American Bar Foundation: State Criminal Court Cases, 1962 (ICPSR 7272)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Lee Silverstein; Stuart S. Nagel

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07272.v1

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Summary

This study presents data about criminal court cases in the 50 states and District of Columbia in 1962. Variables include state and county of trial, case processing, offense charged, sentence, type of counsel, amount of bail, length of time in jail, and other aspects related to the disposition of the cases. Demographic information on the defendant is provided, such as age group, sex, race, and years of school completed.

Citation

Silverstein, Lee, and Nagel, Stuart S. American Bar Foundation:  State Criminal Court Cases, 1962 . [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07272.v1

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Time Period(s)

1962

Date of Collection

1963 -- 1964

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

A sample of cases from 194 counties was selected and weighted to yield a national cross-section of cases.

Universe

Criminal court cases in the 50 states and the District of Columbia in 1962.

Data Source

criminal court records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

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:
  • Silverstein, Lee, and Stuart S. Nagel. AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION: STATE CRIMINAL COURT CASES, 1962. ICPSR version. Urbana-Champaign, IL: Stuart S. Nagel, University of Illinois, Dept. of Political Science [producer], 1965. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07272.v1

1984-05-03 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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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.