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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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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... -
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-... -
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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
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... -
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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
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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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... -
Federal
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
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
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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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
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
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... -
Federal
Intercity Variation in Youth Homicide, Robbery, and Assault, 1984-2006 [United States]
Department of Justice —
The research team collected data on homicide, robbery, and assault offending from 1984-2006 for youth 13 to 24 years of age in 91 of the 100 largest cities in the... -
Federal
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... -
Federal
Spatial Analysis of Crime in Appalachia [United States], 1977-1996
Department of Justice —
This research project was designed to demonstrate the contributions that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis procedures can make to the study of... -
Federal
Nature and Patterns of Homicide in Eight American Cities, 1978
Department of Justice —
This dataset contains detailed information on homicides in eight United States cities: Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Dallas, Oakland, and... -
Federal
Learning Deficiencies Among Adult Inmates, 1982: Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington
Department of Justice —
The National Institute of Justice sponsored this study of 1,065 prison inmates in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Respondents were administered an academic... -
Federal
Person or Place? A Contextual, Event-History Analysis of Homicide Victimization Risk, United States, 2004-2012
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,...