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Collection Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) Series (Formerly Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities (SISFCF))
Department of Justice —
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... -
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White-Collar Criminal Careers, 1976-1978: Federal Judicial Districts
Department of Justice —
This study examined the criminal careers of 1,331 offenders convicted of white-collar crimes in the United States District Courts to assess the relative effectiveness... -
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Collection Capital Punishment in the United States Series
Department of Justice —
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... -
Federal
Collection Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities Series
Department of Justice —
Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics This series of studies contains a descriptive analysis of federal and state-operated adult confinement and correctional... -
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Race and the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty in Federal Cases, 1995-2000 [United States]
Department of Justice —
The purpose of this project was to examine possible defendant and victim race effects in capital decisions in the federal system. Per the terms of their grant, the... -
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Homicides in New York City, 1797-1999 [And Various Historical Comparison Sites]
Department of Justice —
There has been little research on United States homicide rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been no consistent data series on a... -
Federal
Chicago Women's Health Risk Study, 1995-1998
Department of Justice —
The goal of the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (CWHRS) was to develop a reliable and validated profile of risk factors directly related to lethal or life-... -
Federal
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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Robberies in Chicago, 1982-1983
Department of Justice —
This study investigates the factors and conditions in robbery events that cause victim injury or death. The investigators compare three robbery events: those that... -
Federal
Evaluation of CeaseFire, a Chicago-based Violence Prevention Program, 1991-2007
Department of Justice —
This study evaluated CeaseFire, a program of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention. The evaluation had both outcome and process components. The outcome... -
Federal
Multistate Analysis of Time Consumption in Capital Appeals, 1992-2002
Department of Justice —
Despite public controversy over the length of death penalty appeals, little empirical work has been done on the time allocated to the capital appeals process. The... -
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Habeas Corpus Litigation in United States District Courts: An Empirical Study, 2000-2006
Department of Justice —
The purpose of the Habeas Corpus Litigation in United States District Courts: An Empirical Study, 2007 is to provide empirical information about habeas corpus cases... -
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Characteristics and Movement of Felons in California Prisons, 1851-1964
Department of Justice —
Felons in the California prison system are documented in this data collection. The data are arranged by year and type of movement within the prison system, and... -
Federal
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,... -
Federal
Investigation and Prosecution of Homicide Cases in the United States, 1995-2000: The Process for Federal Involvement
Department of Justice —
This study addressed questions related to potential geographic and racial disparity in the investigation and prosecution of federal capital cases and examined the... -
Federal
Collection Census of Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices (MECO) Series
Department of Justice —
The Census of medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices (MECO) is a compilation of data on the practices of these offices, which are responsible for medical-legal... -
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Database for Forensic Anthropology in the United States, 1962-1991
Department of Justice —
This project was undertaken to establish a computerized skeletal database composed of recent forensic cases to represent the present ethnic diversity and demographic... -
Federal
Collection Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) Series (Formerly Deaths In Custody Reporting Program (DCRP))
Department of Justice —
The Mortality In Correctional Institutions (MCI) data collection (formerly Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)), collects quarterly inmate death records from... -
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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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Using Public Health Databases to Analyze Legal Intervention Shootings, United States, 2006-2017
Department of Justice —
This project used national databases to describe the incidence and distribution of fatal and nonfatal police shootings and to develop an empirically based typology of...