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Description & Citation--Study No. 8250 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 8250 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08250 |
| Title: | Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault: Minneapolis, 1981-1982 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Richard A. Berk |
| Lawrence W. Sherman | |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. |
| Grant Number: | 80-IJ-CX-0042 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Berk, Richard A., and Lawrence W. Sherman. SPECIFIC DETERRENT EFFECTS OF ARREST FOR DOMESTIC ASSAULT: MINNEAPOLIS, 1981-1982 [Computer file]. Conducted by the Police Foundation. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1993. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08250 |
Scope of Study | |
| 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. |
| Subject Term(s): | arrests, assaults, crime, crime prevention, demographic characteristics, drug offenses, ethnicity, physical violence, socioeconomic indicators |
| Time Period: | 1981 - 1982 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | March 1981 - September 1982 |
| Universe: | Domestic assault incidents in Minneapolis. |
| Data Type: | survey data, and administrative records data |
Methodology | |
| 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. |
| Data Source: | personal interviews, police records |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1984-11-14 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12. |
| 2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 10 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads. | |
| 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. | |
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