{"@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 was conducted by the Center for Urban Affairs\r\nand Policy Research at Northwestern University to gather information\r\nfor two projects that analyzed the impact of crime on the lives of\r\ncity dwellers. These projects were the Reactions to Crime (RTC)\r\nProject, which was supported by the United States Department of\r\nJustice's National Institute of Justice as part of its Research\r\nAgreements Program, and the Rape Project, supported by the National\r\nCenter for the Prevention and Control of Rape, a subdivision of the\r\nNational Institute of Mental Health. Both investigations were\r\nconcerned with individual behavior and collective reactions to\r\ncrime. The Rape Project was specifically concerned with sexual assault\r\nand its consequences for the lives of women. The three cities selected\r\nfor study were Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. A total of\r\nten neighborhoods were chosen from these cities along a number of\r\ndimensions -- ethnicity, class, crime, and levels of organizational\r\nactivity. In addition, a small city-wide sample was drawn from each\r\ncity. Reactions to crime topics covered how individuals band together\r\nto deal with crime problems, individual responses to crime such as\r\nproperty marking or the installation of locks and bars, and the impact\r\nof fear of crime on day-to-day behavior -- for example, shopping and\r\nrecreational patterns. Respondents were asked several questions that\r\ncalled for self-reports of behavior, including events and conditions\r\nin their home areas, their relationship to their neighbors, who they\r\nknew and visited around their homes, and what they watched on TV and\r\nread in the newspapers. Also included were a number of questions\r\nmeasuring respondents' perceptions of the extent of crime in their\r\ncommunities, whether they knew someone who had been a victim, and what\r\nthey had done to reduce their own chances of being victimized.\r\nQuestions on sexual assault/rape included whether the respondent\r\nthought this was a neighborhood problem, if the number of rapes in the\r\nneighborhood were increasing or decreasing, how many women they\r\nthought had been sexually assaulted or raped in the neighborhood in\r\nthe previous year, and how they felt about various rape prevention\r\nmeasures, such as increasing home security, women not going out alone\r\nat night, women dressing more modestly, learning self-defense\r\ntechniques, carrying weapons, increasing men's respect of women, and\r\nnewspapers publishing the names of known rapists. Female respondents\r\nwere asked whether they thought it likely that they would be sexually\r\nassaulted in the next year, how much they feared sexual assault when\r\ngoing out alone after dark in the neighborhood, whether they knew a\r\nsexual assault victim, whether they had reported any sexual assaults\r\nto police, and where and when sexual assaults took place that they\r\nwere aware of. Demographic information collected on respondents\r\nincludes age, race, ethnicity, education, occupation, income, and\r\nwhether the respondent owned or rented their home.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08162.v1", "title": "Reactions to Crime Project, 1977 [Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco]: Survey on Fear of Crime and Citizen Behavior"}], "identifier": "3728", "issued": "1984-07-13T00:00:00", "keyword": ["assault", "cities", "crime", "crime prevention", "mass media", "newspapers", "rape", "recreational activities", "shopping behavior", "social attitudes"], "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": "Reactions to Crime Project, 1977 [Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco]: Survey on Fear of Crime and Citizen Behavior"}