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Description & Citation--Study No. 8656 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 8656 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08656 |
| Title: | Juvenile Court Statistics, 1983 [United States] |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Department of Justice. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention |
| Series: | Juvenile Court Statistics Series |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention |
| Grant Number: | 78-JN-AX-0027 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | United States Department of Justice. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Juvenile Court Statistics, 1983 [United States] [Computer file]. ICPSR08656-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1986. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08656 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This data collection describes the volume of juvenile cases disposed of during calendar year 1983 in courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency and dependency/neglect cases) in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. This collection is part of the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth done by juvenile courts, a record inaugurated in 1926. It furnishes an index of the general nature and extent of the problems brought before the juvenile courts. |
| Subject Term(s): | case processing, county courts, criminal justice system, delinquent behavior, dependents, juvenile courts, juvenile justice, state courts, statistical data, status offenses, youths |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 1983 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | July 1985 - June 1986 |
| Universe: | Delinquency and dependency/neglect cases disposed in 1983 by courts in the United States having jurisdiction over juvenile matters. |
| Data Type: | county-level aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The "unit of count" varies across sources. Review of the data notes for each source is necessary before attempting to combine data across sources. Data contain nonnumeric codes. |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | official county-level juvenile court records |
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: | 1987-05-19 |
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