Details

Related name

• Besharov, Douglas J. [Browse]
• Martin, Susan E. [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 6338. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 6338

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This study was conducted by the Police Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute to document municipal and county law enforcement agencies' policies for dealing with child abuse, neglect, and sexual assault and exploitation, and to identify emerging police practices. The researchers investigated promising approaches for dealing with child abuse and also probed for areas of weakness that are in need of improvement. Data were collected from 122 law enforcement agencies on topics including interagency reporting and case screening procedures, the existence and organizational location of specialized units for conducting child abuse investigations, actual procedures for investigating various types of child abuse cases, factors that affect the decision to arrest in physical and sexual abuse cases, the scope and nature of interagency cooperative agreements practices and relations, the amount of training received by agency personnel, and ways to improve agency responses to child abuse and neglect cases.... Cf.: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06338.xml

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Type of data

1 data file + machine-readable documentation (text) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system + data collection instruments

Time and place of event

Start: 1987; and end: 1988.

Geographic coverage

United States

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. NationalInstitute of Justice. OJP-86-C-002

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

• Data source: The data were collected by telephone interviews with designated respondents from municipal and county law enforcement agencies.
• Universe: Municipal and county law enforcement agencies in the United States with populations over 100,000.

Contents

Part 1: Data File; Part 2: SAS Data Definition Statements

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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