Datasets
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Use of Adjuncts to Supplement Judicial Resources in Six Jurisdictions, 1983-1986: [United States]
This multi-site data collection evaluates the impact of judicial adjunct attorneys and referees on the court system at the county and state levels in six jurisdictions: (1) Pima... -
Robberies in Chicago, 1982-1983
This study investigates the factors and conditions in robbery events that cause victim injury or death. The investigators compare three robbery events: those that resulted in... -
Fines as a Criminal Sanction: Practices and Attitudes of Trial Court Judges in the United States, 1985
These data were collected to examine the practices and views of state trial court judges with respect to their use of fines as a criminal sanction. Respondents were asked about... -
Disorder and Community Decline in Forty Neighborhoods of the United States, 1977-1983
This data collection was designed to evaluate the effects of disorderly neighborhood conditions on community decline and residents' reactions toward crime. Data from five... -
Effectiveness of Client Specific Planning as an Alternative Sentence, 1981-1982: Washington, DC, and Fairfax, Montgomery, and Prince George Counties
This data collection was designed to evaluate the Client Specific Planning (CSP) program of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA). The CSP program offers... -
Nature and Patterns of Homicide in Eight American Cities, 1978
This dataset contains detailed information on homicides in eight United States cities: Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Dallas, Oakland, and "Ashton" (a... -
Guardian Angels: Citizen Response to Crime in Selected Cities of the United States, 1984
This study was designed to assess the effects of the activities of the Guardian Angels on citizens' fear of crime, incidence of crime, and police officers' perceptions of the... -
Evaluation of the Focused Offender Disposition Program in Birmingham, Phoenix, and Chicago, 1988-1992
The Drug Testing Technology/Focused Offender Disposition (FOD) program was designed to examine two issues regarding drug users in the criminal justice system: (1) the utility of... -
Reexamining the Minneapolis Repeat Complaint Address Policing (RECAP) Experiment, 1986-1987
This study reexamines REPEAT COMPLAINT ADDRESS POLICING: TWO FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN MINNEAPOLIS, 1985-1987 (ICPSR 9788). The original Repeat Complaint Address Policing (RECAP)... -
Exploring the House Burglar's Perspective: Observing and Interviewing Offenders in St. Louis, 1989-1990
These data investigate the behaviors and attitudes of active residential burglars, not presently incarcerated, operating in St. Louis, Missouri. Through personal interviews,... -
National Assessment of Gangs in Correctional Facilities, 1992
This study sought to identify and examine current policies and strategies for controlling prison gangs and to determine the ways in which correctional facilities were dealing... -
Prejudice and Violence in the American Workplace, 1988-1991: Survey of an Eastern Corporation
This study was conducted to examine the nature and extent of prejudice-based mistreatment of employees in the workplace. The researchers investigated the effects of mistreatment... -
Improving the Investigation of Homicide and the Apprehension Rate of Murderers in Washington State, 1981-1986
This data collection contains information on solved murders occurring in Washington State between 1981 and 1986. The collection is a subset of data from the Homicide... -
Charlotte [North Carolina] Spouse Assault Replication Project, 1987-1989
This study is a replication and extension of an experiment conducted in Minneapolis (MINNEAPOLIS INTERVENTION PROJECT, 1986-1987 [ICPSR 9808]) to test the efficacy of three... -
Longitudinal Study of Violent Criminal Behavior in the United States, 1970-1984
The primary objective of this project was to explore the familial, physical, psychological, social, and cultural antecedents and correlates of violent criminal offending. This... -
Spouse Abuse Replication Project in Metro-Dade County, Florida, 1987-1989
The Metro-Dade project replicated an earlier study of domestic violence, the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (SPECIFIC DETERRENT EFFECTS OF ARREST FOR DOMESTIC ASSAULT:... -
Mentally Disordered Offenders in Pursuit of Celebrities and Politicians
These data were collected to develop a means of identifying those individuals most likely to be dangerous to others because of their pursuit of public figures. Another objective... -
New Orleans Offender Study, 1973-1986
These data focus on persons arrested for burglary or armed robbery in New Orleans during 1973-1986. Local, state, and federal arrest records were combined with local and state... -
Security by Design: Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods in the United States, 1994-1996
This study was designed to collect comprehensive data on the types of "crime prevention through environmental design" (CPTED) methods used by cities of 30,000 population and... -
Process and Outcome Evaluation of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program in Kyle, Texas, 1993-1995
This study was undertaken to evaluate the treatment process and outcomes associated with a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) In-Prison Therapeutic Community (ITC)...