Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census, 1971 (ICPSR 7637)

Published: Feb 6, 2008

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Series:

Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities Series

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07637.v2

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Project Description

Summary

The purpose of this census was to provide information on juvenile detention centers throughout the United States. The data include information on type of facility, level of government administering the facility, resident population by sex, by age range, by detention status, and by offense, admissions and discharges, average length of stay, staffing and expenditures, age and capacity of facility, and programs and services available.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census, 1971. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-02-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07637.v2

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

census data correctional facilities (juveniles) criminal justice system group homes inmate populations juvenile crime juvenile detention juvenile inmates juvenile offenders juveniles offenses restitution centers status offenses

Geographic Coverage

United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1970-07-01 -- 1971-06-30

Date of Collection

1971

Methodology

Universe

All public facilities which house children awaiting court action and children whose cases have been adjudicated.

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version Date

2008-02-06

Version History

2008-02-06 The data file was updated to include ready-to-go files and the ASCII codebook was converted to PDF format.

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.

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.