Research on Lowering Violence in Schools and Communities (ReSOLV) in California, 2014-2022 (ICPSR 39028)

Version Date: Jul 28, 2025

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Principal Investigator(s):
Patricia Campie, American Institutes for Research; Anthony A. Peguero, Arizona State University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39028.v1

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ReSOLV

Summary

ReSOLV is a longitudinal mixed methods study examining the school and community contexts that contribute to the root causes and prevention of violence in urban (Hanford), large county (Los Angeles), and rural (Mendota) study sites in California. Three data files are contained for this project, one for each study site. Each file contains aggregate data at the school and community level. The data include variables about school climate; community, school, and individual readiness to adopt comprehensive school safety approaches at the school level; student and school performance measures of chronic absenteeism, test score proficiency, graduation, suspension, and expulsion; crime data from the Uniform Crime Reports; and data from the US Census to create an index of concentrated disadvantage.

Citation

Campie, Patricia, and Peguero, Anthony A. Research on Lowering Violence in Schools and Communities (ReSOLV) in California, 2014-2022. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-07-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39028.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2016-CK-BX-K001)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

School

Restrictions

Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reason for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Distributor(s)

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

2014 -- 2022
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Study Purpose

The study team sought to answer four primary research questions:

(1) How does the ecology of risk and protective factors within schools and communities influence the educational and safety outcomes of students?

(2) Is school, individual, or community readiness to mitigate risk factors for school violence associated with improved educational and safety outcomes?

(3) What are the core components of school, individual, and community readiness to mitigate risk factors for school violence?

(4) How do the associations between school, individual, and community readiness, along with school safety, and student outcomes vary over time?

Study Design

The study uses quantitative data to understand the relationship causes of violence and school and community safety outcomes. These quantitative relationships are situated in rural, urban, and large county contexts with qualitative data. Because of COVID-19, the study is split into 3 analytical time periods (1) Longitudinally from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2022, (2) Pre-COVID from August 1, 2014 though December 31, 2019, and (3) Post-COVID from January 1, 2020 through June 30, 2022.

Sample

Schools administered voluntary online surveys for the study as a part of their districtwide survey data collection. Interviews were also conducted in schools and communities as part of the study staff's fieldwork. Study participants include students, parents, staff, teachers, school and community policymakers, police, mental and behavioral health providers, youth programs, community organizing agencies, and business owners across the three study sites.

Time Method

Longitudinal

Universe

Communities and schools in rural and urban California.

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Original Release Date

2025-07-28

Version History

2025-07-28 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.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.

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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.