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Description & Citation--Study No. 4439

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4439
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04439
 
Title:Census of Tribal Justice Agencies, 2002
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. CENSUS OF TRIBAL JUSTICE AGENCIES, 2002 [Computer file]. Compiled by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR04439-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2006-07-13. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04439
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The study compiles data on the law enforcement, courts and administration, corrections and intermediate sanctions, criminal history records, and justice statistics of the federally recognized American Indian tribal governing bodies. The data determine which tribes have sworn law enforcement personnel and the source of authority, what the number and type of tribal court systems are, who performs the tribal detention function and what types of sanctions are imposed. It also looks at whether tribes have access to state and national criminal record systems.
 
Subject Term(s):correctional facilities, correctional system, corrections, corrections management, demographic characteristics, inmates, jail inmates, jails, Native Americans, population characteristics, probation, substance abuse, treatment programs
 
Smallest Geographic Unit:state
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2002
 
Date(s) of Collection:2002
 
Unit of Observation:organization
 
Universe:All federally recognized American Indian tribes in the lower 48 states
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:self-enumerated questionnaire
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2006-07-13
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Census of Tribal Justice Agencies, 2002
 

 

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