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Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Study, Los Angeles, California, 1982-2010
Department of Justice —
The study addressed the growing problem of untested sexual assault kits that have been collected and stored in law enforcement agencies' storage facilities and... -
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Evaluation of No-Drop Policies for Domestic Violence Cases in San Diego, California, Omaha, Nebraska, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Everett, Washington, 1996-2000
Department of Justice —
This study sought to examine the effects of no-drop policies on court outcomes, victim satisfaction with the justice system, and feelings of safety. Moreover,... -
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Bethlehem [Pennsylvania] Police Family Group Conferencing Project, 1993-1997
Department of Justice —
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of conferencing as a restorative policing practice. Family group conferencing is considered an important... -
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Evaluation of Pre-Trial Settlement Conference: Dade County, Florida, Criminal Court, 1979
Department of Justice —
This study reports on the implementation in Dade County, Florida, of a proposal to involve, on a voluntary basis, victims, defendants, and police in a judicial plea... -
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Analyzing Trial Time in California, Colorado, and New Jersey, 1986
Department of Justice —
This study of nine courts was undertaken to identify procedural factors that can be used to reduce the length of criminal and civil trials without impairing fairness.... -
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Assessment of a Single-Purpose Substance Abuse Facility for Committed Juvenile Offenders in Virginia, 1995-1997
Department of Justice —
The objective of this data collection was to provide a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of treatment offered at the Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center, a... -
Federal
Community-Level Influences on the Sentencing of Convicted Sex Offenders, Pennsylvania, 2004-2010
Department of Justice —
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,... -
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Impact of Rape Reform Legislation in Six Major Urban Jurisdictions in the United States, 1970-1985
Department of Justice —
Despite the fact that most states enacted rape reform legislation by the mid-1980s, empirical research on the effect of these laws was conducted in only four states... -
Federal
Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1984-1987
Department of Justice —
This data collections provides information on each juvenile case disposed in the state of Missouri during calendar years 1984-1987. The state of Missouri began... -
Federal
Factors Related to Domestic Violence Court Dispositions in a Large Midwestern Urban Area, 1997-1998: [United States]
Department of Justice —
The goal of this study was to identify factors that influence whether city misdemeanor domestic violence cases in which batterers are arrested by police result in... -
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Arkansas Juvenile Court Records, 1994
Department of Justice —
This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1994 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency,... -
Federal
Assessing Local Legal Culture: Practitioner Norms in Four Criminal Courts, 1979
Department of Justice —
This study attempts to operationalize the concept of local legal culture by examining differences in the processing of twelve hypothetical criminal cases in four... -
Federal
Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining in Federal Criminal Courts in the United States, 1983-1990
Department of Justice —
The primary purpose of this data collection was to study whether prosecutorial behavior was affected by the implementation of federal criminal sentencing guidelines...