{"@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 survey of prosecutors was undertaken to describe\r\ncurrent practice and identify \"promising practices\" with respect to\r\ncases involving domestic violence and child victims or witnesses. It\r\nsought to answer the following questions: (1) What are the challenges\r\nfacing prosecutors when children are exposed to domestic violence? (2)\r\nHow are new laws regarding domestic violence committed in the presence of\r\nchildren, now operating in a small number of states, affecting\r\npractice? (3) What can prosecutors do to help battered women and their\r\nchildren? To gather data on these topics, the researchers conducted a\r\nnational telephone survey of prosecutors. Questions asked include case\r\nassignment, jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office, caseload,\r\nprotocol for coordinating cases, asking about domestic violence when\r\ninvestigating child abuse cases, asking about children when\r\ninvestigating domestic violence cases, and how the respondent found\r\nout when a child abuse case involved domestic violence or when a\r\ndomestic violence case involved children. Other variables cover\r\nwhether police routinely checked for prior Child Protective Services\r\n(CPS) reports, if these cases were heard by the same judge, in the\r\nsame court, and were handled by the same prosecutor, if there were\r\nlaws identifying exposure to domestic violence as child abuse, if\r\nthere were laws applying or enhancing criminal penalties when children\r\nwere exposed to domestic violence, if the state legislature was\r\nconsidering any such action, if prosecutors were using other avenues\r\nto enhance penalties, if there was pertinent caselaw, and if the\r\nrespondent's office had a no-drop policy for domestic violence\r\ncases. Additional items focus on whether the presence of children\r\ninfluenced decisions to prosecute, if the office would report or\r\nprosecute a battered woman who abused her children, or failed to\r\nprotect her children from abuse or from exposure to domestic violence,\r\nhow often the office prosecuted such women, if there was a batterers'\r\ntreatment program in the community, how often batterers were sentenced\r\nto attend the treatment program, if there were programs to which the\r\nrespondent could refer battered mothers and children, what types of\r\nprograms were operating, and if prosecutors had received training on\r\ndomestic violence issues.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03103.v1", "title": "Survey of Prosecutors' Views on Children and Domestic Violence in the United States, 1999  "}], "identifier": "3245", "issued": "2001-06-29T00:00:00", "keyword": ["battered women", "child abuse", "children", "court cases", "domestic violence", "family violence", "policies and procedures", "prosecuting attorneys", "treatment programs"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2005-11-04T00:00:00", "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": "Survey of Prosecutors' Views on Children and Domestic Violence in the United States, 1999  "}