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Description & Citation--Study No. 6808 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 6808 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06808 |
| Title: | Arkansas Juvenile Court Records, 1991-1993 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | National Center for Juvenile Justice and Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention |
| Grant Number: | 95-JNFX-0008 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | National Center for Juvenile Justice and Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts. Arkansas Juvenile Court Records, 1991-1993 [Computer file]. ICPSR06808-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06808 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1983, the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts began to collect data from intake and probation departments on each case disposed during the previous calendar year. The data include a record of each case processed formally with petition for each delinquency, dependent/neglect, or family in need of services case disposed. Information is provided on county, case type, date of filing, reason for referral to the courts, and the court action. |
| Subject Term(s): | case processing, court cases, juvenile courts, juvenile crime |
| Geographic Coverage: | Arkansas, United States |
| Time Period: | 1991 - 1993 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1991 - 1994 |
| Universe: | Cases disposed in Arkansas courts with juvenile jurisdiction. |
| Data Type: | event/transaction data |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | records of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts |
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: | 1998-01-16 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-03-30. |
| 2006-03-30 - File SP6808.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
| 2006-03-30 - File SA6808.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
| 2006-03-30 - File CB6808.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. | |
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