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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 15, 2021 at 01:51 PM

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics Conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, this survey is part of a series of data gathering efforts undertaken to assist policymakers in...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 22, 2021 at 06:45 PM

The purpose of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country is an enumeration of all known adult and juvenile facilities -- jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: July 13, 2006 at 12:00 AM

The study compiles data on the law enforcement, courts and administration, corrections and intermediate sanctions, criminal history records, and justice statistics of the federally...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 04, 2008 at 09:18 AM

This data collection, conducted in a federal penitentiary and prison camp in Terre Haute, Indiana, between September 1986 and July 1988, was undertaken to examine the reliability and validity...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 16, 2021 at 11:16 AM

The Mortality In Correctional Institutions (MCI) data collection (formerly Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)), collects quarterly inmate death records from each of the nation's 50...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: August 11, 2016 at 09:28 AM

The Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC) collected basic information on facility characteristics, including size, structure, security arrangements, and ownership. It also collected...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM

In 1983, the National Institute of Justice sponsored a program evaluation survey by Abt Associates that was designed to identify the highest priority needs for management and operational ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

The United Nations International Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch began the Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (formerly known as the World Crime...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: August 03, 2012 at 02:33 PM

Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, Congress mandated that the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) investigate former prisoners' experiences in...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

These data describe the results of one component of an evaluation of the "shock incarceration" program in the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDPSC). This...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 15, 2021 at 01:51 PM

To fulfill part of its mission, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) conducted the Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI), a national, wide-ranging survey of prisoners age 18 or older who were...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This study provides a descriptive analysis of confinement facilities and state-operated community-based correctional facilities nationwide. Decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers may...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 21, 2001 at 12:00 AM

This census is the fourth enumeration of state adult correctional institutions and the first of federal institutions sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the Bureau of...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This study assessed the effects of male inmate religiosity on post-release community adjustment and investigated the circumstances under which these effects were most likely to take place....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2022 at 02:09 PM

To reduce respondent burden for the 2019 collection, the Census of Jails was combined with the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP). The census provides the sampling frame for the nationwide...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: February 16, 1992 at 12:00 AM

These data were gathered in order to evaluate the implications of rational choice theory for offender rehabilitation. The hypothesis of the research was that income-enhancing prison ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This evaluation was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office to examine the effectiveness of specialized prosecutorial activities in dealing with the local...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 27, 2021 at 08:18 AM

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects and analyzes data on the incidence and effects of sexual violence in prisons and jails. The data, in various datasets, are collected from...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 11, 2003 at 12:00 AM

This study sought (1) to set up a system to evaluate the operations and effectiveness of The Other Way (TOW) residential substance abuse treatment program at the Clarinda Correctional...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This collection provides annual data on jail populations across the nation and examines the "spillover" effect on local jails resulting from the dramatic growth in federal and state prison...

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