Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 1996 : [United States] United States Department of Justice. Bureau ofJustice Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 6858.

Survey of Inmates in Local Jails Series (Series) ; 6858.

ICPSR ; 6858

Survey of Inmates in Local Jails Series ; 6858

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2006-03-30.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1: Numeric Data; Part 2: Alphanumeric Data

Notes:

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

OCLC:

61158220

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.