Data on women and crime / from the Data Resources Program, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

National Institute of Justice (U.S.). Data Resources Program.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) (CD-ROM) ; CD0033.

ICPSR (Series) ; 2972.

ICPSR ; CD0030

ICPSR ; 2599

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal statistics--United States--Databases.

Criminal statistics.

Female offenders--United States--Statistics--Databases.

Female offenders.

Women--Crimes against--United States--Statistics--Databases.

Women.

Women--Violence against--United States--Statistics--Databases.

Women--Crimes against.

Women--Violence against.

United States.

Genre:

Databases.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 computer optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's guide (27 pages ; 12 cm).

4 3/4 in.

monochrome

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, [2000]

System Details:

System requirements: Computer that can read ISO 9660 formatted text (includes MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh Operating System 6.08 and PC emulation software, and System 7.0 or higher); Microsoft CD-ROM extension to MS-DOS (version 2.0 or above); sufficient disk space to manipulate data files up to 63.5 MB; CD-ROM drive capable of reading 650 MB recommended.

data file

Summary:

Contains numeric data in ASCII format, SAS and SPSS data definition statements, and supporting text and codebooks in PDF format for 55 studies related to women and crime. Covers topics such as classic family violence studies, court responses to violence against women, female offenders, police responses to domestic violence, prosecution of domestic violence, sex offenders, victimization (including rape and stalking), and victim advocacy.

Contents:

Public support for rehabilitation in Ohio, 1996 / Brandon K. Applegate (D2543)

Monitoring the future: a continuing study of American youth (12th-grade survey), 1998 / Jerald G. Bachman, Lloyd D. Johnston, and Patrick M. O'Malley (D2751)

Impact of constitutional and statutory protection on crime victims' rights in four states in the United States, 1995 / David Beatty, Susan Smith Howley, and Dean Kilpatrick (D2467)

Evaluating alternative police response to spouse assault in Colorado Springs: an enhanced replication of the Minneapolis experiment, 1987-1989 / Howard Black, Richard Berk, James Lily, Robert Owenbey, and Giannina Rikoski (D9982)

Intra- and intergenerational aspects of serious domestic violence and alcohol and drug abuse in Buffalo, 1987 / Howard T. Blane, Brenda A. Miller, and Kenneth E. Leonard (D9984)

Chicago women's health risk study, 1995-1998 / Carolyn Rebecca Block (D3002)

Homicides in Chicago, 1965-1995 / Carolyn Rebecca Block, Richard L. Block, and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (D6399)

Evaluation of victim advocacy services funded by the violence against women act in urban Ohio, 1998-1999 / Carol Bohmer, Denise E. Bronson, Helen Hartnett, Jennifer Brandt, and Kristen S. Kania (D2992)

Boston Police Department domestic violence research project, 1993-1994 / Boston Police Department (D6483)

Experience and needs of formerly intimate stalking victims in.

Notes:

Title from disc label.

"Issued November 2000."

"The datasets, codebooks, SAS and SPSS data definition statements, and other related materials on this CD-ROM can also be accessed from the Web site of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at the URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd"--Page 2 of guide.

Includes Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading text in PDF format. This software runs on platforms such as Macintosh Operating System 7.1 or higher, Windows 3.1 or 95, and Sun SPARC (Solaris).

OCLC:

45558683

Access Restriction:

ICPSR policy prohibits the redistribution or sale of data contained on ICPSR media to other users, except as permitted to Official Representatives of ICPSR member institutions or by written agreement with ICPSR.