{"@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": "By the summer of 1998, the Vermont Department of\r\nCorrections (DOC) had completed three years of operational experience\r\nwith \"restorative justice,\" a concept that involves compensating\r\nvictims and establishing community-based reparative boards that\r\ndetermine how offenders can make amends for their crimes. The purpose\r\nof this project was to update the benchmark findings from an earlier\r\nsurvey of Vermont residents in 1994, to assess public attitudes about\r\nthe reforms and changes that had been instituted by the Vermont DOC,\r\nand to explore the possibility of expansion of responsibilities of the\r\nreparative community boards. This project involved a telephone survey\r\nof a new sample of 601 adult residents of Vermont. The interviewing\r\nwas conducted on March 15-21, 1999. Respondents were asked a series of\r\ntrend questions to update the 1994 findings. Respondents were also\r\nasked questions about two other programs: the diversion program, in\r\nwhich selected first offenders who fulfilled the terms of a\r\ncommunity-based sanction could have their records expunged, and the\r\nfurlough program, in which offenders making the transition from prison\r\nto the community were supervised for an interim period. The survey\r\nalso explored whether Vermonters would like to see the\r\nresponsibilities of the reparative boards expanded to include\r\ncommunity notification and other types of cases. Residents assessed\r\nwhether crime in general, violent crime, and illegal drug use had\r\nincreased compared to five years prior, whether more prisons should be\r\nbuilt, whether Vermont's jails and prisons were overcrowded, and\r\nwhether violent offenders were being released before completing their\r\nsentences because of overcrowding. They commented on how often\r\noffenders in four scenarios should go to prison and how often they\r\nbelieved that these offenders in fact did go to prison. Respondents\r\nrated the performance of various segments of the Vermont criminal\r\njustice system and, given 15 offense scenarios, were asked whether the\r\noffender should spend time in jail or in community service and\r\nrehabilitation. In addition, respondents were asked whether anyone in\r\ntheir household had been a victim of a crime within the last three\r\nyears and, if so, whether it was a violent crime. Demographic data\r\ninclude sex, employment, education, race/ethnicity, and age category\r\nof the respondent, and the county and region where the resident\r\nlived.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03016.v1", "title": "Attitudes Toward Crime and Punishment in Vermont:  Public Opinion About an Experiment With Restorative Justice, 1999"}], "identifier": "3820", "issued": "2001-04-12T00:00:00", "keyword": ["alternatives to institutionalization", "communities", "community service programs", "correctional facilities", "corrections management", "criminal histories", "diversion programs", "program evaluation", "public opinion", "restitution programs", "restorative justice", "victim c"], "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": "Attitudes Toward Crime and Punishment in Vermont:  Public Opinion About an Experiment With Restorative Justice, 1999"}