{"@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": "The purpose of this study was to gather evidence on the\r\nrelationship between discipline and the control of victimization in\r\nschools and to investigate the effectiveness of humanistic versus\r\ncoercive disciplinary measures. Survey data were obtained from students, teachers,\r\nand principals in each of the 44 junior and senior high schools in a\r\ncounty in Ohio that agreed to participate in the study. The data\r\nrepresent roughly a six-month time frame. Students in grades 7 through\r\n12 were anonymously surveyed in February 1994. The Student Survey (Part 1)\r\nwas randomly distributed to approximately half of the students in all\r\nclassrooms in each school. The other half of the students received a\r\ndifferent survey that focused on drug use among students (not\r\navailable with this collection). The teacher (Part 2) and principal\r\n(Part 3) surveys were completed at the same time as the student\r\nsurvey. The principal survey included both closed-ended and open-ended\r\nquestions, while all questions on the student and teacher surveys were\r\nclosed-ended, with a finite set of answers from which to choose. The\r\nthree questionnaires were designed to gather respondent demographics,\r\nperceptions about school discipline and control, information about\r\nweapons and gangs in the school, and perceptions about school crime,\r\nincluding personal victimization and responses to victimization. All\r\nthree surveys asked whether the school had a student court and, if so,\r\nwhat sanctions could be imposed by the student court for various forms\r\nof student misconduct. The student survey and teacher surveys also\r\nasked about the availability at school of various controlled\r\ndrugs. The student survey elicited information about the student's\r\nfear of crime in the school and on the way to and from school,\r\navoidance behaviors, and possession of weapons for protection. Data\r\nwere also obtained from the principals on each school's\r\nsuspension/expulsion rate, the number and type of security guards\r\nand/or devices used within the school, and other school safety\r\nmeasures. In addition to the surveys, census data were acquired for a\r\none-quarter-mile radius around each participating school's campus,\r\nproviding population demographics, educational attainment, employment\r\nstatus, marital status, income levels, and area housing\r\ninformation. Also, arrest statistics for six separate crimes (personal\r\ncrime, property crime, simple assault, disorderly conduct,\r\ndrug/alcohol offenses, and weapons offenses) for the reporting\r\ndistrict in which each school was located were obtained from local police\r\ndepartments. Finally, the quality of the immediate neighborhood was\r\nassessed by means of a \"windshield\" survey in which the researchers\r\nconducted a visual inventory of various neighborhood characteristics:\r\ntype and quality of housing in the area, types of businesses, presence\r\nof graffiti and gang graffiti, number of abandoned cars, and the\r\nnumber and perceived age of pedestrians and people loitering in the\r\narea. These contextual data are also contained in Part 3.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02587.v1", "title": "Controlling Victimization in Schools:  Effective Discipline and Control Strategies in a County in Ohio, 1994"}], "identifier": "3708", "issued": "1998-12-10T00:00:00", "keyword": ["control", "crime in schools", "drug use", "fear of crime", "gangs", "high schools", "neighborhood characteristics", "personal security", "principals", "school security", "student misconduct", "students", "teachers", "victimization", "weapons"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-03-30T00:00:00", "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": "Controlling Victimization in Schools:  Effective Discipline and Control Strategies in a County in Ohio, 1994"}