Juvenile Court Statistics, 1983 [United States] (ICPSR 8656)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08656.v1

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Summary

This data collection describes the volume of juvenile cases disposed of during calendar year 1983 in courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency and dependency/neglect cases) in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. This collection is part of the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth done by juvenile courts, a record inaugurated in 1926. It furnishes an index of the general nature and extent of the problems brought before the juvenile courts.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Juvenile Court Statistics, 1983 [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08656.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (78-JN-AX-0027)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1983

Date of Collection

1985-07 -- 1986-06

Data Collection Notes

  1. The "unit of count" varies across sources. Review of the data notes for each source is necessary before attempting to combine data across sources. Data contain nonnumeric codes.

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Universe

Delinquency and dependency/neglect cases disposed in 1983 by courts in the United States having jurisdiction over juvenile matters.

Data Source

official county-level juvenile court records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1987-05-19

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:
  • United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Juvenile Court Statistics, 1983 [United States]. ICPSR08656-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1986. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08656.v1
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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.