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    Crime Days Precursors Study: Baltimore, 1952-1976

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

    This data collection focuses on 354 male narcotic addicts who were selected using a stratified random sample from a population of 6,149 known narcotic abusers arrested or identified by the Baltimore, Maryland, Police Department between 1952 and 1976. Variables include respondent's use of controlled drugs, including marijuana, hallucinogens, amphetamines, barbiturates, codeine, heroin, methadone, cocaine, tranquilizers, and other narcotics. Also of interest is the respondent's past criminal activity including arrests, length of incarceration, educational attainment, employment history, personal income, mobility, and drug treatment, if any.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Justice
    Maintainer
    Identifier 2803
    Data First Published 1985-03-18T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 1992-02-16T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Aicategory Not AI-ready
    Bureau Code 011:21
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    Harvest Object Id 3aeed646-85ad-49bb-87b0-a244771b1bc1
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    Jcamsystem {"acronym": "OJP_EXT", "id": 8, "name": "External system not available in CSAM"}
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadatamodified 9/2/2022 6:22:00 PM
    Program Code 011:060
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > National Institute of Justice
    Sourceidentifier https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08222
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 857c9447f14fb3aa6e40027e45f4ce304684ad94b6f483c6c2a4d12061237425
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