Metadata record for National Corrections Reporting Program, 2004

National Corrections Reporting Program, 2004 NCRP United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2013-01-17 26521 doi://10.3886/ICPSR26521.v2

The National Corrections Reporting Program gathers data on prisoners entering and leaving the custody or supervision of state and federal authorities. The dataset is comprised of four types of data: prisoners who were admitted to prison (Part 1), released from prison (Part 2), released from parole (Part 3), or in prison at year end (Part 4). The National Prison Statistics (NPS) program was established in 1926 by the Bureau of the Census in response to a congressional mandate to compile national information on the populations confined in correctional institutions. This program described the characteristics and counts of prison inmates during each calendar year. Since its initiation, responsibility for this program has shifted among several agencies -- in 1950 it was transferred to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and to the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in 1971. Since 1972, the Bureau of Census, under agreement with the Department of Justice, has had responsibility for compiling the statistical data. Census staff negotiates directly with each state, assembles and edits the data, and prepares the data for analysis and publication.

UniverseScheme26521 National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00038. Organization26521_1 ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.VI NACJD.VII NACJD.III correctional facilities correctional facilities (juveniles) correctional system demographic characteristics federal correctional facilities jail inmates juvenile offenders national crime statistics (USA) offenders offenses parole prison inmates probation state correctional facilities United States 2004-01-01 2004-12-31 individual administrative records data All persons admitted to prison, released from prison, discharged from parole, or in prison at year end in 2004 in the United States. 2005-01-01 2005-03-31

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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The data are restricted from general dissemination. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement form and specify the reasons for the request. A copy of the Restricted Data Use Agreement form can be requested by calling 800-999-0960. Researchers can also download this form as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file from the download page associated with this dataset. Completed forms should be returned to: Director, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, P.O. Box 1248, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, or by fax: 734-647-8200.

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The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics 2013-01-17 ICPSR 2013-01-17 New variables were added to the data by the principal investigator. All files will be released in restricted format. 2010-04-28 ICPSR 2010-04-28 The entire NCRP series is being re-released in restricted format - however, 2004 will have restricted files which include all variables, in addition to public files, which exclude sensitive variables.