{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "restricted public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "A separate Criminal Domestic Violence Court (CDVC) was\r\nestablished in Lexington County, South Carolina, in November 1999, to\r\nhold perpetrators of domestic violence accountable through increasing\r\nfines and jail time and to place a strong emphasis on mandatory\r\nbatterer treatment programs. The CDVC was a specialized court that\r\ncombined the efforts of law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, mental\r\nhealth professionals, and victim advocates to improve the safety of\r\ndomestic violence victims and hold offenders accountable. The\r\nresearchers undertook to evaluate and measure the extent to which the\r\nCDVC was successful in implementing its goals. For the process\r\nevaluation, interviews were conducted in 2002 with 50 victims and 50\r\ndefendants to examine their overall level of satisfaction with the\r\ncourt process, their perceptions of procedural justice, and their\r\nrecommendations for improving the CDVC process. Interviews were\r\nconducted in person using structured questions immediately after a\r\ncase was heard. The outcome evaluation consisted of two methods of\r\ndata collection. A time series intervention analysis examined the\r\nmonthly frequency of criminal domestic violence for the years 1997\r\nthrough 2001. Criminal domestic violence cases were compared for the\r\n34 months before the establishment of the CDVC (January 1997 to\r\nOctober 1999) and the first 26 months following its implementation\r\n(November 1999 to December 2001). Additionally, in an effort to\r\nexamine the impact of the Lexington County Criminal Domestic Violence\r\nCourt on individual case outcomes, a recidivism analysis was conducted\r\non a random sample of 400 criminal domestic violence cases. Of these\r\ncases, 200 were control cases drawn from the Lexington County\r\nSheriff's Department's arrest database for the period January 1997 to\r\nJune 1999, and 200 were treatment cases comprised of domestic violence\r\narrest cases that occurred between December 1999 and December 2000 and\r\nprocessed through CDVC. Variables in Part 1 (Victim Interview Data)\r\nand Part 2 (Defendant Interview Data) included responses to structured\r\ninterview questions about the victims' and offenders' perceptions of\r\nvarious aspects of the court process, whether they felt treated with\r\ndignity and respect, and their overall impression of the CDVC response\r\nto domestic violence. Variables in Part 3 (Monthly Arrest Data)\r\ninclude court period, month, and frequency of monthly domestic\r\nviolence arrests, monthly simple assault arrests, and monthly\r\naggravated assault arrests. Variables in Part 4 (Recidivism Data)\r\ninclude race, age, and gender of offender, employment status, booking\r\ndate, days in jail prior to trial, number of charges pending, number\r\nof prior domestic violence offenses, date of first re-arrest,\r\nrecidivism within first year and a half, days free of arrest, if\r\ndefendant was diverted to pretrial intervention, and the amount of the\r\nfine.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04045.v1", "title": "Evaluation of the Lexington County, South Carolina, Domestic Violence Court, 1997-2002"}], "identifier": "2787", "issued": "2005-03-04T00:00:00", "keyword": ["domestic violence", "offenders", "outcome evaluation", "process evaluation", "recidivism", "victim safety"], "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}}, "rights": "These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.", "title": "Evaluation of the Lexington County, South Carolina, Domestic Violence Court, 1997-2002"}