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Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges, 1801-2000 (ICPSR 6796)
Released/updated on: 2009-02-03
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1801-01-01--2000-12-31
This project orignally was undertaken to compile a definitive
database on the personal, social, economic, career, and political
attributes of judges who served on the United States Courts of Appeals from
1801 to 1994 - it has now been updated to include information through the year 2000. The database includes conventional social background
variables such as appointing president, religion, political party
affiliation, education, and prior experience. In addition, unique items are
provided: the temporal sequence of prior career experiences, the
timing of and reason for leaving the bench, gender, race and ethnicity,
position numbering analogous to the scheme used for the Supreme Court,
American Bar Association rating, and net worth (for judges who began
service on the bench after 1978). The second objective of this project
was to merge
these data with a multi-user database on United States Courts of Appeals decisions
that is headed by Donald Songer and funded by the National Science
Foundation. That database includes a unique identification number
for each judge participating in a particular decision. The combined
databases
should enable scholars to explore: (1) intra- and inter-circuit fluctuation
in the distribution of social background characteristics, (2) generational
and presidential cohort variation in these attributes, and (3) state
and partisan control of seats. The collection also facilitates the
construction of models that examine the effects of personal attributes on
decision-making, while controlling for the conditions above.
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Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States District Court Judges, 1801-2000 (ICPSR 4553)
Released/updated on: 2009-02-03
Time period: 1801-01-01--2000-12-31
This project was undertaken to compile a definitive database on the personal, social, economic, career, and political attributes of judges who served on the United States District Courts from 1801 to 2000. The database includes conventional social background variables such as the name of the appointing president, the judge's religion, political party affiliation, education, and prior experience. In addition, unique items are provided: the temporal sequence of prior career experiences, the timing of and reason for leaving the bench, gender, race and ethnicity, position numbering analogous to the scheme used for the Supreme Court, American Bar Association rating, and net worth (for judges who began service on the bench after 1978). The second objective of this project was to merge these data with a multi-user database on United States District Court decisions. The database is headed by Donald Songer and funded by the National Science Foundation. It includes a unique identification number for each judge participating in a particular decision. The combined databases should enable scholars to explore: (1) intra- and inter-circuit fluctuation in the distribution of social background characteristics, (2) generational and presidential cohort variation in these attributes, and (3) state and partisan control of seats. The collection also facilitates the construction of models that examine the effects of personal attributes on decision making, while controlling for the conditions above. See also MULTI-USER DATABASE ON THE ATTRIBUTES OF UNITED STATES APPEALS COURT JUDGES, 1801-1994 (ICPSR 6796).
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Religiousness and Post-Release Community Adjustment in the United States, 1990-1998 (ICPSR 3022)
Released/updated on: 2005-11-04
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1990-01-01--1998-12-31
This study assessed the effects of male inmate religiosity on post-release community adjustment and investigated the circumstances under which these effects were most likely to take place. The researcher carried out this study by adding Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history information to an existing database (Clear et al.) that studied the relationship between an inmate's religiousness and his adjustment to the correctional setting. Four types of information were used in this study. The first three types were obtained by the original research team and included an inmate values and religiousness instrument, a pre-release questionnaire, and a three-month post-release follow-up phone survey. The fourth type of information, official criminal history reports, was later added to the original dataset by the principal investigator for this study. The prisoner values survey collected information on what the respondent would do if a friend sold drugs from the cell or if inmates of his race attacked others. Respondents were also asked if they thought God was revealed in the scriptures, if they shared their faith with others, and if they took active part in religious services. Information collected from the pre-release questionnaire included whether the respondent attended group therapy, religious groups with whom he would live, types of treatment programs he would participate in after prison, employment plans, how often he would go to church, whether he would be angry more in prison or in the free world, and whether he would be more afraid of being attacked in prison or in the free world. Each inmate also described his criminal history and indicated whether he thought he was able to do things as well as most others, whether he was satisfied with himself on the whole or felt that he was a failure, whether religion was talked about in the home, how often he attended religious services, whether he had friends who were religious while growing up, whether he had friends who were religious while in prison, and how often he participated in religious inmate counseling, religious services, in-prison religious seminars, and community service projects. The three-month post-release follow-up phone survey collected information on whether the respondent was involved with a church group, if the respondent was working for pay, if the respondent and his household received public assistance, if he attended religious services since his release, with whom the respondent was living, and types of treatment programs attended. Official post-release criminal records include information on the offenses the respondent was arrested and incarcerated for, prior arrests and incarcerations, rearrests, outcomes of offenses of rearrests, follow-up period to first rearrest, prison adjustment indicator, self-esteem indicator, time served, and measurements of the respondent's level of religious belief and personal identity. Demographic variables include respondent's faith, race, marital status, education, age at first arrest and incarceration, and age at incarceration for rearrest.
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Sexual Assault Among Latinas (SALAS) Study, May-September 2008 [United States] (ICPSR 28142)
Released/updated on: 2012-10-05
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 2008-05-28--2008-09-03
This Sexual Assault Among Latinas (SALAS) study was designed to examine interpersonal victimization among a national sample of Latino women, particularly focusing on help-seeking behaviors, culturally relevant factors, and psychosocial impacts. A national sample of 2,000 adult Latino women living in the United States participated in the study. An experienced survey research firm with specialization in doing surveys that ask about sensitive subjects conducted interviews between May 28, 2008 and September 3, 2008 using a Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) system. The data contain a total of 1,388 variables including demographics, victimization history, help-seeking efforts, mental health status, and religious behavior and beliefs variables.