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Inventory of Data Elements in State and Federal Corrections Information Systems, 1998

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Principal Investigator(s): Sabol, William J.

Summary: This survey summarizes the data elements maintained by state and federal corrections information systems that track adult, sentenced offenders, and assesses the severity of obstacles in reporting statistical information. Two instruments, an Inventory Questionnaire and an Obstacles Survey, were mailed to Departments of Correction in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Inventory Questionnaire asked 207 questions about data elements describing offen... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02575.v1

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