AIDS-Related Written Court Decisions in Federal and State Courts, 1984-1989 : [United States] Michael C. Musheno.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 6502.

ICPSR ; 6502

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.

United States.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients.

Discrimination in justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in justice administration.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2005-11-04.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This data collection was designed to identify the party characteristics, case attributes, and idea structures of written court decisions related to Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Written court decisions related to AIDS in state and federal courts were located via the LEXUS and WESTLAW data systems. For a case to be eligible, it had to address an issue involving AIDS or involve a party who was believed to be infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and a legal decision had to provide sufficient written material to analyze. Coding was completed by three individuals with legal training based on a team-developed codebook. Except in those areas where a preliminary test showed 90-percent reliability, variables were coded based on a consensus rule. Variables include court jurisdiction, whether the case was civil or criminal, case issue area, gender of plaintiff, relationship between parties, demand and primary purpose of the demand by the defendant and the plaintiff, what the court explicitly relied upon for its decision, whether the plaintiff or defendant had AIDS, AIDS-Related Complex (ARC), or was HIV-infected, and whether the plaintiff or defendant was gay, an IV drug user, a prisoner or an accused criminal, a member of a stigmatized group, or a racial or an ethnic minority. The unit of analysis is the written court decision.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06502

Contents:

Part 1: Data File; Part 2: SAS Data Definition Statements

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Start: 1984; and end: 1989.

OCLC:

61157291

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.