Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault: Minneapolis, 1981-1982 (ICPSR 8250)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Richard A. Berk; Lawrence W. Sherman

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08250.v2

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Summary

This data collection contains information on 330 incidents of domestic violence in Minneapolis. Part 1, Police Data, contains data from the initial police reports filled out after each incident. Parts 2-5 are based on interviews that were conducted with all parties to the domestic assaults. Information for Part 2, Initial Data, was gathered from the victims after the incidents. Part 3, Follow-Up Data, consists of data from follow-up interviews with the victims and with relatives and acquaintances of both victims and suspects. There could be up to 12 contacts per case. Suspect interviews are the source for Part 4, Suspect Data. An experimental section, Part 5, Repeat Data, contains information on repeat incidents of domestic assault from interviews with victims. Parts 2-5 include items such as socioeconomic and demographic data describing the suspect and the victim, relationship (husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover, divorced, separated), nature of the argument that spurred the assault, presence or absence of physical violence, and the nature and extent of police contact in the incident. The collection also includes police records, which are the basis for Parts 6-9. These files record the date of the crime, ethnicity of the participants, presence or absence of alcohol or drugs and weapons, and whether a police assault occurred.

Citation

Berk, Richard A., and Sherman, Lawrence W. Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault: Minneapolis, 1981-1982. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08250.v2

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (80-IJ-CX-0042)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1981 -- 1982

Date of Collection

1981-03 -- 1982-09
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Sample

All calls between March 17, 1981, and August 1, 1982, to the Minneapolis police concerning misdemeanant domestic violence incidents where both parties were present were included. Cases involving life-threatening or severe injury were excluded.

Universe

Domestic assault incidents in Minneapolis.

Data Source

personal interviews, police records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-11-14

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Berk, Richard A., and Lawrence W. Sherman. Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault: Minneapolis, 1981-1982. ICPSR08250-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08250.v2

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 10 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.

1984-11-14 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:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.