{"@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 information gathered to\r\nevaluate certain activities of a number of organizations dedicated to\r\nthe advancement of law-related education (LRE) in elementary, junior\r\nhigh, and senior high schools. The organizations whose activities were\r\nevaluated were (1) the Constitution Rights Foundation, (2) Law in a\r\nFree Society, (3) the National Street Law Institute, (4) the American\r\nBar Association's Special Committee on Youth Education for\r\nCitizenship, (5) the Children's Legal Rights Information and Training\r\nProgram, and (6) the Phi Alpha Delta Committee for Juvenile\r\nJustice. The evaluation research dealt primarily with two types of\r\nissues: (1) the degree of increase in awareness of and receptivity\r\ntoward LRE among the nation's educators, juvenile justice, and other\r\nrelated professionals, as well as the degree of institutionalization\r\nof LRE in certain targeted states (i.e., California, Michigan, and\r\nNorth Carolina), and (2) the degree to which LRE could produce changes\r\nin students' knowledge of and attitudes about the law, and reduce\r\njuvenile delinquency (measured both by self-reported delinquency rates\r\nand by attitudes previously shown to be correlated with delinquent\r\nbehavior). In 1981 (Part 1) and again in 1982 (Part 2), questionnaires\r\nwere mailed to a sample of professionals in state educational\r\norganizations as well as to elementary and secondary school\r\nprincipals, juvenile justice specialists, juvenile and family court\r\njudges, police chiefs, and law school deans. Respondents were asked\r\nwhether they had heard of the various projects, what they thought of\r\nLRE in terms of its impact on students and usefulness in the\r\ncurriculum, whether LRE should be required, what type of publicity had\r\ncontributed to their awareness of LRE, and the degree of involvement\r\nthey would be willing to have in promoting or developing LRE\r\nprograms. In a second component of the study, primary and secondary\r\nschool students were selected for an impact evaluation of the LRE\r\nactivities run by the six organizations under evaluation.\r\nQuestionnaires were administered to students during academic years\r\n1982-1983 (Part 3) and 1983-1984 (Part 4), before and after\r\nparticipating in LRE courses offered by the programs under\r\nevaluation. Control students (not taking LRE courses) were also used\r\nfor the comparisons. The questionnaires tested the knowledge,\r\nattitudes (measuring such factors as isolation from school, delinquent\r\npeer influence, negative labeling, and attitudes toward violence), and\r\nself-reported delinquency of school children. Demographic information\r\ncollected about the student respondents includes sex, age, race, grade\r\nin school, and grade-point average.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08406.v1", "title": "Law-Related Education Evaluation Project [United States], 1979-1984"}], "identifier": "3929", "issued": "1985-10-09T00:00:00", "keyword": ["education", "educational assessment", "educational programs", "elementary school students", "high school students", "junior high school students", "juvenile justice", "law", "outreach programs", "peer influence", "program evaluation", "student attitudes", "student behavior"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-01-18T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:000"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "Law-Related Education Evaluation Project [United States], 1979-1984"}