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    • National Inmate Survey (NIS) - Prisons: Full Survey Respondents, [United States], 2011-2012

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

    The National Inmate Survey (NIS) is part of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Prison Rape Statistics Program, which gathers mandated data on the incidence and prevalence of sexual assault in correctional facilities under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108- 79). Inmates are randomly assigned to receive either a survey of sexual victimization or a survey of criminal history, facility climate, and mental health. About 90 percent of the respondents completed modules through the survey of sexual victimization while the other 10 percent completed modules through the alternative survey. However, the data in this study focuses primarily upon criminal history, facility climate, and mental health. No respondent answered questions about sexual victimization.

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    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 2164
    Data First Published 2018-09-10T11:26:58
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2018-09-10T11:31:33
    Rights These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Aicategory Not AI-ready
    Bureau Code 011:21
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
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    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Internalcontactpoint {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:askbjs@usdoj.gov"}
    Jcamsystem {"acronym": "OJP_EXT", "id": 8, "name": "External system not available in CSAM"}
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadatamodified 9/2/2022 6:21:00 PM
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Sourceidentifier https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37020
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9cab08f0976b726278edc1bca4c9f9cb22d5400c32dd1408fedfcb5929be10f5
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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