The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Description & Citation--Study No. 6884

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

06884

Title:

Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1994

Principal Investigator(s):

National Center for Juvenile Justice and Missouri Division of Youth Services

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 Missouri Division of Youth Services. Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1994. ICPSR06884-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06884.v1

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 Terms:

case processing, delinquent behavior, disposition (legal), juvenile courts, juvenile offenders, status offenses

Geographic Coverage:

Missouri, United States

Time Period:
  • 1994

Date of Collection:
  • 1994--1995

Universe:

Cases disposed in Missouri courts with juvenile jurisdiction.

Data Types:

event/transaction data

Methodology

Sample:

A census of petitioned and nonpetitioned court case records.

Data Source:

records of the Missouri Division of Youth Services.

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:

  • Standardized missing values.

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:

1997-11-13

Version History:

  • 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.