Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM)
The Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis and education. With over 1,500 academic, practitioner, organizational and institutional members, APPAM promotes its mission through the annual Fall Research Conference, with the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM), the association's journal, several award programs and various activites including international and national conferences and workshops.
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BJS Corrections Data
U.S. Department of Justice
This site holds a collection of BJS data related to corrections. The collection includes information on jail and prison inmates and sexual offenders, as well as probation services and the state of jails and prisons.
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BJS Courts Data
U.S. Department of Justice
BJS provides data from statistical projects and surveys conducted at various court levels. The site also includes data on juveniles in criminal court.
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BJS Crime Type Data
U.S. Department of Justice
BJS provies data on the types of crimes that occur in the the U.S. and where. The site includes a city-level survey of crime, victimization, and citizen attitudes.
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BJS Law Enforcement Data
U.S. Department of Justice
BJS provides a variety of data related to law enforcement.
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BJS Victims Data
U.S. Department of Justice
BJS provides data on victimization and intentional violence.
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British Crime Survey
Economic and Social Data Service
The British Crime Survey (BCS) is one of the largest social surveys conducted in Britain. It is currently carried out by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB).
The BCS is primarily a 'victimization' survey, in which respondents are asked about the experiences of property crimes of the household (e.g. burglary) and personal crimes (e.g. theft from the person) which they themselves have experienced. The reference period to which these questions relate is from the first of January in the calendar year preceding the BCS, up to the date of interview. The reference period and indeed the wording of the series of questions, which are asked to elicit victimisation experiences, have been held constant throughout the series of BCS surveys.
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Department of Justice
The Bureau of Justice Statistics provides national data on such justice-related issues as crimes, victims, and corrections.
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Center for Urban Initiatives and Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Urban Archive is designed as a catalogue of research studies and reports focused on greater Milwaukee and Southeastern Wisconsin. Each catalogued item provides bibliographic information, content abstract, source and, where possible, an electronic link to the report. The catalogue is organized by topical categories.
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Center for Urban Research and Policy—Columbia University
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
The Center for Urban Research and Policy (CURP) has been established at a time of profound economic, political, and social change. The civic discourse has become increasingly anti-urban with fewer opportunities for informed non-partisan dialogue. Political leaders and ordinary citizens need reliable policy research, training in technology, and opportunities for public discussion on issues of concern to America’s cities. As an internationally known research university located in New York City, Columbia has a special responsibility to make a substantial contribution to these efforts. CURP promises to fulfill this responsibility by becoming a national resource for education, research, and discussion on issues confronting America’s cities. The Center is engaged in an ambitious program of training, research, and public discussion.
The need for the Center is increasingly apparent in the visible problems and repeated fiscal crises of our cities. Opportunities are evident in the renewed interest in domestic public policy and by an increased willingness by various sectors of society to “do something.” However, greater voice and focus and better dialogue and data are required to create a capacity for more informed discussions which will help influence the larger national agenda in effective policy-making. With the support of the entire Columbia community, the Center and its programs draw attention to issues confronting urban America and prepare the nation’s leaders for the challenge of solving these problems.
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Chicago Policy Review
University of Chicago
Since 1996 the Chicago Policy Review (CPR) has published top scholarship in the field of public policy analysis. Initially a forum for renowned scholars and policy experts such as Nobel Laureate James Heckman, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator John McCain, the journal has primarily published the work of students and alumni of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago since 2006.
The Chicago Policy Review (ISSN: 1093-8990) is edited and published annually by the students of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. By establishing linkages between theory and practice, the Review aims to promote thought provoking, insightful, and relevant public policy decision-making.
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City Mayors
Cities are shaping today's social, cultural, economic and technological agendas. They compete, learn from each other and act together. The City Mayors Foundation was established in 2003 to promote, encourage, and facilitate good open and strong local government.
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City of Chicago Data Portal
The City of Chicago’s Data Portal is dedicated to promoting access to government data and encouraging the development of creative tools to engage and serve Chicago's diverse community. Here you’ll find essential data presented in easy-to-use formats to help Chicagoans keep track of how their government is performing and build innovative applications to benefit residents and visitors alike.
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County and City Data Books
University of Virginia
This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books providing users with the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).
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The Chicago Police Department will release details on every crime committed in the city over the past decade in a comprehensive online database.
September 22, 2011
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Crime in the nation's largest cities has fallen to its lowest rate in 40 years, according to a new report from the FBI.
June 07, 2011
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Crime Lab
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Crime Lab seeks to improve our understanding of how to reduce crime and violence by helping government agencies and non-profit organizations rigorously evaluate new pilot programs.
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Data SF (San Francisco)
City of San Francisco
DataSF is a central clearinghouse for datasets published by the City & County of San Francisco. The site allows you to find datasets in several ways: general search, tags/keywords, categories, and rating. The goal is to improve access to city data through open machine-readable formats. While the number and quality of datasets is increasing, we recognize there is much more that we can do. You can help by rating and commenting on existing datasets or by telling us what datasets we should make available to the public.
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DataPlace
DataPlace is an easy-to-use source of U.S. housing and demographic data from the census tract to the national level. The cite currently contains data from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses, as well as home mortgage, Section 8, and housing needs data. There is useful directory and users can create their own maps. Included topics are mortgage lending, income and employment, housing, health, social and demographic, education, arts, and federal expenditures.
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Digitized primary-source records of the Committee of Fifteen's investigation into sin in Chicago are now available
August 14, 2012
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Does video camera surveillance make cities safer?
Law-enforcement agencies worldwide have been investing in closed-circuit television (CCTV). During the recent London riots, the ubiquity of the cameras proved instrumental to police, as about 2000 rioters were captured on video. While law enforcement has typically argued that cameras make cities safer, recent studies have questioned this claim, suggesting that their effectiveness might be limited and that their impact on citizens’ sense of safety might be the opposite of what governments intend.
September 01, 2011
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Economic and Social Data Service
The Economic and Social Data Service is a national data archiving and dissemination service in the UK which came into operation in January 2003. The service is a jointly-funded initiative sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
The ESDS is a distributed service, based on a collaboration between four key centres of expertise:
UK Data Archive (UKDA), University of Essex
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) , University of Essex
Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), University of Manchester
Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), University of Manchester
These centres work collaboratively to provide preservation, dissemination, user support and training for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. The ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities.
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Efficacy of Chicago's blue light cameras in deterring crime is debated.
September 28, 2011
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Hyperlocal news sources Everyblock relaunches its website, giving block by block news for 16 cities across the country.
March 25, 2011
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Global City Indicators
The Global City Indicators Program provides an established set of city indicators with a globally standardized methodology that allows for global comparability of city performance and knowledge sharing. This website serves all cities that become members to measure and report on a core set of indicators through this web-based relational database.
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Homicide in Chicago
Northwestern University
The years between 1870 and 1930 marked the emergence of Chicago as a dominant American city, undergoing some of the most dramatic and extensive social, political and economic changes in our national history. Against this backdrop we present a unique record – the Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index – chronicling 11,000 homicides in the city during those years.
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HUD State of the Cities Data Systems
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The HUD State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS) provide data on metropolitan areas, central cities and suburbs: demographic and economic data from the 1970 through 2000 U.S. censuses, current employment statistics, jobs, business establishments, and average pay, crime, building permit, and urban public finance data.
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Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation
Rutgers University
The Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation (IRCT) is a university-based effort that helps community residents and leaders in the public and private sectors frame workable policies that will bolster the political, economic, and social participation of marginalized communities within the larger metropolitan community. The IRCT's vision is inclusive. Not only does it encompass concerns for the poor, but leaders of the Initiative also believe that in order for metropolitan regions to support sustainable and livable communities, all sectors of civil society must be involved and see a shared interest.
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Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
The Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program was established in 1996 under the direction of William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor. The Program seeks to analyze the effects of increasing urban poverty and joblessness plaguing the inner cities and to ensure that scholarly research plays a critical role in the creation and implementation of national public policy concerning the poor.
Through conferences,seminars, and research activities, the Program agenda focuses on the various social forces and ecological factors that contribute to the marginalization and social isolation of urban populations.
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Journal of Policy Analysis & Management (JPAM)
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM)
APPAM founded the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) in 1981 through the merger of two other journals – Policy Analysis and Public Policy. Wiley-Blackwell (formerly John Wiley & Sons) has published JPAM since 1981. The current contract for publishing JPAM runs until the end of 2016. JPAM is published quarterly and is a peer-reviewed research journal. The creation of JPAM fulfilled one of the primary reasons for APPAM's existence: the dissemination of the highest quality, multidisciplinary research in public policy and management. As the Association's journal of record, JPAM's ultimate purpose is building a professional community of scholars and practitioners devoted to more effective policy analysis and public management.
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London Lives
University of Hertfordshire, University of Sheffield, Economic and Social Research Council, HRI
A searchable resource on crime, poverty, and social policy in London from 1690-1800 featuring 240,000 manuscripts from 8 archives, and 15 datasets, with access to 3.35 million names.
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Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy is a vibrant intellectual community of faculty, master's and Ph.D. students, researchers, and administrative staff striving to improve public policy and practice in the areas of health care, human services, criminal justice, inequality, education, and labor. The work of the Center draws on the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to address pressing questions. Over the last twenty years, the Wiener Center has been an influential voice in domestic policy through faculty work on community policing, welfare reform, youth violence, inner city poverty, youth and the low-wage labor market, American Indian economic and social development, and medical error rates.
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MetroTrends Data
Urban Institute
MetroTrends is the Urban Institute's report card and toolkit for researchers, students, journalists, elected officials and the public on the state of metropolitan economies. The site provides data for the top 100 cities in the following topic areas: arts and culture, crime, demographics, economic output, employment, food insecurity, health insurance, housing, nonprofits, unemployment, and wages.
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Milwaukee's violent crime rates may have been artificially distorted to appear lower than actuality.
June 26, 2012
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National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
The mission of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data.
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National Opinion Research Center
University of Chicago
Understanding our society – and taking action on the issues that confront it – requires insight gained through objective, high-quality social science research. That’s why decision makers and policy leaders turn to NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent research organization known for excellence, innovation, and effective collaboration. Working with NORC experts, clients obtain the data and analysis needed to drive evidence-based decisions and improve public policy in fields such as health, education, economics, crime, justice, energy, security, and the environment. Dedicated to the public interest for 70 years, NORC has helped a wide range of clients identify and address society’s most urgent challenges
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Policy Studies Journal
American Political Science Association; Policy Studies Organization
As the principal outlet for the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association and for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), the Policy Studies Journal (PSJ) is the premier channel for the publication of public policy research. PSJ is best characterized as an outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on policy process and policy analysis. More specifically, we aim to publish articles that advance public policy theory, explicitly articulate its methods of data collection and analysis, and provide clear descriptions of how their work advances the literature.
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Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
Economic and Social Data Service
In April 2008 the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) replaced the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey (SCVS) which had replaced the Scottish Crime Survey (SCS) in 2004.
The SCJS is a social survey which asks people about their experiences and perceptions of crime in Scotland. The structure of the survey is similar to the British Crime Survey, but contains different modules and questionnaire sections. The main aims of the SCJS are to:
- Provide reliable statistics on peoples experience of crime, including services provided to victims of crime
- Assess the varying risk of crime for different groups of people in the population
- Examine trends in the level and nature of crime in Scotland over time
- Collect information about people's experiences of, and attitudes on a range of crime and justice related issues
An important role of the SCJS is to provide an alternative and complementary measure of crime to the police recorded crime statistics, which provide statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the eight Scottish police forces.
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Sociology Data Set Server
A collection of ICPSR sociological data.
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Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistic
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data presented in over 600 tables from more than 100 U.S. sources. Although the publication of Sourcebook is an annual event, its compilation is an ongoing process. As such, updates of tables and new data sources are continually received and prepared for presentation in the next edition. This site will be updated regularly to reflect these new data as they will appear in the next edition to be published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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What is the effect of mass incarceration on urban black families?
More than seven times as many people are incarcerated in the United States as in Europe. The main victims of the prison boom are minority, particularly African American, men, who, as sociologist Bruce Western has found, are eight times more likely to have served time in prison than white men.
June 01, 2011
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