State Court Organizations, 2004 [United States] (ICPSR 4575)

Published: Oct 30, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
National Center for State Courts; Conference of State Court Administrators

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04575.v1

Version V1

Summary

This data collection provides detailed comparative information about the structure, policies, and procedures of state-wide trial and appellate court systems for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in the United States as of June 31, 2004. Information gathered includes: the number of courts and judges, judicial selection, governance of court systems (including judicial funding, administration, staffing, and procedures), jury qualifications and verdict rules, and processing and sentencing procedures of criminal cases. Data collection was carried out by the National Center for State Courts.

Citation

National Center for State Courts, and Conference of State Court Administrators. State Court Organizations, 2004 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-10-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04575.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics (2003-BJ-CX-K003)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

state

Time Period(s)

2004

Date of Collection

2004 -- 2005

Universe

Statewide appellate and trial courts in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Unit(s) of Observation

organization

Data Type(s)

survey data, and administrative records data

Mode of Data Collection

self-enumerated questionnaires

Original Release Date

2006-10-30

Version Date

2006-10-30

Version History

2006-10-30 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:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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.

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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.