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Changing Patterns of Drug Abuse and Criminality Among Crack Cocaine Users in New York City: Criminal Histories and Criminal Justice System Processing, 1983-1984, 1986
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This data collection compares a sample of persons arrested for offenses related to crack cocaine with a sample arrested for offenses related to powdered cocaine. The... -
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Impact Evaluation of Stop Violence Against Women Grants in Dane County, Wisconsin, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Jackson County, Missouri, and Stark County, Ohio, 1996-2000
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In 1996 the Institute for Law and Justice (ILJ) began an evaluation of the law enforcement and prosecution components of the "STOP Violence Against Women" grant... -
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Arrests Without Conviction, 1979-1980: Jacksonville and San Diego
Department of Justice —
This data collection includes information on robberies and burglaries in two cities, Jacksonville, Florida, and San Diego, California. The unit of analysis is... -
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Search Warrant Procedures in Seven Cities, 1984: [United States]
Department of Justice —
These data were collected in seven unnamed cities by the National Center of State Courts. Court cases were identified in one of three ways: (1) observation during... -
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Evaluation of No-Drop Policies for Domestic Violence Cases in San Diego, California, Omaha, Nebraska, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Everett, Washington, 1996-2000
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This study sought to examine the effects of no-drop policies on court outcomes, victim satisfaction with the justice system, and feelings of safety. Moreover,... -
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Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Study, Los Angeles, California, 1982-2010
Department of Justice —
The study addressed the growing problem of untested sexual assault kits that have been collected and stored in law enforcement agencies' storage facilities and... -
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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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Analyzing Trial Time in California, Colorado, and New Jersey, 1986
Department of Justice —
This study of nine courts was undertaken to identify procedural factors that can be used to reduce the length of criminal and civil trials without impairing fairness.... -
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Robbery of Financial Institutions in Indiana, 1982-1984
Department of Justice —
The goals of this data collection were to provide information on robbery-related security measures employed by financial institutions, to identify factors that... -
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Survey of Prosecutorial Response to Bias-Motivated Crime in the United States, 1994-1995
Department of Justice —
This national survey of prosecutors was undertaken to systematically gather information about the handling of bias or hate crime prosecutions in the United States.... -
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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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Assessment of a Single-Purpose Substance Abuse Facility for Committed Juvenile Offenders in Virginia, 1995-1997
Department of Justice —
The objective of this data collection was to provide a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of treatment offered at the Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center, a... -
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Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases with Reluctant Victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1994-1995
Department of Justice —
Officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, introduced two experiments designed to provide answers to questions of how to deal with victim reluctance in domestic violence... -
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Evaluation of Pre-Trial Settlement Conference: Dade County, Florida, Criminal Court, 1979
Department of Justice —
This study reports on the implementation in Dade County, Florida, of a proposal to involve, on a voluntary basis, victims, defendants, and police in a judicial plea... -
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The Anatomy of Discretion: An Analysis of Prosecutorial Decision-making for Cases Processed by Offices in One Northern County and One Southern County, 2007-2010
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Prosecuting attorneys enjoy broad discretion in making decisions that influence criminal case outcomes. This study examines the impact of legal, quasi-legal, and... -
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National Evaluation of the Arrest Policies Program Under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 1996-2000
Department of Justice —
This study was undertaken to evaluate the impact of the Arrest Policies Program, funded by the Violence Against Women Office (VAWO), on criminal justice system... -
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Assessing Local Legal Culture: Practitioner Norms in Four Criminal Courts, 1979
Department of Justice —
This study attempts to operationalize the concept of local legal culture by examining differences in the processing of twelve hypothetical criminal cases in four... -
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Impact of Rape Reform Legislation in Six Major Urban Jurisdictions in the United States, 1970-1985
Department of Justice —
Despite the fact that most states enacted rape reform legislation by the mid-1980s, empirical research on the effect of these laws was conducted in only four states... -
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Bethlehem [Pennsylvania] Police Family Group Conferencing Project, 1993-1997
Department of Justice —
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of conferencing as a restorative policing practice. Family group conferencing is considered an important... -
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Use of Adjuncts to Supplement Judicial Resources in Six Jurisdictions, 1983-1986: [United States]
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This multi-site data collection evaluates the impact of judicial adjunct attorneys and referees on the court system at the county and state levels in six...