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- (Washington) DC Metropolitan Area Drug Study (DC*MADS) (1991-1992)
Undertaken to assess the full extent of the drug problem in one metropolitan area. Comprised of 16 separate studies that focused on different sub-groups, many of which are typically not included or are underrepresented in household surveys. Iincludes 3 of these component studies:
Study of Household and Non-household Populations examines the prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use among members of household and non-household populations aged 12 and older. Also examines the characteristics of three drug-abusing sub-groups: crack-cocaine, heroin, and needle users. Data include demographics, needle use, needle sharing, and use of tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, crack, inhalants, marijuana, hallucinogens, heroin, sedatives, stimulants, and psychotherapeutics (non-medical use).
Homeless and Transient Population Study includes data on previous living arrangements, tobacco, drug, and alcohol use, consequences of use, treatment history, illegal behavior and arrest, physical and mental health, pregnancy, insurance, employment and finances, and demographics.
Drug Use Among Women Delivering Livebirths in D.C. Hospitals includes data on tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, patterns of use, respondent's general experiences with drug use, including perceptions of the risks and consequences of use, treatment experiences, pregnancy history, and maternal and infant characteristics and outcomes. - Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program/Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) (1987+)
Designed to estimate the prevalence of drug use among persons in the United States who are arrested and booked, and to detect changes in trends in drug use among this population. Data is restricted. Procedures can be found through the site. Also see the nonrestricted Monitoring Drug Epidemics and the Markets That Sustain Them, Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) and ADAM II Data, 2000-2003 and 2007-2010. - Background Checks for Firearm Transfers (1994+)
Describes background checks for firearm transfers. Provides the number of firearm transaction applications checked by state points of contact and local agencies, the number of applications denied and the reasons for denial, and estimates of applications and denials conducted by each type of approval system. Data are also provided on appeals of denied applications and arrests for falsified applications. - Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool (2005+)
Campus crime and fire data. - Capital Punishment in the United States
Annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the years indicated. Information is supplied for basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and state of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the capital offense. Additional information is available for inmates removed from death row by yearend of the last year indicated and for inmates who were executed.Sample Size: All inmates on death row since 1972 in the United States. - Census of Law Enforcement Gang Units, 2007 (CLEGU)
Collected data from all state & local law enforcement agencies with 100 or more sworn officers and at least one officer dedicated solely to addressing gangs and gang activities. Collected data on the operations, workload, policies, and procedures of gang units in large state and local law enforcement agencies in order to expand knowledge of gang prevention and enforcement tactics. Also collected summary measures of gang activity in the agencies' jurisdictions to allow for comparison across jurisdictions with similar gang problems. - Census of Public Defender Offices: County-Based and Local Offices, 2007
Collected data from public defender offices located across 49 states and the District of Columbia. Public defender offices are one of 3 methods through which states and localities ensure that indigent defendants are granted the 6th and 14th Amendment right to counsel. Gathered information on public defender office staffing, expenditures, attorney training, standards and guidelines, and caseloads, including the number and type of cases received by the offices. - Census of Public Defender Offices: State Programs, 2007
Collected data from public defender offices located across 49 states and the District of Columbia. Public defender offices are one of 3 methods through which states and localities ensure that indigent defendants are granted the 6th and 14th Amendment right to counsel. Gathered information on public defender office staffing, expenditures, attorney training, standards and guidelines, and caseloads, including the number and type of cases received by the offices. - Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs Series (CPFFCL) (2002+)
First conducted in 2003 to capture data on the 2002 workload and operations of the 351 publicly funded crime labs operating that year. It is produced every 3 or 4 years since it was first conducted. Includes all state, county, municipal, and federal crime labs that (1) are solely funded by government or whose parent organization is a government agency and (2) employ at least one full-time natural scientist who examines physical evidence in criminal matters and provides reports and opinion testimony with respect to such physical evidence in courts of law. For example, this includes DNA testing and controlled substance identification for federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Some publicly funded crime labs are part of a multi-lab system. Attempted to collect information from each lab in the system. Police identification units, although sometimes responsible for fingerprint analysis, and privately operated facilities were not included in the census. - Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA) (2000, 2004)
To ensure an accurate sampling frame for its Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the Bureau of Justice Statistics periodically sponsors a census of the nation's state & local law enforcement agencies. This census, known as the Directory Survey, gathers data on all police and sheriffs' department that are publicly funded and employ at least 1 full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers. Variables include personnel totals, type of agency, geographic location of agency, and whether the agency had the legal authority to hold a person beyond arraignment for 48 or more hours. Preceded by the Directory of Law Enforcement Agencies (1986, 1992, 1996) - Civil justice survey of state courts (1992+)
Provides a broad-based, systematic examination of the nature of general civil litigation (e.g., tort, contract, and real property cases) disposed in a sample of the nation's 75 most populous counties. Includes information about the types of civil cases litigated at trial, types of plaintiffs and defendants, trial winners, amount of total damages awarded, amount of punitive damages awarded, and case processing time. In addition, information was collected on general civil cases concluded by bench or jury trial that were subsequently appealed to a state's intermediate appellate court or court of last resort. The appellate datasets examine information on the types of civil bench and jury trials appealed, the characteristics of litigants filing an appeal, the frequency in which appellate courts affirm, reverse, or modify trial court outcomes and cases further appealed from an intermediate appellate court to a state court of last resort. - Court Workforce Racial Diversity and Racial Justice in Criminal Case Outcomes in the United States, 2000-2005
Purpose was to determine whether workgroup racial composition is related to sentence outcomes generally, and racial differences in sentencing in particular, across federal districts. Contains information on federal court district characteristics. Data include information about the social context, court context, and diversity of the courtroom workgroup for 90 federal judicial districts provided by 50 judicial district context variables. - Crime in Boomburb Cities: 1970-2004
Focused on the effect of economic resources and racial/ethnic composition on the change in crime rates from 1970-2004 in United States cities in metropolitan areas that experienced a large growth in population after World War II. A total of 352 cities in the following United States metropolitan areas were selected for this study: Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Orange County, Orlando, Phoenix, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Silicon Valley (Santa Clara), and Tampa/St. Petersburg. Selection was based on the fact that these areas developed during a similar time period and followed comparable development trajectories. In particular, these 14 areas, known as the "boomburbs" for their dramatic, post-World War II population growth, all faced issues relating to the rapid growth of tract-style housing and the subsequent development of low density, urban sprawls. Combined place-level data obtained from the United States Census with crime data from the Uniform Crime Reports for five categories of Type I crimes: aggravated assaults, robberies, murders, burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts. Contains a total of 247 variables pertaining to crime, economic resources, and race/ethnic composition. - Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS)
Provides a comprehensive inquiry into the nature of programs & services provided to adult & juvenile offenders involved in the justice system in the United States. Participants included key criminal justice administrators, operations managers, and staff. The goals were to describe current drug treatment practices, policies, and delivery systems for offenders on probation or parole supervision, and in jails, prisons, and youth institutions; to examine agency structures, resources, and other organizational factors that may affect service delivery, including mission, leadership, climate, culture, and beliefs about rehabilitation versus punishment; and to assess coordination and integration across criminal justice agencies and between corrections and treatment systems. Items in the survey included: respondent characteristics, organizational characteristics, correctional programs characteristics (e.g., size, nature, etc.), substance abuse treatment programs characteristics, social networks/agencies collaboration, integration of services with other agencies, attitudes toward punishment and rehabilitation (personal values), organizational needs assessment, organizational culture and climate for treatment, cynicism toward change, organizational commitment to treatment, and perspectives on intradepartmental coordination. - Database of State Tort Law Reforms (3rd), 1980-2008
Codes 10 reforms found in the Database of State Tort Law Reforms (DSTLR 3rd). The DSTLR (3rd) contains the most detailed, complete, and comprehensive legal dataset of the most prevalent tort reforms enacted or revised in all 50 states and the District of Columbia between 1980-2008. For each reform, the DSTLR (3rd) records the effective date, a short description of the reform, whether or not the jury is allowed to know about the reform, whether the reform was upheld or struck down by the states' courts, as well as whether it was amended by the state legislator. - Expenditure and Employment Data for the Criminal Justice System (1971+)
Public expenditure & employment data pertaining to criminal justice activities in the United States. Information on employment, payroll, and expenditures is provided for police, courts, prosecutors' offices, and corrections agencies. Specific variables include identification of each government, number of full- and part-time employees, level of full- and part-time payroll, current expenditures, capital outlay, and intergovernmental expenditures. - Federal Court Cases: Integrated Database (1962+)
Provides an official public record of the business of the federal courts. The data originate from 100 court offices throughout the United States. Information was obtained at 2 points in the life of a case: filing and termination. The termination data contain information on both filing and terminations, while the pending data contain only filing information. For the appellate and civil data, the unit of analysis is a single case. The unit of analysis for the criminal data is a single defendant. Includes bankruptcy petitions. - Federal Justice Statistics Program Data (1978+)
Examines the processing of federal offenders, arrests by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, criminal appeals cases filed in Courts of Appeals, defendants in federal criminal cases filed or terminated in District Court, suspects in federal criminal matters concluded, offenders admitted to prison, offenders released from prison, offenders in prison, statutes for counts of conviction and guideline computations for defendants sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act. - Impact of Legal Advocacy on Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States, 1976-1997
Examined the impacts of jurisdictions' domestic violence policies on violent behavior of family members and intimate partners, on the likelihood that the police discovered an incident, and on the likelihood that the police made an arrest. Combined 2 datasets. Part 1 contains information on police, prosecution policies, and local victim services. Informants within the local agencies of the 50 largest cities in the United States were contacted and asked to complete a survey inventorying policies and activities by type and year of implementation. Data from completed surveys covered 48 cities from 1976 to 1996. Part 2 contains data on domestic violence laws. Data on state statutes from 1976 to 1997 that related to protection orders were collected by a legal expert for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. - Intercity Variation in Youth Homicide, Robbery, and Assault, 1984-2006
Collected data on homicide, robbery, and assault offending for youth 13 to 24 years of age in 91 of the 100 largest cities in the United States (based on the 1980 Census) from various existing data sources. Data on youth homicide perpetration were acquired from the Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) and data on nonlethal youth violence (robbery and assault) were obtained from the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). Annual homicide, robbery, and assault arrest rates per 100,000 age-specific populations (i.e., 13 to 17 and 18 to 24 year olds) were calculated by year for each city in the study. Data on city characteristics were derived from several sources including the County and City Data Books, SHR, and the Vital Statistics Multiple Cause of Death File. - International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) Series
Most far-reaching program of standardized sample surveys to look at a householders' experience with crime, policing, crime prevention, and feelings of insecurity in a large number of nations. It also allows for analysis of how risks of crime vary among different groups of populations across social and demographic lines.
- Wave 1 - 1989 - 17 cities or countries
- Wave 2 - 1992 - 28 cities or countries
- Wave 3 - 1996/1997 - 45 cities or countries
- Wave 4 - 2000/2001 - 39 cities or countries
- Wave 5 - 2004/2005 - over 35 cities or countries
Sample Size: Generally, 1,000 - 2,000 households from each participating country. - Juvenile Court Statistics (1982-1997)
Volume of juvenile cases disposed by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases). - Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) (1987+)
Presents information on three types of general purpose law enforcement agencies: state police, local police, and sheriff's departments. Data from the primary state police agency in each of 49 states (Hawaii does not have a state police agency) are also presented. Variables include size of the populations served by the typical police or sheriff's department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, and other matters relating to management and personnel. - Law Enforcement Statistics (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Summary statistics and guides to microdata on law enforcement. - Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS)
Longitudinal study of families in Los Angeles County, California, and of the neighborhoods in which they live. Designed to answer key research and policy questions in 3 areas:
- Neighborhood, family, and peer effects on children's development
- Effects of welfare reform at the neighborhood level
- Residential mobility and neighborhood change
Also available through ICPSR.Sample Size: Includes 65 neighborhoods with approximately 40-50 households in each neighborhood. Wave 1 includes approximately 3200 children and teens ages 0 to 17. - Monitoring of Federal Criminal Convictions and Sentences: Appeals Data (1993+)
Appellate information from the 12 circuit courts of appeals of the United States. The United States Sentencing Commission compiled from the Clerk of the Court of each court of appeals the final opinions and orders, both published and unpublished, in all criminal appeals for the time period surveyed. The Commission also collected habeas corpus decisions (although technically civil matters), because such cases often involve sentencing issues. Both the "case" and the "defendant" are used in this collection as units of analysis. Each "case" comprises individual records representing all codefendants participating in a consolidated appeal. Each defendant's record comprises the sentencing-related issues corresponding to that particular defendant. - Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences (1987+)
Information on federal criminal cases sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The data files include all cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between November 1, 1987, and September 30, 1995, and were assessed as constitutional. Constitutionality compares each case's sentencing date, circuit, district, and judge to provide uniformity in reporting the cases. The cases are categorized either as New Law, with all offenses occurring after the November 1, 1987, guidelines, or as Mixed Law, with at least one count occurring after the guideline effectiveness date and other counts prior to the guidelines. - Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation (MADCE), 2003-2009
Included 23 drug courts and 6 comparison sites selected from 8 states across the country. The purpose was to: (1) Test whether drug courts reduce drug use, crime, and multiple other problems associated with drug abuse, in comparision with similar offenders not exposed to drug courts, (2) address how drug courts work and for whom by isolating key individual and program factors that make drug courts more or less effective in achieving their desired outcomes, (3) explain how offender attitudes and behaviors change when they are exposed to drug courts and how these changes help explain the effectiveness of drug court programs, and (4) examine whether drug courts generate cost savings. Offenders in all 29 sites were surveyed in 3 waves, at baseline, 6 months later, and 18 months after enrollment. The research comprises 3 major components: process evaluation, impact evaluation, and a cost-benefit analysis. The process evaluation describes how the 23 drug court sites vary in program eligibility, supervision, treatment, team collaboration, and other key policies and practices. The impact evaluation examines whether drug courts produce better outcomes than comparison sites and tests which court policies and offender attitudes might explain those effects. The cost-benefit analysis evaluates drug court costs and benefits. - Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges, 1801-2000
Data on the personal, social, economic, career, and political attributes of judges who served on the United States Courts of Appeals from 1801 to 2000. Includes conventional social background variables such as appointing president, religion, political party affiliation, education, and prior experience. In addition, unique items are provided: the temporal sequence of prior career experiences, the timing of and reason for leaving the bench, gender, race and ethnicity, position numbering analogous to the scheme used for the Supreme Court, American Bar Association rating, and net worth (for judges who began service on the bench after 1978). The second objective of this project was to merge these data with a multi-user database on United States Courts of Appeals decisions. That database includes a unique identification number for each judge participating in a particular decision. The combined databases should enable scholars to explore: (1) intra- and inter-circuit fluctuation in the distribution of social background characteristics, (2) generational and presidential cohort variation in these attributes, and (3) state and partisan control of seats. The collection also facilitates the construction of models that examine the effects of personal attributes on decision-making, while controlling for the conditions above. - Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States District Court Judges, 1801-2000
Data on the personal, social, economic, career, and political attributes of judges who served on the United States District Courts from 1801 to 2000. Includes conventional social background variables such as the name of the appointing president, the judge's religion, political party affiliation, education, and prior experience. In addition, unique items are provided: the temporal sequence of prior career experiences, the timing of and reason for leaving the bench, gender, race and ethnicity, position numbering analogous to the scheme used for the Supreme Court, American Bar Association rating, and net worth (for judges who began service on the bench after 1978). The second objective of this project was to merge these data with a multi-user database on United States District Court decisions. It includes a unique identification number for each judge participating in a particular decision. The combined databases should enable scholars to explore: (1) intra- and inter-circuit fluctuation in the distribution of social background characteristics, (2) generational and presidential cohort variation in these attributes, and (3) state and partisan control of seats. Also facilitates the construction of models that examine the effects of personal attributes on decision making, while controlling for the conditions above. - Multiple Cause of Death Series (1959+)
Includes information about the cause of all recorded deaths. - National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at ICPSR
Preserves and distributes computerized crime and justice data from Federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator initiated research projects. Has a collection of online Resource Guides that highlight popular criminal justice research topics. - National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) (1983+)
In 1983, the National Prisoners Statistics program, which compiled data on prisoner admissions and releases, and the Uniform Parole Reports were combined into one reporting system, the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP). The NCRP evolved from the need to improve and consolidate data on corrections at the national level. Its objective was to provide a consistent and comprehensive description of prisoners entering and leaving the custody or supervision of state and federal authorities. In addition to the state prisons, the Federal Prison System and the California Youth Authority also began reporting data in 1984. - National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Previously called the National Crime Survey (NCS). Has been collecting data on personal and household victimization since 1973. An ongoing survey, conducted twice each year. Primary source of information on the characteristics of criminal victimization and on the number and types of crimes not reported to law enforcement authorities. Includes the supplement Police-Public Contact Survey. For quick analysis from 1993 to the present, use the NCVS Victimization Analysis Tool (NVAT).Sample Size: Nationally representative sample of 42,000 households comprising nearly 76,000 persons. - National Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) Series (2002+)
A multisite research program aimed at improving the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders and integrating criminal justice and public health responses to drug involved offenders. Develop and tests integrated approaches to the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders. Addresses important cross-cutting issues in criminal justice and drug abuse treatment when dealing with the drug involved offender. - National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) (1993+)
Data on nonfatal firearm-related injuries. Commonly called the "CDC Firearm Injury Surveillance Study". Provides the basis for national estimates of nonfatal firearm-related injuries and nonfatal BB/pellet gun-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United States. Beginning in July 2000, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, in collaboration with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, expanded NEISS to collect data on all types and causes of injuries treated in a representative sample of hospitals. This system is called the "NEISS All Injury Program (NEISS AIP)". These data provide the basis for national estimates of all types of nonfatal injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United States. - National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) 1995+
A component part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR). Nationwide view of crime administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, based on the submission of crime information by participating law enforcement agencies. Implemented to meet the new guidelines formulated for the UCR to provide new ways of looking at crime for the 21st century. It is an expanded and enhanced UCR Program, designed to capture incident-level data and data focused on various aspects of a crime incident. - National Job Corps Study (1994-1995)
Job Corps is the nation's largest & most comprehensive residential education and job training program for at-risk youth, ages 16 through 24. Combines classroom, practical, and work-based learning experiences to prepare youths to become more responsible, employable and productive citizens. Contains information on education, employment and earnings, marital status and household composition, fertility, welfare receipt and other income, health, drug use and drug treatment, arrest behavior and criminal incidents conducted against or by the respondent. In addition, the 30-month follow-up interview contains data on literacy skills. - National Judicial Reporting Program (1986+)
Tabulates the number of persons convicted of felonies in state courts and describes their sentences. Data were collected from state courts and state prosecutors in 100 counties of the United States. The collection contains socio-demographic information such as age, race, and sex of the felon. Types of offenses committed include homicide, rape, and robbery. Adjudication variables referring to the process between arrest and sentencing are also included. Data can be analyzed at the national level or by the individual counties. - National Prosecutors Survey (1990+)
Survey of chief prosecutors in state court systems. A chief prosecutor is an official, usually locally elected and typically with the title of district attorney or county attorney, who is in charge of a prosecutorial district made up of one or more counties, and who conducts or supervises the prosecution of felony cases in a state court system. Prosecutors in courts of limited jurisdiction, such as municipal prosecutors, were not included in the survey. The survey's purpose was to obtain detailed descriptive information on prosecutors' offices, as well as information on their policies and practices. - National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) (2003+)
State-based, active surveillance system designed to obtain a complete census of all resident and occurrent violent deaths in participating states. - National Youth Gang Survey
Annual survey of law enforcement agencies to assess the extent of youth gang problems by measuring the presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs in jurisdictions throughout the United States. Summary data. - New Jersey State Police Street Gang Survey (2001, 2004, 2007)
Survey of law enforcement agencies to assess the extent of youth gang problems by measuring the presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs in jurisdictions. For quick analysis see the Dataverse version. - Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) (1979-1990)
Information tracking adult offenders from the point of entry into the criminal justice system (typically by arrest), through final disposition, regardless of whether the offender is convicted or acquitted. Collected by individual states from existing data, the datasets include all cases that reached disposition during the calendar year. Using the individual adult offender as the unit for analysis, selected information is provided about the offender and his or her arrest, prosecution, and court disposition. Examples of variables included are arrest and level of arrest charge, date of arrest, charge filed by the prosecutor, prosecutor or grand jury disposition, type of counsel, type of trial, court disposition, sentence type, and minimum and maximum sentence length. Dates of disposition of each stage of the process allow for tracking of time spent at each stage. - Organizations Convicted in Federal Criminal Courts (1987+)
Offense and sentencing characteristics for organizations sentenced in federal district courts. - Pretrial Release of Latino Defendants in the United States, 1990-2004
Assessed the impact of Latino ethnicity on pretrial release decisions in large urban counties. - Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. 1994+
Large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. It was designed to advance the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors. In particular, the project examined the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence. Also provides a detailed look at the environments in which these social behaviors take place by collecting substantial amounts of data about urban Chicago, including its people, institutions, and resources. - Proquest Statistical Datasets
Provides easy access to a wide variety of economic, social, political, and marketing indicators. - School Survey on Crime and Safety (2000+) (SSOCS)
Collects extensive crime & safety data from principals & school administrators of United States public schools. Can be used to examine the relationship between school characteristics and violent and serious violent crimes in primary schools, middle schools, high schools, and combined schools. Can also be used to assess what crime prevention programs, practices, and policies are used by schools. SSOCS has been conducted in school years 1999-2000, 2003-2004, and 2005-2006. 2007-2008 is available direct on the NCES site. Also see the NCES Bibliography for literature that has used this data. - State Court Processing Statistics (1990-2006)
Undertaken to determine whether accurate and comprehensive pretrial data can be collected at the local level and subsequently aggregated at the state and federal levels. The data contained in this collection provide a picture of felony defendants' movements through the criminal courts. Offenses were recoded into 14 broad categories that conform to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' crime definitions. Other variables include sex, race, age, prior record, relationship to criminal justice system at the time of the offense, pretrial release, detention decisions, court appearances, pretrial rearrest, adjudication, and sentencing. The unit of analysis is the defendant. Formerly National Pretrial Reporting Program (1988-1993). - State Court Statistics (1985+)
Provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project (CSP) Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. The trial caseload consists of civil, domestic relations, criminal, juvenile, and traffic violation cases. The appellate caseload consists of appeal by right, appeal by permission, death penalty, and original proceeding/other appellate matter cases. - Survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies [United States] Series
In 1995, to determine the nature of law enforcement services provided on campus, the Bureau of Justice Statistics surveyed 4-year institutions of higher education in the United States with 2,500 or more students. Describes nearly 600 of these campus law enforcement agencies in terms of their personnel, expenditures and pay, operations, equipment, computers and information systems, policies, and special programs. Based on the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics program, which collected similar data from a national sample of state and local law enforcement agencies. A follow-up was conducted in 2004/2005. - Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States] (1960+)
Periodic nationwide assessments of reported crimes not available elsewhere in the criminal justice system. With the 1977 data, the title was expanded to Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data. Each year, participating law enforcement agencies contribute reports to the FBI either directly or through their state reporting programs. ICPSR archives the UCR data as 5 separate components: (1) summary data, (2) county-level data, (3) incident-level data (National Incident-Based Reporting System [NIBRS]), (4) hate crime data, and (5) various, mostly nonrecurring, data collections. Summary data are reported in four types of files: (a) Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest, (b) Property Stolen and Recovered, (c) Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), and (d) Police Employee (LEOKA) Data (Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Assaulted). County-level data provide counts of arrests and offenses aggregated to the county level. County populations are also reported. In the late 1970s, new ways to look at crime were studied. The UCR program was subsequently expanded to capture incident-level data with the implementation of the National Incident-Based Reporting System. The NIBRS data focus on various aspects of a crime incident. Gathering of hate crime data by the UCR program was begun in 1990. Hate crimes are defined as crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. In September 1994, disabilities, both physical and mental, were added to the list. The 5th component of ICPSR's UCR holdings is comprised of various collections, many of which are nonrecurring and prepared by individual researchers. These collections go beyond the scope of the standard UCR collections provided by the FBI, either by including data for a range of years or by focusing on other aspects of analysis. Also see Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports, 1977-2000. Select data is also contained in ProQuest Statistical Datasets. - United States National Church Shooting Database, 1980-2005
Uses online newspaper archive articles to document all cases of shootings on church property within the United States from 1980-2005. - Violence Against Women Resource Guide
Guide to data useful for the study of violence against women available from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at ICPSR. - Violence, Vandalism And Substance Abuse In New Jersey Schools (1999+)
Data down to the school district level.
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