Datasets
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Effects of "United States vs. Leon" on Police Search Warrant Practices, 1984-1985
This data collection examines the impact of the Supreme Court decision in "UNITED STATES VS. LEON" on police search warrant applications in seven jurisdictions. For this... -
Violence Against Police: Baltimore County, Maryland, 1984-1986
This data collection examines individual and situational characteristics of nonfatal assaults on police officers in the Baltimore County Police Department. In the assault data,... -
Illegal Immigration and Crime in San Diego and El Paso Counties, 1985-1986
This study was conducted to examine whether a rising crime rate in El Paso, Texas and San Diego, California in 1986 could be attributed to, among other factors, the influx of... -
Helping Crime Victims: Levels of Trauma and Effectiveness of Services in Arizona, 1983-1984
This data collection was designed to gauge the impact of a victim assistance program on the behavior and attitudes of victims and to evaluate the program as assessed by police... -
Repeat Offender Laws in the United States: Forms, Uses, and Perceived Value, 1983
This survey of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges in jurisdictions with sentence enhancement statutes for repeat offenders collected information about the... -
Concerns of Police Survivors, 1986: [United States]
This data collection was designed to assess the impact of line-of-duty deaths of law enforcement officers on their family members in terms of the psychological, emotional, and... -
Downtown Safety, Security, and Development in New York City, 1984
This data collection was designed to address problems of crime as a barrier to the economic health of three outlying commercial centers of New York City: Brooklyn, Fordham Road... -
Disturbed Violent Offenders in New York, 1985
This data collection was designed to investigate the relationship between mental illness and violent involvement over an offender's criminal career and to develop a typology of... -
Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984
This data collection was designed to assess the effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law on the rate of violent crime committed by juveniles. The data were collected to... -
Screening of Youth at Risk for Delinquency in Oregon, 1980-1985
This is a longitudinal study of three birth cohorts of youngsters who were considered at risk because of anti-social behavior or because of officially recorded delinquency at... -
Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assault in Boston, Massachusetts, 1992-1997
This study sought to inform various issues related to the extent of victims' adverse psychological and behavioral reactions to aggravated assault differentiated by the... -
Informal Social Control of Crime in High Drug Use Neighborhoods in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, 2000
This neighborhood-level study sought to explore the effect of cultural disorganization, in terms of both weakened conventional culture and value heterogeneity, on informal... -
National Review of Stalking Laws and Implementation Practices in the United States, 1998-2001
This study was designed to clarify the status of stalking laws and their implementation needs. To accomplish this, the principal investigator conducted a survey of police and... -
Economic Distress, Community Context, and Intimate Violence in the United States, 1988 and 1994
Because of their restricted access to financial resources, couples undergoing economic distress are more likely to live in disadvantaged neighborhoods than are financially well-... -
Sentencing Practices and Time Served in the District of Columbia Prior to Truth in Sentencing, 1993-1998
This study collected data on felony sentencing practices in the District of Columbia during the period 1993 to 1998. Data are provided on (1) the characteristics of felons... -
Evaluation of Law Enforcement Training for Domestic Violence Cases in a Southwestern City in Texas, 1997-1999
This study was an outcome evaluation of the effects of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project Training Model for Law Enforcement Response on police officer attitudes... -
Examination of Homicides in Houston, Texas, 1985-1994
As a contribution to nationwide efforts to more thoroughly understand urban violence, this study was conducted to assess the impact of cultural dynamics on homicide rates in... -
Effectiveness of a Joint Police and Social Services Response to Elder Abuse in Manhattan [New York City], New York, 1996-1997
This project consisted of an evaluation of an elder abuse program run by the New York Police Department and Victim Services Research. The focus of the study was domestic elder... -
Survey of Prosecutors' Views on Children and Domestic Violence in the United States, 1999
This survey of prosecutors was undertaken to describe current practice and identify "promising practices" with respect to cases involving domestic violence and child victims or... -
Process Evaluation of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program at the Illinois Youth Center, St. Charles, 1999-2000
As part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Congress provided funding for the development of substance abuse treatment programs in state and local...