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Description & Citation--Study No. 4439

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

4439

Title:

Census of Tribal Justice Agencies, 2002

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Funding:

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

Bibliographic Citation:

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. CENSUS OF TRIBAL JUSTICE AGENCIES, 2002. Compiled by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR04439-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2006-07-13. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04439.v1

Scope of Study

Summary:

The study compiles data on the law enforcement, courts and administration, corrections and intermediate sanctions, criminal history records, and justice statistics of the federally recognized American Indian tribal governing bodies. The data determine which tribes have sworn law enforcement personnel and the source of authority, what the number and type of tribal court systems are, who performs the tribal detention function and what types of sanctions are imposed. It also looks at whether tribes have access to state and national criminal record systems.

Subject Terms:

correctional facilities, correctional system, corrections, corrections management, demographic characteristics, inmates, jail inmates, jails, Native Americans, population characteristics, probation, substance abuse, treatment programs

Smallest Geographic Unit:

state

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 2002

Date of Collection:
  • 2002

Unit of Observation:

organization

Universe:

All federally recognized American Indian tribes in the lower 48 states

Data Types:

survey data

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:

self-enumerated questionnaire

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

2006-07-13