Multnomah County [Oregon] Jury Project, 1973-1976 (ICPSR 9030)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992 View help for published

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Bernard Grofman

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09030.v1

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The Multnomah County, Oregon, Jury Project was conducted as part of the Modeling Jury Decision Project funded by the National Science Foundation. These data represent a census of 32 jury panels that served from July 1973 through March 1976 in the Fourth Circuit Court in Multnomah County (Portland), Oregon. Information was obtained for both six-member and twelve-member juries. Data were collected from official court records, monthly juror panel summaries, and self-administered juror demographic data sheets. Information collected includes members of the jury, their votes, the final verdict, the type of case, the name of the judge, and the amount of time taken by the jury to arrive at a decision, as well as each juror's age, occupation, years of residence in Oregon, educational background, family information, and information on past juries and trials they were involved in. The data include both individual-level juror and aggregate jury case data, with information on 6,657 jurors and 1,159 trials.

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Grofman, Bernard. Multnomah County [Oregon] Jury Project, 1973-1976. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09030.v1

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Funding View help for Funding

National Science Foundation. Law and Social Sciences Program (SOC 75-14091 and SOC 77-24702)

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Time Period(s) View help for Time Period(s)

1973-07 -- 1976-03

Date of Collection View help for Date of Collection

1975 -- 1976

Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes

Although there is information for 6,657 jurors, there are actually a total of 6,892 cases in the data file. The extra 235 cases are dummy cases. Users should see variable 9, CASEFILT, located in column 23 for an explanation regarding these dummy cases.

Universe View help for Universe

All jury panels in Multnomah County, Oregon, from July 1973 to March 1976.

Data Source View help for Data Source

trial summaries, monthly juror panel summaries, and self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s) View help for Data Type(s)

administrative records data, and survey data

Original Release Date View help for Original Release Date

1984-07-12

Version History View help for Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Grofman, Bernard. Multnomah County [Oregon] Jury Project, 1973-1976. ICPSR09030-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09030.v1

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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.

  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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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.