Evaluation of Arizona Pretrial Services Drug Testing Programs, 1987-1989 (ICPSR 9807)

Published: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Chester L. Britt; Michael R. Gottfredson; John S. Goldkamp

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09807.v1

Version V1

Summary

The purpose of this data collection was to examine the relationship between drug use and pretrial misconduct in Pima and Maricopa counties in Arizona. Data assess the effectiveness of Arizona pretrial services, which were designed to monitor those defendants who tested positive for selected drugs. The collection includes variables for drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, previous criminal history, results of urinalysis testing, pretrial misconduct, and drug monitoring. Demographic information includes defendant's sex, ethnicity, age, marital status, employment, and last grade completed.

Citation

Britt, Chester L., Gottfredson, Michael R., and Goldkamp, John S. Evaluation of Arizona Pretrial Services Drug Testing Programs, 1987-1989. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09807.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (88-IJ-CX-K003)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Time Period(s)

1987 -- 1989

Sample

Three different sample groups were selected for each of the two counties. For Pima County, one sample group consisted of individuals who were booked on felony charges, agreed to a drug test, and were released prior to their trials. A second group was a random sample of defendants who were on pretrial supervised releases with or without drug testing. A third sample group consisted of those arrested on felony charges who were granted release. For Maricopa County, one sample group consisted of felony defendants who were released prior to trial and agreed to a drug test. Another group comprised felons who were released prior to their trials and were either randomly assigned to the monitoring program or were on their own recognizance. Individuals in the third sample group were on pretrial release and were randomly assigned to the drug monitoring program or to normal treatment without drug monitoring.

Universe

Pretrial felony populations of Pima and Maricopa counties.

Data Source

official police records and personal interviews

Data Type(s)

event/transaction data

Original Release Date

1992-10-31

Version Date

2006-01-12

Version History

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 7 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1992-10-31 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.

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.

  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.