Interdisciplinary Legal Research: Data Mining in Legal Matters TBA & Dana Neacsu

Hypothetical 1: In Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), the U.S. Supreme Court extended the due process protections of the exclusionary rule to include all “constitutionally unreasonable searches” that were done without a basis of probable cause. In the 7 years after Mapp, homicide rates in the U.S. nearly doubled, riots broke out in at least forty-seven U.S. cities. During the same era, a heroin epidemic gripped the nation’s urban centers, giving rise to street drug markets and associated violence and pressures on law enforcement to curb those markets. As violence increased, a turn in the nation’s political culture questioned Mapp’s restraints on police discretion to stop and search criminal suspects. The result was Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968). Can we find the data supporting the jurisprudential change from Mapp to Terry?

Macro-management of interdisciplinary legal research: What data Macro-management of interdisciplinary legal research: What data? From what databases? Free-of charge or proprietary?

Crime Statistics U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau of Justice Statistics National Criminal Justice Reference Service Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center Bureau of Prisons Drug Enforcement Administration Federal Bureau of Investigation National Insitute of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention U.S. Marshals Service U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Judiciary/U.S. Courts Justice Research and Statistics Association National Archive of Criminal Justice Data National Center for Juvenile Justice National Center for State Courts Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

Crime Statistics Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, University of Albany Compilation of over 100 sources for data on crime, victims, arrests, seizures, courts, prosecutions, sentencing, prisons and inmates as well as public opinion on crime and criminal justice-related topics and information on criminal justice systems. Examples Estimated number and rate (per 100,000 inhabitants) of offenses known to police, by offense, United States 1960-2012 Reported Drug use by type of drug, United States, 1988-2003 Percent distribution of arrests for drug abuse violations 1982-2012 Arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration 1992-2003 Drug removals from the domestic market by the Drug Enforcement Administration 1978-2003

Statistical Abstract of the United States Census Department until 2012, now ProQuest Pdf archives available online - http://www.census.gov/library/publications/time-series/statistical_abstracts.html Tabular versions available in ProQuest statistical abstract of the U.S. (search CLIO) https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/10126076 Section 5 – Law Enforcement, Federal Courts and Prisons. Tables on crime rates, offenses and arrests, police protection, court cases, civil disorders, police protection and prisoners

Crime Data, Political Culture, Public Opinion ICPSR http://www.icpsr.umich.edu A vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, over 8,000 titles presented with full documentation and most with data formatted for use in standard statistical packages. Search by variable or dataset Raw data Examples Political Violence in the United States, 1819-1968 (ICPSR 80) Governmental Responses to Crime in the United States, 1948-1978 (ICPSR 8076) National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1979 (ICPSR 6843) Correlates of Crime: A Study of 52 Nations, 1960-1984 (ICPSR 9258) Public Policy and Socio-Economic Data for Large Cities in the United States, 1960 (ICPSR 65) Patterns of Behavior in Police and Citizen Transactions: Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC, 1966 (ICPSR 9086)

Questions? Dana Neacsu: edn13@Columbia.edu Many thanks to Eric Glass Email: ecg2104@columbia.edu