Offender Characteristics, Offense Mix, and Escalation in Domestic Violence in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Miami-Dade, Florida, Omaha, Nebraska, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1987-1989
Description
Using data from five Spouse Assault Replication Program
(SARP) sites, this study examined the extent to which domestic
violence offenders exhibit a specialized proclivity toward violence
and the extent to which attack severity escalates, de-escalates, or
stays about the same over time. The specialization question was
examined using official arrest records from the Charlotte, North
Carolina, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Omaha,
Nebraska sites. Escalation was examined using victim interview data
from the Charlotte, Milwaukee, Omaha, and Miami-Dada, Florida
sites. This collection consists of 18 SAS setup files used to recode
the variables from the original datasets, organized in five groups, by
city of each data collection site. This collection does not contain
the original data files, themselves.