Datasets
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Understanding the Impact of School Safety on the High School Transition Experience: From Etiology to Prevention, Flint, Michigan, 2016
This is a multi-method study of school violence and victimization during the transition to high school. This study has two major data collection efforts. First, a full... -
Optimizing Video Surveillance in Correctional Settings, Minnesota, 2015-2019
The Urban Institute and the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MnDOC) attempted to improve the surveillance system in two state correctional facilities: Stillwater (STW) and... -
Developing a Taxonomy To Understand and Measure Outcomes of Success in Community-Based Elder Mistreatment Interventions, New York City, New York, 2018-2019
Research tools available to help advance knowledge of effective community-based elder mistreatment (EM) interventions are limited. The field lacks an understanding of what... -
Examining the Effectiveness of Indigent Defense Team Services: A Multisite Evaluation of Holistic Defense in Practice, Kentucky, Minnesota, Rhode Island, 2015-2018
The goals of this project were to: describe the implementation of holistic defense principles in three indigent defense programs; measure each program's impact on pretrial court... -
Impacts of Social Proximity to Bias Crime Among Compact of Free Association (COFA)-Migrants in Hawaii, 2017-2018
This study utilized respondent-driven sampling (RDS) among Compact of Free Association (COFA)-migrants in Hawaii to explore the harms of bias crimes on migrant communities. To... -
21st Century Corporate Financial Fraud, United States, 2005-2010
The Corporate Financial Fraud project is a study of company and top-executive characteristics of firms that ultimately violated Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)... -
Jurors' Judgments About Forensic Identification Evidence, Arizona, 2011-2014
This data file describes three different experiments that were designed to examine how differences in the way forensic scientific evidence is communicated affects jurors. In... -
The Role of Social Networks in the Evolution of Al Qaeda-inspired Violent Extremism in the United States, 1990-2014
This study compiled data on American jihadists and other Islamic extremists recruited since the early 1990s. Specifically, "homegrown" terrorist, referring to Americans and... -
Assessing the Impact of Post-Release Community Supervision on Post-Release Recidivism and Employment, United States, 2004-2011
This study sought to examine the effect of of two separate forms of post-prison supervision on offender recidivism and employment outcomes: split supervision and conditional... -
Estimating the Prevalence of Wrongful Convictions, Virginia, 1973-1987
This study extends research on wrongful convictions in the United States and the factors associated with justice system errors that lead to the incarceration of innocent people.... -
Outcomes of DNA "Cold Hits": Social Science Research in Forensic Science, United States, 2000-2013
Through case studies in two sites, this project provides an in-depth view of the relationship between cases, DNA database hits and persons that contribute to those hits... -
Improving School Safety in the District of Columbia: Evaluating the Safe School Certification Program, 2016-2020
From 2016 through 2020, Child Trends, in partnership with the D.C. Office of Human Rights and the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education, and with funding from the... -
Evaluation of In-Prison Programming for Incarcerated Women: Addressing Trauma and Prior Victimization, United States, 2017-2020
The Urban Institute, in collaboration with the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA), the National Center on Victims of Crime (NCVC), and the Center for Effective Public Policy... -
Gangs on the Street, Gangs in Prison: Their Nature, Interrelationship, Control, and Re-Entry, Texas, 2016-2018
This study includes 802 interviews that were conducted in two Texas prisons with inmates who were within a week of release. 532 of these individuals were re-interviewed within... -
"Gotta Make Your Own Heaven": Guns, Safety, and the Edge of Adulthood in New York City, 2018-2019
This project investigated the experiences of New York City youth ages 16-24 who were at high risk for gun violence (e.g., carried a gun, been shot or shot at). Youth... -
The Impacts of Restrictive Housing on Inmate Behavior, Mental Health, and Recidivism, and Prison Systems and Personnel, Florida, 2007-2020
In partnership with the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC), this study a) collected prison administrative data to create person-level cohort-analysis files of inmates... -
Effective Methods to Assess Exposure to Violence and Victimization Among American Indian and Alaska Native Youth: The Tribal Youth Victimization Study (TYVS), United States, 2019
The purpose of the Tribal Youth Victimization Study (TYVS) was to develop and test survey research methods to assess American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) youth exposure... -
An Examination of the Link Between Gang Involvement and Victimization Among Youth in Residential Placement, United States, 2003
This study was a secondary analysis of Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) 2003 [United States] ICPSR 34304. In recent years, considerable empirical and theoretical... -
Understanding the Causes of School Violence Using Open Source Data, United States, 1990-2016
This study provides an evidence-based understanding on etiological issues related to school shootings and rampage shootings. It created a national, open-source database that... -
Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crimes in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2005-2019
The goal of this study is to enhance public safety and community well-being through effective identification, investigation, and prosecution of anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in Miami....