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Violence Against Women: Developmental Antecedents Among Black, Caucasian, and Hispanic Women in the United States, 1987-1988 and 1992-1994
  • Description: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, the project focused on the relationship between violence against women and previously established risk factors for intimate partner violence including stressors related to work, economic status, and role transitions (e.g., pregnancy), as well as family power dynamics, status discrepancies, and alcohol use. The following research questions were addressed: (1) To what extent do Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic individuals engage in physical violence with their partners? (2) How are socioeconomic stressors associated with violent relationships among Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic couples? (3) To what extent are changes in patterns of physical violence against women associated with different stages of a relationship (e.g., cohabitation, early marriage, pregnancy, marriage)? (4) To what extent do culturally linked attitudes about family structure (family power dynamics) predict violence among Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic couples? (5) To what extent do family strengths and support systems contribute to the cessation of violence among Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic couples? (6) What is the role of alcohol use in violent relationships among Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic couples? The data used for this project came from the first and second waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) conducted by the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison [NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS: WAVE I, 1987-1988, AND WAVE II, 1992-1994 (ICPSR 6906)]. The NSFH was designed to cover a broad range of family structures, processes, and relationships with a large enough sample to permit subgroup analysis. For the purposes of this study, the analytical sample focused on only those couples who were cohabiting or married at the time of the first wave of the study and still with the same person at the time of the second wave (N=3,584). Since the study design included oversamples of previously understudied groups (i.e., Blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans), racial and ethnic comparisons were possible. In both waves of the NSFH several identical questions were asked regarding marital conflicts. Both married and cohabiting respondents were asked how often they used various tactics including heated arguments and hitting or throwing things at each other to resolve their conflicts. In addition, respondents were asked if any of their arguments became physical, how many of their fights resulted in either the respondent or their partner hitting, shoving, or throwing things, and if any injuries resulted as a consequence of these fights. This data collection consists of the SPSS syntax used to recode variables from the original NSFH dataset. In addition, new variables, including both composite variables (e.g., self-esteem, hostility, depression) and husband and wife versions of the variables (using information from both respondent and partner), were constructed. New variables were grouped into the following categories: demographic, personality, alcohol and drug use, relationship stages, gender role attitudes, division of labor, fairness in household chores, social support, and isolation. Psychological well-being scales were created to measure autonomy, positive relations with others, purpose in life, self-acceptance, environmental mastery, and personal growth. Additional scales were created to measure relationship conflict, sex role gender attitudes, personal mastery, alcohol use, and hostility. The Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) were also utilized.
  • Last Update:2002-05-14T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:3651
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:Hispanic or Latino Americans, White Americans, battered women, crime prediction, cultural attitudes, cultural influences, domestic violence, families, family relationships, family structure, family violence, male offenders, relationships, risk assessment
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:2001-11-29T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03293.v1, Violence Against Women: Developmental Antecedents Among Black, Caucasian, and Hispanic Women in the United States, 1987-1988 and 1992-1994
Violence Against Women and the Role of Welfare Reform in Stanislaus and Kern Counties, California, 1999-2002
  • Description:This study investigated the relationship between domestic violence and welfare reform. Two specific goals were (1) to determine the impact of domestic violence on welfare tenure and employment over a three-year period, and (2) to examine the well-being of children of female welfare recipients who experienced domestic violence. In addition, the study examined issues related to mental health problems and alcohol and drug problems, both of which are associated with domestic violence. This study was based on three rounds of interviews with a random sample of welfare recipients in Kern and Stanislaus Counties, California, between April 1999 and December 2002. Although the interview instrument was slightly altered for each round, the questions in all three rounds focused on employment history, health, mental health, domestic violence victimization, children's well-being, and alcohol and drug use.
  • Last Update:2006-03-30T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:3043
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:alcohol abuse, child welfare, domestic violence, drug abuse, mental health, welfare reform
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:2005-02-25T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03797.v1, Violence Against Women and the Role of Welfare Reform in Stanislaus and Kern Counties, California, 1999-2002
Violence and Threats of Violence Against Women and Men in the United States, 1994-1996
  • Description:To further the understanding of violence against women, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), jointly sponsored the National Violence Against Women (NVAW) Survey. To provide a context in which to place women's experiences, the NVAW Survey sampled both women and men. Completed interviews were obtained from 8,000 women and 8,005 men who were 18 years of age or older residing in households throughout the United States. The female version of the survey was fielded from November 1995 to May 1996. The male version of the survey was fielded during February to May 1996. Spanish versions of both the male and female surveys were fielded from April to May 1996. Respondents to the NVAW Survey were queried about (1) their general fear of violence and the ways in which they managed their fears, (2) emotional abuse they had experienced by marital and cohabitating partners, (3) physical assault they had experienced as children by adult caretakers, (4) physical assault they had experienced as adults by any type of perpetrator, (5) forcible rape or stalking they had experienced by any type of perpetrator, and (6) incidents of threatened violence they had experienced by any type of perpetrator. Respondents disclosing victimization were asked detailed questions about the characteristics and consequences of victimization as they experienced it, including injuries sustained and use of medical services. Incidents were recorded that had occurred at any time during the respondent's lifetime and also those that occurred within the 12 months prior to the interview. Data were gathered on both male-to-female and female-to-male intimate partner victimization as well as abuse by same-sex partners. Due to the sensitive nature of the survey, female respondents were interviewed by female interviewers. In order to test for possible bias caused by the gender of the interviewers when speaking to men, a split sample was used so that half of the male respondents had female interviewers and the other half had male interviewers. The questionnaires contained 14 sections, each covering a different topic, as follows. Section A: Respondents' fears of different types of violence, and behaviors they had adopted to accommodate those fears. Section B: Respondent demographics and household characteristics. Section C: The number of current and past marital and opposite-sex and same-sex cohabitating relationships of the respondent. Section D: Characteristics of the respondent's current relationship and the demographics and other characteristics of their spouse and/or partner. Section E: Power, control, and emotional abuse by each spouse or partner. Sections F through I: Screening for incidents of rape, physical assault, stalking, and threat victimization, respectively. Sections J through M: Detailed information on each incident of rape, physical assault, stalking, and threat victimization, respectively, reported by the respondent for each type of perpetrator identified in the victimization screening section. Section N: Violence in the respondent's current relationship, including steps taken because of violence in the relationship and whether the violent behavior had stopped. The section concluded with items to assess if the respondent had symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. Other variables in the data include interviewer gender, respondent gender, number of adult women and adult men in the household, number of different telephones in the household, and region code.
  • Last Update:2006-03-30T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:3421
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:assault, battered women, child abuse, domestic violence, emotional abuse, fear of crime, rape, stalking, threats, victimization
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:1999-11-10T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02566.v1, Violence and Threats of Violence Against Women and Men in the United States, 1994-1996
Violence Exposure, Continuous Trauma, and Repeat Offending in Female and Male Serious Adolescent Offenders, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and Maricopa County, Arizona, 2000-2010
  • Description:A major goal of juvenile justice reform is to reduce reoffending and recidivism among juvenile offenders. Advocates of trauma informed practices assert that disproportionately high rates of violence exposure and trauma symptoms exacerbate the delinquent and violent behavior of juvenile offenders, but there is little evidence of the role of trauma in reoffending, particularly for the group of juvenile offenders that are at the highest risk for reoffending: serious offenders. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to conduct secondary data analysis on data from the Pathways to Desistance Study (Mulvey et al., 2004) to enhance understanding of how continuous trauma exposure and related symptoms impact reoffending in serious juvenile offenders. This study utilized secondary data analysis on six annual waves of data from the Pathways to Desistance study (Mulvey et al., 2004), a large multi-site, longitudinal study of adolescents who had committed a serious criminal offense. The study followed juvenile offenders into adulthood. The current study analyzed youth self-report of demographic variables, community violence exposure, trauma-related symptoms, and violent offending, as well as official records of youth offending. Regression analysis, latent transition analysis, and survival analysis were used to examine the research questions and hypotheses. Results showed that the majority of participants experienced continuous violence exposure as witnesses to community violence, with lower rates for victimization. Further, violence exposure and trauma-related symptoms (anxiety and hostility) co-occurred over time. Also, continuous violence exposure during adolescence predicted self-reported violent reoffending in early adulthood, even after controlling for demographic factors. Victimization significantly increased the risk for re-arrest. Further, this risk of re-offending was higher for male offenders than for female offenders. Finally, callous-unemotional traits and hostility mediated the relationship between continuous violence exposure and later violent offending. In this study, data from the Pathways to Desistance study were analyzed using SPSS and Mplus software packages, and the syntax files used to analyze the data have been included. The Pathways to Desistance study datasets are archived at the University of Michigan Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and the PI obtained the Pathways data from ICPSR.
  • Last Update:2021-03-25T17:00:11
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:3984
  • Publisher:Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:abuse, adolescents, anxiety, felony offenses, hostility, juvenile offenders, juvenile recidivists, mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder, victimization, violence
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:000
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:2021-03-25T17:00:11
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37623.v1, Violence Exposure, Continuous Trauma, and Repeat Offending in Female and Male Serious Adolescent Offenders, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and Maricopa County, Arizona, 2000-2010
Violence Prevention for Middle School Boys: A Dyadic Web-Based Intervention, Providence, Rhode Island, 2015-2018
  • Description: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 checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed. This study examined whether a web-based program that talks about communication and feelings with families reduces dating violence among middle-school boys. The final intervention (STRONG), used by parents and adolescents together, was based on the empirical literature linking emotion regulation deficits to violent behavior as well as studies showing that parental involvement is crucial to offset dating violence risk.
  • Last Update:2019-08-27T09:39:57
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:2960
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:adolescents, crime, dating (social), interpersonal relations, intimate partner violence, intimate partners, males, sexual behavior, violence
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:2019-08-27T09:32:48
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37248.v1, Violence Prevention for Middle School Boys: A Dyadic Web-Based Intervention, Providence, Rhode Island, 2015-2018
Violent Crime Apprehension Program Web
  • Description:The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) serves as the national information center that collects, collates and analyzes crimes of violence. The system contains solved and unsolved cases involving homicide or attempted homicide, sexual assaults,
  • Last Update:2017-02-27T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:1130
  • Publisher:Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Criminal Justice Information Services Division Federal Bureau of Investigation (USDOJ), mailto:CRIMESTATSINFO@fbi.gov
  • Tags:violent crime, cases, homicide, sexual assault, missing person, unidentified human remains
  • Bureau Code:011:10
  • Program Code:011:044
  • Release Date:2017-02-27T00:00:00
  • Distribution:
Violent Incidents Among Selected Public School Students in Two Large Cities of the South and the Southern Midwest, 1995: [United States]
  • Description:This study of violent incidents among middle- and high-school students focused not only on the types and frequency of these incidents, but also on their dynamics -- the locations, the opening moves, the relationship between the disputants, the goals and justifications of the aggressor, the role of third parties, and other factors. For this study, violence was defined as an act carried out with the intention, or perceived intention, of physically injuring another person, and the "opening move" was defined as the action of a respondent, antagonist, or third party that was viewed as beginning the violent incident. Data were obtained from interviews with 70 boys and 40 girls who attended public schools with populations that had high rates of violence. About half of the students came from a middle school in an economically disadvantaged African-American section of a large southern city. The neighborhood the school served, which included a public housing project, had some of the country's highest rates of reported violent crime. The other half of the sample were volunteers from an alternative high school attended by students who had committed serious violations of school rules, largely involving illegal drugs, possession of handguns, or fighting. Many students in this high school, which is located in a large city in the southern part of the Midwest, came from high-crime areas, including public housing communities. The interviews were open-ended, with the students encouraged to speak at length about any violent incidents in school, at home, or in the neighborhood in which they had been involved. The 110 interviews yielded 250 incidents and are presented as text files, Parts 3 and 4. The interview transcriptions were then reduced to a quantitative database with the incident as the unit of analysis (Part 1). Incidents were diagrammed, and events in each sequence were coded and grouped to show the typical patterns and sub-patterns in the interactions. Explanations the students offered for the violent-incident behavior were grouped into two categories: (1) "justifications," in which the young people accepted responsibility for their violent actions but denied that the actions were wrong, and (2) "excuses," in which the young people admitted the act was wrong but denied responsibility. Every case in the incident database had at least one physical indicator of force or violence. The respondent-level file (Part 2) was created from the incident-level file using the AGGREGATE procedure in SPSS. Variables in Part 1 include the sex, grade, and age of the respondent, the sex and estimated age of the antagonist, the relationship between respondent and antagonist, the nature and location of the opening move, the respondent's response to the opening move, persons present during the incident, the respondent's emotions during the incident, the person who ended the fight, punishments imposed due to the incident, whether the respondent was arrested, and the duration of the incident. Additional items cover the number of times during the incident that something was thrown, the respondent was pushed, slapped, or spanked, was kicked, bit, or hit with a fist or with something else, was beaten up, cut, or bruised, was threatened with a knife or gun, or a knife or gun was used on the respondent. Variables in Part 2 include the respondent's age, gender, race, and grade at the time of the interview, the number of incidents per respondent, if the respondent was an armed robber or a victim of an armed robbery, and whether the respondent had something thrown at him/her, was pushed, slapped, or spanked, was kicked, bit, or hit with a fist or with something else, was beaten up, was threatened with a knife or gun, or had a knife or gun used on him/her.
  • Last Update:2012-08-22T08:55:57
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:2782
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:crime in schools, juvenile offenders, middle schools, neighborhoods, public housing, school violence, schools, urban crime
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:1998-12-10T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02027.v1, Violent Incidents Among Selected Public School Students in Two Large Cities of the South and the Southern Midwest, 1995: [United States]
Violent Offending by Drug Users: Longitudinal Arrest Histories of Adults Arrested in Washington, DC, 1985-1986
  • Description:This data collection effort examined the influence of drug use on three key aspects of offenders' criminal careers in violence: participation, frequency of offending, and termination rate. A random sample of arrestees was taken from those arrested in Washington, DC, during the period July 1, 1985, to June 6, 1986. The sample was stratified to overrepresent groups other than Black males. Drug use was determined by urinalysis results at the time of arrest, as contrasted with previous studies that relied on self-reports of drug use. The research addresses the following questions: (1) Does drug use have an influence on participation in violent criminal activity? (2) Does drug use influence the frequency of violent offending? (3) Is there a difference in the types and rates of violent offending between drug-using offenders who use stimulants and those who use depressants? Variables regarding arrests include date of arrest, drug test result, charges filed, disposition date, disposition type, and sentence length imposed. Demographic variables include race, sex, birthdate, and place of birth.
  • Last Update:1996-01-22T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:3495
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:career criminals, drug offenders, drug testing, drug use, recidivism, violence, violent crime
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:1996-01-22T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06254.v1, Violent Offending by Drug Users: Longitudinal Arrest Histories of Adults Arrested in Washington, DC, 1985-1986
Waiver of Attorney in Juvenile Court, Massachusetts and Virginia, 2014-2018
  • Description:The goal of this study is to examine age-based differences in knowledge and beliefs regarding the role of counsel, presumptions about counsel, and maturity of judgement when making decisions about whether to waive the right to counsel or the right to trial in a plea context. The study extends existing limited work on age-based differences in knowledge and decision making in several ways that improve ecological validity. The study examines knowledge, beliefs, and decisions among parent-youth pairs from the same family. This sampling strategy more closely approximates the real-life circumstances of waiver of counsel in which knowledge, beliefs, and decisions are nested and tested within family units. The dyadic analysis can offer insight into the challenges and opportunities that face youthful defendants at these critical junctures in case processing. It provides information about whether parents and youth understand these rights and whether assumptions that parents compensate for youths' lack of knowledge is reasonable.
  • Last Update:2022-07-14T12:40:58
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:4222
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:adolescents, attorneys, juvenile justice, legal proceedings
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:2022-07-14T12:40:58
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37194.v1, Waiver of Attorney in Juvenile Court, Massachusetts and Virginia, 2014-2018
Weekly notice of activity under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
  • Description:This weekly report provides information about voting changes, submissions, notices, responses to/from the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
  • Last Update:2017-04-19T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:347
  • Publisher:Civil Rights Division, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Data Management US Department of Justice (USDOJ), mailto:DataManagement@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:civil rights division, department of justice, doj, CRT, Section 5 public notices, voting rights act, voting, voting changes
  • Bureau Code:011:05
  • Program Code:011:019
  • Spatial:United States
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:2017-04-19T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://www.justice.gov/crt/notices-section-5-activity-under-voting-rights-act-1965-amended, https://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmi/, text/html, Weekly notice of activity under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
White-Collar and Corporate Frauds: Understanding and Measuring Public Policy Preferences, United States, 2015
  • Description: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 checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed. This study contains data from an on-line national survey of 2,050 respondents aged 18+. The data were collected to provide new policy-relevant evidence on the public's attitude towards white-collar and corporate frauds by asking questions about the public's willingness to pay for reducing white-collar crimes when provided information about the estimate of financial losses, context and seriousness. Further, the study quantifies public perceptions of seriousness link to specific policy preferences. This study includes one STATA data file: Formatted_WTP_Dataset_11-10-16.dta (138 variables, 2050 cases).
  • Last Update:2018-05-16T14:02:04
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:3539
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:crime control policies, crime impact, victim compensation, white collar crime
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:2018-05-16T13:58:06
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36520.v1, White-Collar and Corporate Frauds: Understanding and Measuring Public Policy Preferences, United States, 2015
White-Collar Criminal Careers, 1976-1978: Federal Judicial Districts
  • Description:This study examined the criminal careers of 1,331 offenders convicted of white-collar crimes in the United States District Courts to assess the relative effectiveness of court-imposed prison sanctions in preventing or modifying future criminal behavior. The white-collar crime event that was the central focus of this study, the "criterion" offense, provided the standard point of entry for sample members. Researchers for this study supplemented the data collected by Wheeler et al. in their 1988 study (NATURE AND SANCTIONING OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME, 1976-1978: FEDERAL JUDICIAL DISTRICTS [ICPSR 8989]) with criminal history data subsequent to the criterion offense through to 1990. As in the 1988 study, white-collar crime was considered to include economic offenses committed through the use of some combination of fraud, deception, or collusion. Eight federal offenses were examined: antitrust, securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, false claims and statements, credit fraud, bank embezzlement, income tax fraud, and bribery. Arrests were chosen as the major measure of criminal conduct. The data contain information coded from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal history records ("rap sheets") for a set of offenders convicted of white-collar crimes in federal courts in fiscal years 1976 to 1978. The seven federal judicial districts from which the sample was drawn were central California, northern Georgia, northern Illinois, Maryland, southern New York, northern Texas, and western Washington. To correct for a bias that can be introduced when desistance from criminality is confused with the death of the offender, the researchers examined the National Death Index (NDI) data to identify offenders who had died between the date of sentencing for the criterion offense and when data collection began for this study in 1990. This data collection contains three types of records. The first record type (Part 1, Summary Data) contains summary and descriptive information about the offender's rap sheet as a whole. Variables include dates of first entry and last entry on the rap sheet, number of separate crimes on the rap sheet, whether the criterion crime was listed on the rap sheet, whether the rap sheet listed crimes prior to or subsequent to the criterion crime, and date of death of offender. The second and third record types are provided in one data file (Part 2, Event and Event Interim Data). The second record type contains information about each crime event on the rap sheet. Variables include custody status of offender at arrest, type of arresting agency, state of arrest, date of arrest, number of charges for each arrest, number of charges resulting in no formal charges filed, number of charges dismissed, number of charges for white-collar crimes, type of sanction, length of definite sentence, probation sentence, and suspended probation sentence, amount of fines, amount of court costs, and restitution ordered, first, second, and third offense charged, arrest and court disposition for each charge, and date of disposition. The third record type contains information about the interim period between events or between the final event and the end of the follow-up period. Variables include date of first, second, and third incarceration, date discharged or transferred from each incarceration, custody/supervision status at each incarceration, total number of prisons, jails, or other institutions resided in during the interval, final custody/supervision status and date discharged from incarceration for the interval, dates parole and probation started and expired, if parole or probation terms were changed or completed, amount of fines, court costs, and restitution paid, whether the conviction was overturned during the interval, and date the conviction was overturned. A single offender has as many of record types two and three as were needed to code the entire rap sheet.
  • Last Update:2006-03-30T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:2871
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:arrest records, career criminals, crime prevention, criminal histories, disposition (legal), imprisonment, offenders, prisons, sanctions, sentencing, white collar crime
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:2000-08-01T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06540.v1, White-Collar Criminal Careers, 1976-1978: Federal Judicial Districts
Wisconsin School Violence and Bullying Prevention Study, 2015-2017
  • Description: The Wisconsin School Violence and Bullying Prevention Study sought to understand the impact of comprehensive bullying prevention programs on outcomes related to violence, safety, and bullying rates. This study focused on 24 middle schools (grades 6 to 8) in Wisconsin. To examine the effectiveness of the school's current anti-bullying program, the Bullying Prevention Program Assessment tool (BPPAT) was completed at the end of the school year. The BPPAT focused on administrative policy and procedures geared towards students, faculty, parents, or administrators. This tool examined the following items: policy and procedures, program implementation, staff training, parental education and communication, student training, reporting systems, and continuous quality improvement (CQI). Students and faculty were given surveys to determine bullying rates and perceptions of school safety. The school safety survey was given to all students concerning their bullying victimization and perception of school safety. This survey contains the following demographic variables: age, sex, grade, and race. The verified bullying incident data contains incident reporting from faculty, which focused on the type of bullying and the demographics of the perpetrator and victim. After new bullying prevention programs were implemented, students were given the safety and bullying victimization survey which focused on perceptions of bullying and school safety. The number of bullying incidents, number of student victims and perpetrators, and the demographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators were retained in aggregate form for each school were submitted to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) for analysis.
  • Last Update:2021-05-26T12:16:03
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:4219
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:abuse, bullying, educational environment, educational policy, middle schools, program evaluation, school age children, school security, training, victimization
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:2021-05-26T12:08:17
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37228.v1, Wisconsin School Violence and Bullying Prevention Study, 2015-2017
Women Coping in Prison at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Virginia, 1999-2000
  • Description:This study contributed to the growing interest in mental illness and impairment among incarcerated individuals. It focused on the larger spectrum of psychopathology that characterized the general, nonhospitalized population at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Virginia. Part 1 consists of clinical data obtained through several questionnaires completed by a sample of 812 inmates between April 1999 and January 2000. Parts 2 through 4 consist of additional clinical data on subsamples of the Part 1 sample that were obtained between June 1999 and July 2000 through interviews and self-enumerated questionnaires. Part 5 contains data on inmate behavior and attitudes obtained through questionnaires completed by correctional officers.
  • Last Update:2006-03-30T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:restricted public
  • Identity:2856
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:criminality prediction, female inmates, inmate attitudes, inmate populations, mental disorders, mental health, offender profiles, prison adjustment, psychological evaluation, victimization, violence
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Rights:These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
  • Release Date:2003-12-11T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03354.v1, Women Coping in Prison at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Virginia, 1999-2000
Women Correctional Officers in California, 1979
  • Description:This study examined women correctional officers working in the 11 institutions for men operated by the California Department of Corrections in 1979. For Part 1, Census, researchers conducted a census of all 386 female correctional officers working in these institutions to collect demographic characteristics and baseline data. For Parts 2 (Staff) and 3 (Inmate), a survey was administered to staff and inmates asking their opinions about differences in performance between male and female correctional officers. Part 4, Profile, contains demographic and background data for the officers participating in the Part 2 survey. For Parts 5 (Female) and 6 (Male), researchers gathered job performance data for female correctional officers in 7 of the 11 institutions, as well as a matched sample of male correctional officers. Variables in Parts 1 and 4-6 include demographic information such as age, ethnicity, marital status, number of children, and educational and occupational history. Other variables measure attributes such as age, weight, and height, and record career information such as date and location of permanent assignment as a correctional officer, any breaks in service, and other criminal justice work experience. Additional variables in Parts 5 and 6 include job performance measures, such as ratings on skills, knowledge, work habits, learning ability, overall work habits, quality and quantity of work, and commendations. Parts 2 and 3 present information on staff and inmate evaluations of male and female correctional officers performing specific roles, such as control work officer, yard officer, or security squad officer. Additional variables include opinions on how well male and female officers handled emergency situations, maintained control under stress, and used firearms when necessary. Questions were also asked about whether inmates' or officers' safety was endangered with female officers, whether women should be hired as correctional officers, and whether female officers were gaining acceptance in correctional facilities.
  • Last Update:2006-03-30T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:3087
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:correctional facilities, criminal justice system, gender roles, women
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:1987-10-12T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08684.v2, Women Correctional Officers in California, 1979
Women in Prison, 1800-1935: Tennessee, New York, and Ohio
  • Description:This data collection focused on problems in the women's correctional system over a 135-year period. More specifically, it examined the origins and development of prisoner and sentencing characteristics in three states. Demographic data on female inmates cover age, race, parents' place of birth, prisoner's occupation, religion, and marital status. Other variables include correctional facilities, offenses, minimum and maximum sentences, prior commitments, method of release from prison, and presence of crime partners.
  • Last Update:2000-10-16T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:3745
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:New York, Ohio, Tennessee, United States, correctional facilities, criminal justice system, demographic characteristics, sentencing, women
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:1986-08-18T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08481.v2, Women in Prison, 1800-1935: Tennessee, New York, and Ohio
Work and Family Services for Law Enforcement Personnel in the United States, 1995
  • Description:This study was undertaken to provide current information on work and family issues from the police officer's perspective, and to explore the existence and prevalence of work and family training and intervention programs offered nationally by law enforcement agencies. Three different surveys were employed to collect data for this study. First, a pilot study was conducted in which a questionnaire, designed to elicit information on work and family issues in law enforcement, was distributed to 1,800 law enforcement officers representing 21 municipal, suburban, and rural police agencies in western New York State (Part 1). Demographic information in this Work and Family Issues in Law Enforcement (WFILE) questionnaire included the age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, highest level of education, and number of years in law enforcement of each respondent. Respondents also provided information on which agency they were from, their job title, and the number of children and step-children they had. The remaining items on the WFILE questionnaire fell into one of the following categories: (1) work and family orientation, (2) work and family issues, (3) job's influence on spouse/significant other, (4) support by spouse/significant other, (5) influence of parental role on the job, (6) job's influence on relationship with children, (7) job's influence on relationships and friendships, (8) knowledge of programs to assist with work and family issues, (9) willingness to use programs to assist with work and family issues, (10) department's ability to assist officers with work and family issues, and (11) relationship with officer's partner. Second, a Police Officer Questionnaire (POQ) was developed based on the results obtained from the pilot study. The POQ was sent to over 4,400 officers in police agencies in three geographical locations: the Northeast (New York City, New York, and surrounding areas), the Midwest (Minneapolis, Minnesota, and surrounding areas), and the Southwest (Dallas, Texas, and surrounding areas) (Part 2). Respondents were asked questions measuring their health, exercise, alcohol and tobacco use, overall job stress, and the number of health-related stress symptoms experienced within the last month. Other questions from the POQ addressed issues of concern to the Police Research and Education Project -- a sister organization of the National Association of Police Organizations -- and its membership. These questions dealt with collective bargaining, the Law Enforcement Officer's Bill of Rights, residency requirements, and high-speed pursuit policies and procedures. Demographic variables included gender, age, ethnicity, marital status, highest level of education, and number of years employed in law enforcement. Third, to identify the extent and nature of services that law enforcement agencies provided for officers and their family members, an Agency Questionnaire (AQ) was developed (Part 3). The AQ survey was developed based on information collected from previous research efforts, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Part W-Family Support, subsection 2303 [b]), and from information gained from the POQ. Data collected from the AQ consisted of whether the agency had a mission statement, provided any type of mental health service, and had a formalized psychological services unit. Respondents also provided information on the number of sworn officers in their agency and the gender of the officers. The remaining questions requested information on service providers, types of services provided, agencies' obstacles to use of services, agencies' enhancement of services, and the organizational impact of the services.
  • Last Update:2006-03-30T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:2923
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:demographic characteristics, family counseling, family relations, family work relationship, intervention, job satisfaction, job stress, law enforcement agencies, police officers, police training
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:2000-05-09T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02696.v1, Work and Family Services for Law Enforcement Personnel in the United States, 1995
Workload and Adjudication Statistics
Work Release in the State of Washington, 1990-1993
  • Description:Work release programs allow selected prisoners nearing the end of their terms to work in the community, returning to correctional facilities or community residential facilities in nonworking hours. This project was designed as both a randomized and quasi-experimental field study to assess the effectiveness of work release in the Seattle area. It evaluated the impact of work release sentencing on recidivism and on corrections costs by comparing a sample of inmates who participated in work release with a comparable sample of inmates who completed their sentences in prison. The study was designed to answer the following questions: (1) What are the background and offense characteristics of offenders assigned to work release in the Seattle area? (2) What types of services are received by offenders in work release? and (3) How does the community experience of work release participants compare to that of similar offenders discharged directly into the Seattle community without having gone through work release? For each offender, detailed information was collected on measures relating to work release participation and recidivism outcomes. Information was gathered from Department of Corrections institutional files, work release program records, computerized payment information for legal and financial obligations, and statewide criminal history records. For each offender, background and six- and twelve-month reviews were completed. Part 1, Background Data, supplies variables that cover inmate demographics, employment history, drug use, current offense, prior criminal history, and risk/needs items. Part 2, Drug Testing Data, lists the types of drugs tested for, types of drugs for which there were positive results, and sanctions for drug use. Part 3, Offender Status Data, provides information on inmates' supervision status and the types of programs they participated in. Part 4, Prison Data, includes the number of days spent at different institutions and prerelease centers, work assignment, and prison infractions. Part 5, Work Release Data, contains information on the number of days spent at different work release facilities and any time spent in jail or on escape status while in work release. Data in this file also cover contacts and services received during work release, including personal and phone contacts between the work release participant and community corrections officer at the job and other sites, monitoring checks (employment verification, criminal records checks), sessions in outpatient counseling (drug, alcohol, family, other), employment (number of attempted and completed job interviews, primary job classification, length of employment, wages, and reason left), drug testing (date and type of test, type of positives, sanction imposed), infractions during work release and their sanctions, and arrests and their sanctions. Part 6, Community Placement Data, provides variables on the number of days each month that the offender was on the street, in work release, in pretrial detention, or in other custody, while Part 7, Post-Release Data, focuses on the number of days each month that the offender was on the street, in pretrial detention, or in prison or jail after being released from the work release program. Variables in Part 8, Infractions Data, pertain to the number and types of infractions and associated sanctions. Part 9, Recidivism Data, provides information on each offense after discharge from the program, including the date of the offense, nature of arrest, disposition, and sentence.
  • Last Update:2006-03-29T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:2776
  • Publisher:National Institute of Justice, 22, OJP, Office of Justice Programs, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ), mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:correctional facilities, criminal histories, inmate programs, prerelease programs, prison inmates, program evaluation, recidivism, work release
  • Bureau Code:011:21
  • Program Code:011:060
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:2000-04-18T00:00:00
  • Language:eng
  • Distribution:
    https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02021.v1, Work Release in the State of Washington, 1990-1993
www.unicor.gov
  • Description:The FPI internet website; contains public-facing program information and many business applications integrated with back-end SAP systems.
  • Last Update:2013-11-25T00:00:00
  • Public Access Level:public
  • Identity:548
  • Publisher:FPI-UNICOR, 3, BOP, Bureau of Prisons, 10, 10, DOJ, Department of Justice
  • Contact Name:David Marshall, mailto:david.marshall@usdoj.gov
  • Tags:internet, ecommerce, online store, order, product information
  • Bureau Code:011:20
  • Program Code:011:044
  • License:http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
  • Release Date:2013-11-25T00:00:00
  • Distribution:


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