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Survey of Gun Owners in the United States, 1996
Department of Justice —
This study was undertaken to obtain information on the characteristics of gun ownership, gun-carrying practices, and weapons-related incidents in the United States --... -
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Understanding the Causes of School Violence Using Open Source Data, United States, 1990-2016
Department of Justice —
This study provides an evidence-based understanding on etiological issues related to school shootings and rampage shootings. It created a national, open-source... -
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National Survey of Adolescents in the United States, 1995
Department of Justice —
The goal of this study was to test specific hypotheses illustrating the relationships among serious victimization experiences, the mental health effects of... -
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21st Century Corporate Financial Fraud, United States, 2005-2010
Department of Justice —
The Corporate Financial Fraud project is a study of company and top-executive characteristics of firms that ultimately violated Securities and Exchange Commission... -
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Exploring the Drugs-Crime Connection Within the Electronic Dance Music and Hip Hop Nightclub Scenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005-2006
Department of Justice —
To explore the relationship between alcohol, drugs, and crime in the electronic dance music and hip hop nightclub scenes of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, researchers... -
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Homicides in Chicago, 1965-1995
Department of Justice —
These datasets contain information on every homicide in the murder analysis files of the Chicago Police Department for the years 1965-1995. For the victim-level file,... -
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Criminal Recidivism in a Large Cohort of Offenders Released from Prison in Florida, 2004-2008
Department of Justice —
The purpose of the study was to quantify the effect of the embrace of DNA technology on offender behavior. In particular, researchers examined whether an offender's... -
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Felonious Homicides of American Police Officers, 1977-1992
Department of Justice —
The study was a comprehensive analysis of felonious killings of officers. The purposes of the study were (1) to analyze the nature and circumstances of incidents of... -
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Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization Against Latinos, San Diego, CA, Galveston, TX, Houston, TX, Boston, MA, 2018-2019
Department of Justice —
This study surveyed immigrant and non-immigrant populations residing in high Latino population communities in order to: Assess the nature and pattern of bias... -
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Forensic Evidence and the Police, 1976-1980
Department of Justice —
This data collection focuses on adult cases of serious crime such as homicide (and related death investigations), rape, robbery, aggravated assault/battery, burglary,... -
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Boston Police Department Domestic Violence Research Project, 1993-1994
Department of Justice —
The Domestic Violence Research Project was a pilot study designed to examine the dynamics of domestic violence within two of the ten police districts that comprise... -
Federal
Monitoring Drug Epidemics and the Markets That Sustain Them, Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) and ADAM II Data, 2000-2003 and 2007-2010
Department of Justice —
This study examined trends in the use of five widely abused drugs among arrestees at 10 geographically diverse locations from 2000 to 2010: Atlanta, Charlotte,... -
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Detection of Crime, Resource Deployment, and Predictors of Success: A Multi-Level Analysis of CCTV in Newark, New Jersey, 2007-2011
Department of Justice —
The Detection of Crime, Resource Deployment, and Predictors of Success: A Multi-Level Analysis of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) in Newark, NJ collection represents... -
Federal
State-Level Data on Juvenile Delinquency and Violence, Mental-Health and Psychotropic-Medication Related Issues, and School Accountability, United States, 1990-2014
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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Fraud Victimization Survey, 1990: [United States]
Department of Justice —
The fraud victimization survey was administered by telephone to 400 respondents 18 years or older. Screener items were used to determine whether respondents had been... -
Federal
Evaluation of the Children at Risk Program in Austin, Texas, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Memphis, Tennessee, Savannah, Georgia, and Seattle, Washington, 1993-1997
Department of Justice —
The Children at Risk (CAR) Program was a comprehensive, neighborhood-based strategy for preventing drug use, delinquency, and other problem behaviors among high-risk... -
Federal
Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States]
Department of Justice —
This study reexamined and recoded missing data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for the years 1977 to 2000 for all police agencies in the United States. The... -
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Police Decision Making in Sexual Assault Cases: An Analysis of Crime Reported to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, 2008
Department of Justice —
This study used a mixed-methods approach to pursue five interrelated objectives: (1) to document the extent of case attrition and to identify the stages of the... -
Federal
Risk Assessment and Schemes for Sexual Recidivism: A 25 Year Follow-Up of Convicted Sex Offenders Referred to the Massachusetts Treatment Center, 1959-1984
Department of Justice —
The aim of the study was to evaluate and to improve the decision-making algorithms that have been generated to assess risk in sexual offenders. More specifically, it... -
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National Evaluation of Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP), 1996-2003 [United States]
Department of Justice —
The goal of this study was to conduct a national empirical assessment of post-release employment and recidivism effects based on legislative intent for inmates...