33 datasets found
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Characteristics of High and Low Crime Neighborhoods in Atlanta, 1980
Department of Justice —
This study examines the question of how some urban neighborhoods maintain a low crime rate despite their proximity and similarity to relatively high crime areas. The... -
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Crime Factors and Neighborhood Decline in Chicago, 1979
Department of Justice —
This study explores the relationship between crime and neighborhood deterioration in eight neighborhoods in Chicago. The neighborhoods were selected on the basis of... -
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Informal Social Control of Crime in High Drug Use Neighborhoods in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, 2000
Department of Justice —
This neighborhood-level study sought to explore the effect of cultural disorganization, in terms of both weakened conventional culture and value heterogeneity, on... -
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Study of Race, Crime, and Social Policy in Oakland, California, 1976-1982
Department of Justice —
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... -
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Residential Neighborhood Crime Control Project: Hartford, Connecticut, 1973, 1975-1977, 1979
Department of Justice —
This data collection contains responses to victimization surveys that were administered as part of both the planning and evaluation stages of the Hartford Project, a... -
Federal
National Youth Gang Intervention and Suppression Survey, 1980-1987
Department of Justice —
This survey was conducted by the National Youth Gang Intervention and Suppression Program. The primary goals of the program were to assess the national scope of the... -
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Reporting Sexual Assault to the Police in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987-1992
Department of Justice —
This study was undertaken to investigate factors facilitating and hindering a victim's decision to report a sexual assault to the police. Further objectives were to... -
Federal
Evaluation of the Tribal Strategies Against Violence (TSAV) Initiative in Four Tribal Sites in the United States, 1995-1999
Department of Justice —
This study evaluated the Tribal Strategies Against Violence (TSAV) Initiative. The TSAV was a federal-tribal partnership, lasting from 1995 to 1999, designed to... -
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Police Arrest Decisions in Intimate Partner Violence Cases in the United States, 2000 and 2003
Department of Justice —
The purpose of the study was to better understand the factors associated with police decisions to make an arrest or not in cases of heterosexual partner violence and... -
Federal
Impact Assessment of Sex Offender Notification on Wisconsin Communities, 1998
Department of Justice —
In response to widespread public concern about convicted sex offenders being returned from prison, federal and state laws have been passed authorizing or requiring... -
Federal
Reactions to Crime in Atlanta and Chicago, 1979-1980
Department of Justice —
Two previously released data collections from ICPSR are combined in this dataset: CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH AND LOW CRIME NEIGHBORHOODS IN ATLANTA, 1980 (ICPSR 7951)... -
Federal
Evaluation of the Midtown Community Court in New York City, 1992-1994
Department of Justice —
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... -
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Census of Problem-Solving Courts, 2012
Department of Justice —
With the creation of the first drug court in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1989, problem-solving courts emerged as an innovative effort to close the revolving door of... -
Federal
Neighborhood Revitalization and Disorder in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1993-2000
Department of Justice —
This project examined physical incivilities (disorder), social strengths and vulnerabilities, and police reports in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City.... -
Federal
Implementation of Community Corrections in Oregon, Colorado, and Connecticut [1981]
Department of Justice —
Data were collected from three states to evaluate the success of community corrections programs and to identify the conditions that underlie these successes. In-... -
Federal
Attitudes Toward Crime and Punishment in Vermont: Public Opinion About an Experiment With Restorative Justice, 1999
Department of Justice —
By the summer of 1998, the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) had completed three years of operational experience with "restorative justice," a concept that... -
Federal
Community Context and Sentencing Decisions in 39 Counties in the United States, 1998
Department of Justice —
This study aimed to understand the extent to which punishment is influenced by the larger social context in which it occurs by examining both the main and... -
Federal
School Culture, Climate, and Violence: Safety in Middle Schools of the Philadelphia Public School System, 1990-1994
Department of Justice —
This study was designed to explore school culture and climate and their effects on school disorder, violence, and academic performance on two levels. At the macro... -
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Project on Policing Neighborhoods in Indianapolis, Indiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida, 1996-1997
Department of Justice —
The purpose of the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN) was to provide an in-depth description of how the police and the community interact with each other in a... -
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Predicting Crime through Incarceration: The Impact of Prison Cycling on Crime in Communities in Boston, Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey, and Rural New Jersey, 2000-2010
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,...
33 datasets found