{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "This data collection contains the results of a study\r\n created in response to New York State's 1973 revision of its criminal\r\n laws relating to drug use. The Association of the Bar of the City of\r\n New York and the Drug Abuse Council jointly organized a joint\r\n committee and a research project to collect data, in a systematic\r\n fashion, (1) to ascertain the repercussions of the drug law revision,\r\n (2) to analyze, to the degree possible, why the law was revised, and\r\n (3) to identify any general principles or specific lessons that could\r\n be derived from the New York experience that could be helpful to other\r\n states as they dealt with the problem of illegal drug use and related\r\n crime. This data collection contains five files from the study. Part 1\r\n contains information gathered in a survey investigating the effects of\r\n the 1973 predicate felony provisions on crime committed by repeat\r\n offenders. Data include sex, age at first arrest, county and year of\r\n sampled felony conviction, subsequent arrests up to December 1976,\r\n time between arrests, time incarcerated between arrests, and number\r\n and type of short-span arrests and incarcerations. Part 2 contains\r\n data gathered in a survey meant to estimate the number and proportion\r\n of felony crimes attributable to narcotics users in Manhattan. Case\r\n records for male defendants, aged 16 and older, who were arraigned on\r\n at least one felony charge in Manhattan's Criminal Court, in 1972 and\r\n 1975, were sampled. Data include original and reduced charges and\r\n penal code numbers, and indicators of first, second, third, and fourth\r\n drug status. Part 3 contains data gathered in a survey designed to\r\n estimate the number and proportion of felony crimes attributable to\r\n narcotics users in Manhattan. Case records for male defendants, aged\r\n 16 and older, who were arraigned on at least one felony charge in\r\n Manhattan's Criminal Court or Manhattan's Supreme Court, were sampled\r\n from 1971 through 1975. Eighty percent of the sample was drawn from\r\n the Criminal Court while the remaining 20 percent was taken from the\r\n Supreme Court. Data include date of arraignment, age, number of\r\n charges, penal code numbers for first six charges, bail information\r\n (e.g., if it was set, amount, and date bail made), disposition and\r\n sentence, indications of first through fourth drug status, first\r\n through third drug of abuse, and treatment status of defendant. Part 4\r\n contains data gathered in a survey that determined the extent of\r\n knowledge of the 1973 drug law among ex-drug users in drug treatment\r\n programs, and to discover any changes in their behavior in response to\r\n the new law. Interviews were administered to non-randomly selected\r\n volunteers from three modalities: residential drug-free, ambulatory\r\n methadone maintenance, and the detoxification unit of the New York\r\n City House of Detention for Men. Data include sources of knowledge of\r\n drug laws (e.g., from media, subway posters, police, friends, dealers,\r\n and treatment programs), average length of sentence for various drug\r\n convictions, maximum sentence for such crimes, the pre-1974 sentence\r\n for such crimes, type of plea bargaining done, and respondent's\r\n opinion of the effects of the new law on police activity, the street,\r\n conviction rates, and drug use. Part 5 contains data from a survey\r\n that estimated the number and proportion of felony crimes attributable\r\n to narcotics users in Manhattan. Detained males aged 16 and older in\r\n Manhattan pre-trial detention centers who faced at least one current\r\n felony charge were sampled. Data include date of admission and\r\n discharge, drug status and charges, penal code numbers for first\r\n through sixth charge, bail information, and drug status and\r\ntreatment.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07656.v1", "title": "New York Drug Law Evaluation Project, 1973"}], "identifier": "3374", "issued": "1984-03-18T00:00:00", "keyword": ["New York (state)", "New York City", "United States", "convictions (law)", "courts", "crime", "crime control", "crime prevention", "criminal justice system", "drug law enforcement", "drug law offenses", "drug laws", "drug related crimes", "drug use", "evaluation", "legisla", "legislation"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "1992-02-16T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "New York Drug Law Evaluation Project, 1973"}