{"@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": "Violence committed by and against juveniles was the focus\r\n of this study. Two groups were examined: incarcerated (criminally\r\n active) juveniles and students in inner-city high schools, since these\r\n youths are popularly considered to engage in and experience violence\r\n (especially gun-related violence), to belong to urban street gangs,\r\n and to participate in the drug trafficking thought to lead to\r\n excessive gun violence. Self-administered questionnaires were\r\n completed by 835 male inmates in six correctional facilities and 1,663\r\n male and female students from ten inner-city high schools in\r\n California, Illinois, Louisiana, and New Jersey. Data collection took\r\n place during January through April of 1991. To maximize response\r\n rates, inducements of five dollars were offered to the inmates,\r\n Spanish-language versions of the questionnaire were provided to\r\n inmates who preferred them, and personal interviews were conducted\r\n with inmates whose reading skills were less than sufficient to\r\n complete the questionnaire on their own. In four schools, principals\r\n permitted the inducements to be offered to students to participate in\r\n the study. As with the inmate survey, a Spanish-language version of\r\n the questionnaire was provided to students who preferred it. The\r\n questionnaires covered roughly the same core topics for both inmates\r\n and students. Items included questions on sociodemographic\r\n characteristics, school experiences, gun ownership, gun use for\r\n several types of firearms, gun acquisition patterns, gun-carrying\r\n habits, use of other weapons, gang membership and gang activities,\r\n self-reported criminal histories, victimization patterns, drug use,\r\n alcohol use, and attitudes concerning guns, crime, and violence. In\r\n both questionnaires, the majority of the items covered firearms\r\n knowledge, acquisition, and use. The remaining items in the inmate\r\n survey primarily covered criminal behavior and, secondarily,\r\n victimization histories. In the student survey, these priorities were\r\nreversed.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06484.v1", "title": "Firearms, Violence, and Youth in California, Illinois, Louisiana, and New Jersey, 1991"}], "identifier": "3662", "issued": "1996-01-22T00:00:00", "keyword": ["drug traffic", "firearms", "gangs", "gun ownership", "gun use", "high school students", "inner city", "juvenile inmates", "violence", "youths"], "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": "Firearms, Violence, and Youth in California, Illinois, Louisiana, and New Jersey, 1991"}