Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census, 1971 (ICPSR 7637)

Version Date: Feb 6, 2008

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07637.v2

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Summary

The purpose of this census was to provide information on juvenile detention centers throughout the United States. The data include information on type of facility, level of government administering the facility, resident population by sex, by age range, by detention status, and by offense, admissions and discharges, average length of stay, staffing and expenditures, age and capacity of facility, and programs and services available.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census, 1971. [distributor], 2008-02-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07637.v2

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics, United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1970-07-01 -- 1971-06-30

Date of Collection

1971
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Universe

All public facilities which house children awaiting court action and children whose cases have been adjudicated.

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. JUVENILE DETENTION AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY CENSUS, 1971. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR07637-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2008-02-06. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07637.v2

2008-02-06 The data file was updated to include ready-to-go files and the ASCII codebook was converted to PDF format.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.