Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1979: Hawaii (ICPSR 8042)

Version Date: Aug 8, 2005

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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/ICPSR08042.v2

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Alternate Title

OBTS 1979

Summary

The purpose of the Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1979: Hawaii was to compile, collate, analyze, publish, and disseminate statistical information concerning the operation of the criminal justice system at the federal, state, and local levels. This collection includes facts on an arrested offender showing actions by the police, prosecutor, and court. The individual offender is the unit of analysis, and felony arrests and other related dispositions are included.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1979:  Hawaii. [distributor], 2005-08-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08042.v2

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

Access to these BJS-sponsored data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a NACJD Restricted Data Use Agreement available from the ResearchDataGov website, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Restricted Data Use Agreements available on the NACJD website are provided for reference only. Please visit the ResearchDataGov website to download the appropriate Restricted Data Use Agreement and submit your request. Once approved, data may be accessed from a requester secure site via ICPSR's secure download procedures.

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Time Period(s)

1979

Date of Collection

1979

Data Collection Notes

  1. For reasons of confidentiality, the actual days in the date variables have been masked in the public release version of the data.

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Universe

Population of adults charged with felonies.

Data Source

computerized court records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1986-04-28

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. OFFENDER BASED TRANSACTION STATISTICS (OBTS), 1979: HAWAII. ICPSR08042-v2. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1980. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-08-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08042.v2

2005-08-08 The data were reprocessed with minor changes to formatting, such as making two digit years into four digits. A new restricted data file has been created as well as the public data file. SAS, SPSS, and Stata collection files have been added and the text codebook has been converted to PDF format.

1986-04-28 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:

  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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Notes

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