Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 1996: [United States]
This collection provides nationally representative data on
persons held prior to trial and on convicted offenders serving
sentences in local jails or awaiting transfer to state prisons. Data
cover demographic characteristics of jail inmates (sex, race,
ethnicity, Hispanic origin, employment), current offenses and
sentences, detention status, trial, bail, characteristics of victims,
criminal histories, incident characteristics, socioeconomic
circumstances, jail conditions and activities, and prior drug and
alcohol use and treatment. Part 1, Numeric Data, contains numeric data
for all questions in the survey, while Part 2, Alphanumeric Data,
consists of nonnumeric answers to the "Other, Specify" selection
available for some of the questions.
Resources
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Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 1996: [United States]
FILE
Complete Metadata
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| description | This collection provides nationally representative data on persons held prior to trial and on convicted offenders serving sentences in local jails or awaiting transfer to state prisons. Data cover demographic characteristics of jail inmates (sex, race, ethnicity, Hispanic origin, employment), current offenses and sentences, detention status, trial, bail, characteristics of victims, criminal histories, incident characteristics, socioeconomic circumstances, jail conditions and activities, and prior drug and alcohol use and treatment. Part 1, Numeric Data, contains numeric data for all questions in the survey, while Part 2, Alphanumeric Data, consists of nonnumeric answers to the "Other, Specify" selection available for some of the questions. |
| distribution |
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"title": "Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 1996: [United States]",
"accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06858.v1"
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|
| identifier |
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|
| isPartOf |
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|
| issued | 1999-06-02T00:00:00 |
| keyword |
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"correctional facilities",
"criminal histories",
"demographic characteristics",
"drug use",
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"jail inmates",
"jails",
"offenses",
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]
|
| language |
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"eng"
]
|
| license | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
| modified | 2006-03-30T00:00:00 |
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|
| publisher |
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"name": "Bureau of Justice Statistics",
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|
| title | Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 1996: [United States] |
