Metadata record for Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1994

Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1994 National Center for Juvenile Justice and Missouri Division of Youth Services Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-11-04 6884 doi://10.3886/ICPSR06884.v1

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.

UniverseScheme06884 Organization06884_1 95-JNFX-0008 ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.IV case processing delinquent behavior disposition (legal) juvenile courts juvenile offenders status offenses Missouri, United States 1994 1994 event/transaction data Cases disposed in Missouri courts with juvenile jurisdiction. A census of petitioned and nonpetitioned court case records. records of the Missouri Division of Youth Services. 1994 1995

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:

Standardized missing values.

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 2005-11-04 ICPSR 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.