{"@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": "This study was undertaken to measure the criminal behavior\r\n of gangs, including their involvement in delinquent behavior such as\r\n drug use and drug trafficking activities, and to compare gang behavior\r\n with that of youth who were at risk, but who had not yet become active\r\n in gangs. The project assessed the role that gangs play in the lives\r\n of youth whose living conditions are otherwise comparable. In order to\r\n study the criminal behavior of gangs, investigators sought to\r\n interview 50 gang members and 50 non-gang, at-risk youth at two sites\r\n in Colorado and one site in Florida. A large portion of the interview\r\n questions asked in both the gang member interview and the at-risk\r\n youth interview were parallel. The following variables appear in both\r\n the gang member and at-risk youth files (Parts 1 and 2 respectively)\r\n created for this data collection: gang popularity variables\r\n (respondents' perceptions of the positive and negative attributes of a\r\n gang, and why gangs endure over time), drug involvement variables\r\n (whether respondents or fellow members/friends sold various types of\r\n drugs, why selling drugs increases a person's \"juice\", the drug source\r\n organization, and where they traveled to get the drugs), criminal\r\n history variables (the reasons why respondents believed they were able\r\n to get away with crimes, their first arrest age, and their most\r\n serious arrest charge), personal activity variables (whether\r\n respondents or fellow members/friends participated in dances, sporting\r\n events, fighting, drug use or selling, shoplifting, assaulting people,\r\n or burglarizing homes), variables concerning the future (whether\r\n respondents would join a gang again/join a gang today, why some gangs\r\n survive and others don't, and how respondents see their future), and\r\n demographic variables (respondents' age, sex, race, city,\r\n neighborhood, school, school status, type of work, marital status, and\r\n relationship with parent(s)). In addition, Part 1, the Gang Member\r\n Data, contains gang status variables (gang symbols, gang nickname,\r\n gang turf, and how members define a gang) and gang membership\r\n variables (roles of the respondents within the gang, why members join\r\n a gang, what the most important gang rule is, and what happens to\r\n those who refuse the gang). Part 2, At-Risk Youth Data, contains\r\n additional variables on gang contact (the names of gangs who had\r\n approached the respondents, methods used to try to get the youths to\r\n join, how the youths refused the gang, and what happened as a result\r\n of refusing) and prevention (how at-risk youth would advise a young\r\n person to react if approached by a gang, and what the youths felt was\r\nthe best way to prepare children to deal with gangs).", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02626.v1", "title": "Criminal Behavior of Gangs in Aurora and Denver, Colorado, and Broward County, Florida:  1993-1994"}], "identifier": "3713", "issued": "2000-04-18T00:00:00", "keyword": ["criminal histories", "criminality", "drug abuse", "drug traffic", "gang members", "gangs", "living conditions", "youths at risk"], "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": "Criminal Behavior of Gangs in Aurora and Denver, Colorado, and Broward County, Florida:  1993-1994"}