juvenile and Criminal Jurisdictions in Selected Counties in New Jersey and New York, 1992-1993
A different model of justice is assumed to be reflected in the prosecution of adolescents in juvenile jurisdictions compared to criminal jurisdictions, with a juvenile justice...