Criminal Justice Response to Victim Harm in the United States, 1981 (ICPSR 8249)

Principal Investigator(s): Hernon, Jolene C.; Forst, Brian

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Hernon, Jolene C., and Brian Forst. CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSE TO VICTIM HARM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1981. ICPSR ed. Conducted by Jolene C. Hernon and Brian Forst, Institute for Law and Social Research (INSLAW). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08249.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08249.v1

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This survey was funded by:

• United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (82-IJ-CX-0009)

Subject Terms:   aggravated assault, arrests, burglary, case processing, criminal justice system, homicide, perceptions, prosecution, robbery, sentencing, sexual assault, victim services, victimization, victims

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 1981

Date of Collection:  

• 1982-10--1983-02

Universe:   Population of victims and criminal justice officials in the United States.

Data Types:   survey data

Data Collection Notes:

Codebook information for the following variables is not available: Victim File V3 and V31, Police File V3, Prosecutor File V3, and Judge File V3.

Sample:   Eight sites were selected to represent regional variation in population size and types of victim services offered. The victim sample was a systematic sample selected from 1981 prosecutor files. Every tenth case up to 150 cases was taken from each site. Responses from criminal justice officials were obtained through convenience samples of police officers, prosecutors, and judges, all of whom were experienced with the five target offenses.

Data Source:

personal interviews, telephone interviews, and mailed questionnaires

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Standardized missing values.
• Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release:  1989-09-26

Version History:

• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 5 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 5 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
• 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

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