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This study focused on transportation deprivation in women offenders. For the purpose of exploring transportation disadvantage for women on community supervision, interviews were conducted with 75 women on probation or parole. These interviews focused on women's struggles with transportation and featured questions regarding whether they have driving licenses, have social support, are stressed or unsafe when they travel, and whether transportation problems have impacted supervision violations or recidivism events.

The interviews were used to explore the following themes:

• Women's insights and experiences about getting from place to place while under supervision
• Their strategies for increasing transportation resources and access
• The connections of transportation access to attending required/needed programming and supervision appointments
• Whether any violations or new offenses resulted from inadequate transportation access

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme files for a brief dscription of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.

The qualitative data are not available as part of the data collection at this time.

Numerous high-profile events involving student victimization on school buses have raised critical questions regarding the safety of school-based transportation for children, the efforts taken by school districts to protect students on buses, and the most effective transportation-based behavioral management strategies for reducing misconduct. To address these questions, a national web-based survey was administered to public school district-level transportation officials throughout the United States to assess the prevalence of misconduct on buses, identify strategies to address misconduct, and describe effective ways to reduce student misbehavior on buses. Telephone interviews were also conducted with a small group of transportation officials to understand the challenges of transportation-based behavioral management, to determine successful strategies to create safe and positive school bus environments, and to identify data-driven approaches for tracking and assessing disciplinary referrals.

The collection includes 10 Stata data files:

• BVSBS_analysis file.dta (n=2,595; 1058 variables)
• Title Crosswalk File.dta (n=2,594; 3 variables)
• Lessons Learned and Open Dummies.dta (n=1,543; 200 variables)
• CCD dataset.dta (n=12,494; 89 variables)
• BVSB_REGION.dta (n=4; 3 variables)
• BVSB_SCHOOLS.dta (n=3; 3 variables)
• BVSB_STUDENTS.dta (n=3; 3 variables)
• BVSB_URBAN.dta (n=8; 3 variables)
• BVSB_WHITE.dta (n=3; 3 variables)
• FINALRAKER.dta (n=2,595; 2 variables)