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National Survey of Court Organization, 1971-1972

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Justice
Sub-Agency	Bureau of Justice Statistics
Category	Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons
Date Released	05/03/1984
Date Updated	11/04/2005
Time Period	1971-1972
Frequency	approximately every 5 years 1970-1999
Description	The purpose of this study was to document the existing organization of courts in the 50 states and the District of Columbia as of 1971-1972. The survey covers all appellate courts, courts of general jurisdiction, special courts, and other courts of limited jurisdiction. Excluded were justices of the peace and similar magistrates whose compensation is solely on a direct fee basis, and courts of limited or special jurisdiction located in municipalities or townships with a 1960 population of less than 1,000. The data for courts include information on the organization of the court, geographic location, type of court, level of government administering the court, number, types, and full- or part-time status of judicial and other personnel, method of appealing cases, location of court records, and types of statistics. Court subdivision variables cover organization of the courts, geographic location, type of court, level of government administering the court, types of jurisdiction, percentage of judges' time spent on types of cases, availability of jury trials, and length of sentence and amounts of fines which may be imposed by the court. (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Statistical
Keywords	census data, correctional facilities, correctional system, corrections management, demographic characteristics, inmate populations, inmates, jail inmates, jails
Unique ID	2397

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. NATIONAL SURVEY OF COURT ORGANIZATION, 1971-1972 [Computer file]. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1996. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07640
Agency Program Page	http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=284
Agency Data Series Page	http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=284

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	court
Granularity	county or municipality
Geographic Coverage	United States

Data Description

Collection Mode	person/mail
Data Collection Instrument	http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/data/nsco/07640-0001-Codebook.txt.zip
Data Dictionary/Variable List	http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/data/nsco/07640-0001-Codebook.txt.zip

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/data/nsco/07640-0001-Codebook.txt.zip
Additional Metadata	http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/NACJD/STUDY/07640.xml

Statistical Information

Statistical Methodology	http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/data/nsco/07640-0001-Codebook.txt.zip
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Statistical Characteristics

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