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

A leading sociological theory of crime is the "routine activities" approach (Cohen and Felson, 1979). The premise of this theory is that the rate of occurrence of crime is affected by the ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 18, 2018 at 11:41 AM

Researchers have long been able to analyze crime and law enforcement data at the individual agency level and at the county level using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 28, 2011 at 02:13 PM

A pilot outreach project of the National Intstitute of Justice's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program, the rural Nebraska ADAM program examined the prevalence and type of arrestee drug...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 10, 1999 at 12:00 AM

The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program measures levels of and trends in drug use among persons arrested and booked in the United States. The ADAM Program is a redesigned version of...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: February 25, 2015 at 01:15 PM

This study evaluated CeaseFire, a program of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention. The evaluation had both outcome and process components. The outcome evaluation assessed the program's...

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

The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program, the successor to the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) Program (DRUG USE FORECASTING IN 24 CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1987-1997 [ICPSR 9477]),...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM

The purpose of the study was to determine how Compstat programs were being implemented across the United States by examining the diffusion of Compstat and factors associated with its...

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

The goal of this study was to provide useful data on how street gang crime patterns (by amount and type of offense) relate to common patterns of street gang structure, thus providing...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 30, 2019 at 09:46 AM

The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in...

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

The Fifth United Nations Survey, covering the years 1990-1994, was designed to collect data on the incidence of reported crime and the operation of criminal justice systems with a view...

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

Beginning in 1996, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) initiated a major redesign of its multisite drug-monitoring program, the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) system (DRUG USE FORECASTING IN...

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

The objective of this research was to estimate the elasticity of the demand for cocaine and heroin with respect to the price. Price elasticity is the percentage of change in the dependent ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 30, 2019 at 04:35 PM

The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: June 05, 2003 at 12:00 AM

This study sought to examine the extent, nature, and consequences of pathological gambling disorders in arrestee populations. Five research questions were addressed: (1) What is the prevalence...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 06, 2017 at 02:12 PM

The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in...

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

This study sought to assess changes in the volume and types of homicide committed in Philadelphia, Phoenix, and St. Louis from 1980 to 1994 and to document the nature of those changes. Three of...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 16, 2004 at 12:00 AM

Researchers have long been able to analyze crime and law enforcement data at the individual agency level (see UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 9028]) and at...

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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: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This research project was designed to demonstrate the contributions that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis procedures can make to the study of crime patterns in a ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 27, 2021 at 10:44 AM

The study assesses the extent of commonalities between individuals who become involved in violent extremist groups and criminal gangs, and the processes by which individuals engage in each group....

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