{"@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": "The Quincy, Massachusetts, District Court initiated an\r\n aggressive, pro-intervention strategy for dealing with domestic\r\n violence cases in 1986. This study was funded to examine the workings\r\n of this court and its impact on the lives of victims. The four main\r\n goals of the research were: (1) to describe the workings of the\r\n primary components of this model jurisdiction in its response to\r\n domestic violence, specifically (a) what the police actually did when\r\n called to a domestic violence incident, (b) decisions made by the\r\n prosecutor's office and the court in their handling of these\r\n incidents, (c) how many victims talked to a victim advocate, and (d)\r\n how many offenders received batterer treatment and/or were\r\n incarcerated, (2) to describe the types of incidents, victims, and\r\n offenders seen in a full enforcement jurisdiction to determine if the\r\n types of cases coming to attention in such a setting looked similar to\r\n cases reported in studies from other jurisdictions, (3) to interview\r\n victims to hear directly about their experiences with a model court,\r\n and (4) to examine how well this model jurisdiction worked in\r\n preventing revictimization. Data used in this study were based on\r\n domestic violence cases that resulted in an arrest and arraignment\r\n before the Quincy District Court (QDC) during a seven-month study\r\n period. Six types of data were collected for this study: (1) The\r\n offender's criminal history prior to the study and for one year\r\n subsequent to the study incident were provided by the QDC's Department\r\n of Probation from the Massachusetts Criminal Records System Board. (2)\r\n Civil restraining order data were provided by the Department of\r\n Probation from a statewide registry of civil restraining orders. (3)\r\n Data on prosecutorial charges for up to three domestic\r\n violence-related charges were provided by the Department of\r\n Probation. (4) Data on defendants who attended batterer treatment\r\n programs were provided by directors of two such programs that served\r\n the QDC. (5) Police incident reports from the seven departments served\r\n by the QDC were used to measure the officer's perspective and actions\r\n taken relating to each incident, what the call for service involved,\r\n characteristics of the incident, socio-demographics of the\r\n participants, their narrative descriptions of the incident, and their\r\n stated response. (6) Interviews with victims were conducted one year\r\n after the occurrence of the study incident. Variables from\r\n administrative records include date and location of incident, number\r\n of suspects, age and race of victims and offenders, use of weapons,\r\n injuries, witnesses, whether there was an existing restraining order\r\n and its characteristics, charges filed by police, number and gender of\r\n police officers responding to the incident, victim's state at the time\r\n of the incident, offender's criminal history, and whether the offender\r\n participated in batterer treatment. The victim survey collected data\r\n on the victim's education and employment status, current living\r\n arrangement, relationship with offender, how the victim responded to\r\n the incident, how afraid the victim was, victim's opinions of police\r\n and the prosecutor, victim's sense of control, satisfaction with the\r\n court, victim's past violent relationships and child sexual abuse,\r\n victim's opinions on what the criminal justice system could do to stop\r\nabuse, and whether the victim obtained a restraining order.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03076.v1", "title": "Response to Domestic Violence in the Quincy, Massachusetts, District Court, 1995-1997  "}], "identifier": "2973", "issued": "2001-08-06T00:00:00", "keyword": ["case processing", "court cases", "courts", "domestic violence", "imprisonment", "offenders", "police response", "treatment programs", "victims"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2001-08-06T00:00:00", "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": "Response to Domestic Violence in the Quincy, Massachusetts, District Court, 1995-1997  "}