Juvenile Court Statistics, 1987: [United States] (ICPSR 6119)
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National Center for Juvenile Justice
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06119.v1
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This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1987 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, 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 by juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases by sex, number of status offense cases by sex, number of dependency cases by sex, and total number of cases by sex.
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A nonprobability sample of all delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases disposed in 1987.
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All delinquency and dependency/neglect cases disposed in 1987 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Juvenile Court Statistics survey forms, annual reports, automated data files
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1994-03-10
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- National Center for Juvenile Justice. Juvenile Court Statistics, 1987: [United States]. ICPSR06119-v1. ICPSR06119-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06119.v1
2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
2003-06-09 SAS and SPSS data definition statements were created for this collection.
1994-03-10 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.
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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.