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Description & Citation--Study No. 6884 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 6884 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1994 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | National Center for Juvenile Justice and Missouri Division of Youth Services |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. |
| Grant Number: | 95-JNFX-0008 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | National Center for Juvenile Justice and Missouri Division of Youth Services. MISSOURI JUVENILE COURT RECORDS, 1994 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Pittsburgh, PA: National Center for Juvenile Justice/Jefferson City, MO: Missouri Division of Youth Services [producers], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1994 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases) in Missouri. Inaugurated in 1975 and mandated in 1980, the Missouri Division of Youth Services collects and disseminates delinquency statistics about each case disposed during the previous calendar year. The data include a record of each case processed formally with petition and informally without petition, and contain an individual record on each delinquency, status offense, dependency, and special proceeding case disposed. |
| Subject Term(s): | case processing, delinquent behavior, disposition (legal), juvenile courts, juvenile offenders, status offenses |
| Geographic Coverage: | Missouri, United States |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1994 - 1995 |
| Universe: | Cases disposed in Missouri courts with juvenile jurisdiction. |
| Data Type: | event/transaction data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | A census of petitioned and nonpetitioned court case records. |
| Data Source: | records of the Missouri Division of Youth Services. |
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: | 1997-11-13 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04. |
| 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. | |
