{"@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": "As part of its organization-wide transition to community\r\npolicing in 1989, the Portland Police Bureau, in collaboration with\r\nthe Family Violence Intervention Steering Committee of Multnomah\r\nCounty, developed a plan to reduce domestic violence in Portland. The\r\ncreation of a special police unit to focus exclusively on misdemeanor\r\ndomestic crimes was the centerpiece of the plan. This police unit, the\r\nDomestic Violence Reduction Unit (DVRU), had two goals: to increase\r\nthe sanctions for batterers and to empower victims. This study was\r\ndesigned to determine whether DVRU strategies led to reductions in\r\ndomestic violence. Data were collected from official records on\r\nbatterers (Parts 1-10), and from surveys on victims (Parts 11-12).\r\nPart 1 (Police Recorded Study Case Data) provides information on\r\npolice custody reports. Part 2 (Batterer Arrest History Data)\r\ndescribes the arrest history during a five-year period prior to each\r\nbatterer's study case arrest date. Part 3 (Charges Data for Study Case\r\nArrests) contains charges filed by the prosecutor's office in\r\nconjunction with study case arrests. Part 4 (Jail Data) reports\r\nbooking charges and jail information. Part 5 (Court Data) contains\r\nsentencing information for those offenders who had either entered a\r\nguilty plea or had been found guilty of the charges stemming from the\r\nstudy case arrest. Data in Part 6 (Restraining Order Data) document\r\nthe existence of restraining orders, before and/or after the study\r\ncase arrest date. Part 7 (Diversion Program Data) includes deferred\r\nsentencing program information for study cases. Variables in Parts 1-7\r\nprovide information on number of batterer's arrests for domestic\r\nviolence and non-domestic violence crimes in the past five years,\r\ncharge and disposition of the study case, booking charges, number of\r\nhours offender spent in jail, type of release, type of sentence, if\r\nrestraining order was filed after case arrest, if restraining order\r\nwas served or vacated, number of days offender stayed in diversion\r\nprogram, and type of diversion violation incurred. Part 8 (Domestic\r\nViolence Reduction Unit Treatment Data) contains 395 of the 404 study\r\ncases that were randomly assigned to the treatment condition.\r\nVariables describe the types of services DVRU provided, such as taking\r\nphotographs along with victim statements, providing the victim with\r\ninformation on case prosecution, restraining orders, shelters,\r\ncounseling, and an appointment with district attorney, helping the\r\nvictim get a restraining order, serving a restraining order on the\r\nbatterer, transporting the victim to a shelter, and providing the\r\nvictim with a motel voucher and emergency food supply. Part 9 (Police\r\nRecord Recidivism Data) includes police entries (incident or arrest)\r\nsix months before and six months after the study case arrest\r\ndate. Part 10 (Police Recorded Revictimization and Reoffending Data)\r\nconsists of revictimization and reoffending summary counts as well as\r\ntime-to-failure data. Most of the variables in Part 10 were derived\r\nfrom information reported in Part 9. Part 9 and Part 10 variables\r\ninclude whether the offense in each incident was related to domestic\r\nviolence, whether victimization was done by the same batterer as in\r\nthe study case arrest, type of police action against the\r\nvictimization, charges of the victimization, type of premises where\r\nthe crime was committed, whether the police report indicated that\r\nwitnesses or children were present, whether the police report\r\nmentioned victim injury, weapon used, involvement of drugs or alcohol,\r\nwhether the batterer denied abuse victim, number of days from study\r\ncases to police-recorded revictimization, and whether the recorded\r\nvictimization led to the batterer's arrest. Part 11 (Wave 1 Victim\r\nInterview Data) contains data obtained through in-person interviews\r\nwith victims shortly (1-2 weeks) after the case entered the\r\nstudy. Data in Part 12 (Wave 2 Victim Interview Data) represent\r\nvictims' responses to the second wave of interviews, conducted\r\napproximately six months after the study case victimization occurred.\r\nVariables in Part 11 and Part 12 cover the victim's experience six\r\nmonths before the study case arrest and six months after the study\r\ncase arrest. Demographic variables in both files include victim's and\r\nbatterer's race and ethnicity, employment, and income, and\r\nrelationship status between victim and batterer. Information on\r\nchildhood experiences includes whether the victim and batterer felt\r\nemotionally cared for by parents, whether the victim and batterer\r\nwitnessed violence between parents while growing up, and whether the\r\nvictim and batterer were abused as children by a family member.\r\nVariables on the batterer's abusive behaviors include whether the\r\nbatterer threatened to kill, swore at, pushed or grabbed, slapped,\r\nbeat, or forced the victim to have sex. Information on the results of\r\nthe abuse includes whether the abuse led to cuts or bruises, broken\r\nbones, burns, internal injury, or damage to eyes or ears. Information\r\nwas also collected on whether alcohol or drugs were involved in the\r\nabuse events. Variables on victims' actions after the event include\r\nwhether the victim saw a doctor, whether the victim talked to a\r\nminister, a family member, a friend, a mental health professional, or\r\na district attorney, whether the victim tried to get an arrest\r\nwarrant, went to a shelter to talk, and/or stayed at a shelter,\r\nwhether the victim asked police to intervene, tried to get a\r\nrestraining order, talked to an attorney, or undertook other actions,\r\nand whether the event led to the batterer's arrest. Variables on\r\nvictim satisfaction with the police and the DVRU include whether\r\npolice or the DVRU were able to calm things down, recommended going to\r\nthe district attorney, informed the victim of her legal rights,\r\nrecommended that the victim contact shelter or support groups,\r\ntransported the victim to a hospital, and listened to the victim,\r\nwhether police treated the victim with respect, and whether the victim\r\nwould want police or the DVRU involved in the future if needed.\r\nVariables on the victim's emotional state include whether the victim\r\nwas confident that she could keep herself safe, felt her family life\r\nwas under control, and felt she was doing all she could to get\r\nhelp. Other variables include number of children the victim had and\r\ntheir ages, and whether the children had seen violence between the\r\nvictim and batterer.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03353.v2", "title": "Portland [Oregon] Domestic Violence Experiment, 1996-1997"}], "identifier": "2855", "issued": "2002-05-21T00:00:00", "keyword": ["arrest records", "community policing", "crime prevention", "domestic violence", "family violence", "intervention", "misdemeanor offenses", "offenders", "recidivism", "restraining orders", "sentencing", "victimization", "victims"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-07-24T00:00:00", "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": "Portland [Oregon] Domestic Violence Experiment, 1996-1997"}