Portland [Oregon] Domestic Violence Experiment, 1996-1997 / Annette Jolin, Robert Fountain, William Feyerherm, Sharon Friedman.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Jolin, Annette.

Fountain, Robert.

Feyerherm, William.

Friedman, Sharon.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 3353.

ICPSR ; 3353

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2006-07-24.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

As part of its organization-wide transition to community policing in 1989, the Portland Police Bureau, in collaboration with the Family Violence Intervention Steering Committee of Multnomah County, developed a plan to reduce domestic violence in Portland. The creation of a special police unit to focus exclusively on misdemeanor domestic crimes was the centerpiece of the plan. This police unit, the Domestic Violence Reduction Unit (DVRU), had two goals: to increase the sanctions for batterers and to empower victims. This study was designed to determine whether DVRU strategies led to reductions in domestic violence. Data were collected from official records on batterers (Parts 1-10), and from surveys on victims (Parts 11-12). Part 1 (Police Recorded Study Case Data) provides information on police custody reports. Part 2 (Batterer Arrest History Data) describes the arrest history during a five-year period prior to each batterer's study case arrest date. Part 3 (Charges Data for Study Case Arrests) contains charges filed by the prosecutor's office in conjunction with study case arrests. Part 4 (Jail Data) reports booking charges and jail information. Part 5 (Court Data) contains sentencing information for those offenders who had either entered a guilty plea or had been found guilty of the charges stemming from the study case arrest. Data in Part 6 (Restraining Order Data) document the existence of restraining orders, before and/or after the study case arrest date. Part 7 (Diversion Program Data) includes deferred sentencing program information for study cases. Variables in Parts 1-7 provide information on number of batterer's arrests for domestic violence and non-domestic violence crimes in the past five years, charge and disposition of the study case, booking charges, number of hours offender spent in jail, type of release, type of sentence, if restraining order was file... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03353

Contents:

Part 1: Police Recorded Study Case Data; Part 2: Batterer Arrest History Data; Part 3: Charges Data For Study Case Arrests; Part 4: Jail Data; Part 5: Court Data; Part 6: Restraining Order Data; Part 7: Diversion Program Data; Part 8: Domestic Violence Reduction Unit Treatment Data; Part 9: Police Recorded Recidivism Data; Part 10: Police Recorded Revictimization and Reoffending Data; Part 11: Wave 1 Victim Interview Data; Part 12: Wave 2 Victim Interview Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

OCLC:

61154150

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