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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: June 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM

The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanants' failure to appear (FTA) rates. The study examined the problem of...

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

The purpose of the study was to provide information about home detention monitoring systems and to evaluate their effectiveness. The principal investigators sought to determine (1) whether...

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

This project was designed to evaluate the use of a drug detection instrument, the ion mobility spectrometer (IMS), and to integrate its use into an ongoing pretrial diversion program for ...

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

The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing is a legislative agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Commission develops sentencing guidelines for judges to use when sentencing felony...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: July 24, 2014 at 10:22 AM

The Pathways to Desistance study was a multi-site study that followed 1,354 serious juvenile offenders from adolescence to young adulthood in two locales between the years 2000 and 2010. Enrolled...

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

This study is a replication and extension of an experiment conducted in Minneapolis (MINNEAPOLIS INTERVENTION PROJECT, 1986-1987 [ICPSR 9808]) to test the efficacy of three types of police...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 08, 2012 at 02:26 PM

This study involved an evaluation of the reentry component of the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership (IVRP). The IVRP included a problem solving approach to the issue of inmate reentry....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: August 22, 2012 at 09:05 AM

The specific aim of this project was to evaluate the usefulness of the Seattle Police Department's (SPD) Lethality Scale in identifying misdemeanor cases that might be high risk for...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: July 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM

As part of its organization-wide transition to community policing in 1989, the Portland Police Bureau, in collaboration with the Family Violence Intervention Steering Committee of...

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

The United States Sentencing Commission, established by the 98th Congress, is an independent agency in the judicial branch of government. The Commission recommends guidelines prescribing the...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 29, 2016 at 12:19 PM

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they there received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed...

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

Effective October 1, 1994, the state of North Carolina implemented a new structured sentencing law that applied to all felony and misdemeanor crimes (except for driving while impaired)...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 29, 2016 at 02:34 PM

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they there received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed...

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

In October 1993, the Midtown Community Court opened as a three-year demonstration project designed to forge links with the community in developing a problem-solving approach to...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: July 31, 2013 at 02:45 PM

The study focused on domestic violence victims whose alleged batterers were free on bond with a no-contact order (NCO) as a condition of their release in Lexington County, South Carolina between...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 29, 2018 at 09:17 AM

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, but not checked or processed...

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

The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing is a legislative agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that develops sentencing guidelines for judges to use when sentencing felony and...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 29, 2020 at 10:03 AM

In 2014, the researchers began work on a grant from the National Institute of Justice to evaluate the effectiveness of home and field contacts in community supervision. The study was designed to...

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

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 dismissals, acquittals,...

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