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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...

• FILE

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

The primary objective of this project was to explore the familial, physical, psychological, social, and cultural antecedents and correlates of violent criminal offending. This research used...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 05, 2014 at 02:51 PM

RECIDIVISM OF PRISONERS RELEASED IN 1994 is a database containing information on each of 38,624 sampled prisoners released from prisons in 15 states in 1994 and tracked for three years...

• V8

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

In 1980, the National Institute of Justice awarded a grant to the Cornell University College of Human Ecology for the establishment of the Center for the Study of Race, Crime, and Social Policy...

• V1

• 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...

• V1

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

Boot camps, a popular alternative to standard correctional facilities, are characterized by a strong emphasis on military structure, drill, and discipline and by an abbreviated period of ...

• V1

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

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, researchers wanted to determine...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 27, 1995 at 12:00 AM

The purpose of this study was to apply the latest version of a typological system for rapists (MTC:R3) developed at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons (MTC) to a...

• V1

• 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...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: June 12, 2013 at 04:38 PM

Investigator(s): Pretrial Services Resource Center The National Pretrial Reporting Program project was initiated in 1983 by the Pretrial Services Resource Center with funding from the...

• FILE

• 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...

• V4

• 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....

• V1

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

These data focus on persons arrested for burglary or armed robbery in New Orleans during 1973-1986. Local, state, and federal arrest records were combined with local and state custody records...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 04, 2000 at 12:00 AM

This study was undertaken to measure the impact of the standard, treatment, and sanction dockets, which comprise the Superior Court Drug Intervention Program (SCDIP), on drug-involved...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 31, 2022 at 03:13 PM

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics These data collections provide annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated...

• FILE

• 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...

• V2

• 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...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 08, 2011 at 12:00 PM

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and prisoners whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the period 1973-2009. Information...

• V2

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 08, 1993 at 12:00 AM

This data collection examines the effects of sentencing on offenders' subsequent criminal behaviors. The data address the following questions: (1) At what point in the criminal career is the...

• V2

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

By 1996 it became apparent that the Los Angeles county jails faced a serious overcrowding problem. Two possible solutions to the problem were to build more jail capacity or to divert a...

• V2