Pretrial Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring : An Evaluation in Marion County, Indiana, 1988-1989 / Michael G. Maxfield, Terry L. Baumer.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Maxfield, Michael G.

Baumer, Terry L.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9734.

ICPSR ; 9734

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic surveillance--Indiana--Marion County.

Electronic surveillance.

Home detention--Indiana--Marion County.

Home detention.

Criminal statistics--Indiana--Marion County.

Criminal statistics.

Indiana--Marion County.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

For this data collection a pretrial home detention program in Marion County, Indiana, that relied on electronic monitoring of clients was subjected to a nonexperimental evaluation. The data address whether the pretrial electronic monitoring program was effective in ensuring that clients appeared at their court hearings, whether the pretrial electronic monitoring program was effective in ensuring public safety, and the extent to which field contact officers experienced difficulties in attempting to contact clients. To gauge the success of the program, investigators compared the number of successful terminations (i.e., home detention followed by a court appearance) to the number of unsuccessful terminations (technical violations and absconding). Each client in the pretrial program was fitted with a coded wristlet that matched a base unit receptacle. A successful contact between the coded wristlet and the base unit verified the client's presence. Defendants on home detention were monitored by a field contact officer. Variables in this collection include charged offense, prior criminal history, living arrangements, employment status, number of telephone calls, summary of program violations, reason for program termination, program entry and termination dates, and disposition after program release. The unit of observation is the individual program client.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09734

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1988; and end: 1989.

OCLC:

61163509

Access Restriction:

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