The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Description & Citation--Study No. 6808

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

06808

Title:

Arkansas Juvenile Court Records, 1991-1993

Principal Investigator(s):

National Center for Juvenile Justice and Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts

Funding:

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (95-JNFX-0008)

Bibliographic Citation:

National Center for Juvenile Justice and Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts. Arkansas Juvenile Court Records, 1991-1993. ICPSR06808-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06808.v1

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 Terms:

case processing, court cases, juvenile courts, juvenile crime

Geographic Coverage:

Arkansas, United States

Time Period:
  • 1991--1993

Date of Collection:
  • 1991--1994

Universe:

Cases disposed in Arkansas courts with juvenile jurisdiction.

Data Types:

event/transaction data

Methodology

Data Source:

records of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Access and Availability

Note:

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:

  • 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.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1991 Data File
  • DS2: 1992 Data File
  • DS3: 1993 Data File