Juvenile Court Statistics, 1986: Reported Cases in Calendar Year Data Base (ICPSR 9691)
Version Date: Mar 4, 1992 View help for published
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National Center for Juvenile Justice
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09691.v1
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This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth done by juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases by sex, number of status cases by sex, number of dependency cases by sex, and total number of cases by sex.
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All delinquency and dependency/neglect cases disposed in 1986 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters in all states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
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Juvenile Court Statistics survey form, annual reports, and automated data files containing detailed case records
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1992-03-04
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- National Center for Juvenile Justice. Juvenile Court Statistics, 1986: Reported Cases in Calendar Year Data Base. ICPSR09691-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09691.v1
1992-03-04 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:
- Standardized missing values.
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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.
This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.