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Study of Tribal and Alaska Native Juvenile Justice Systems in The United States, 1990

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

Summary: This data collection focuses on juvenile justice systems administered by federally recognized Indian tribes throughout the United States. Responses were received from 93 tribes who indicated that they administered some form of juvenile justice system and from 57 tribes who indicated that they did not. Variables in the data collection include number of Indian juveniles aged 10-17 in the jurisdiction, types of cases that the juvenile justice system exercised jurisdiction over, type o... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09772.v1

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