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Survey of Jail Inmates, 1972

Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

This study is a follow-up to the National Jail Census, 1970. In addition to gathering more information concerning jails, the survey also collected demographic data, incarceration history, and legal status data from a sample of the inmates of local jails. The study includes basic demographic data, income and employment data, reason for incarceration, bail status, dates of admission and sentencing, length and type of sentence and previous incarceration history.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOJ JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
Maintainer
Identifier 291
Data First Published 1984-03-18T00:00:00
Language eng
Data Last Modified 1992-02-16T00:00:00
Public Access Level public
Aicategory Not AI-ready
Bureau Code 011:21
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Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
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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/ICPSR07668
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash bbcfa8d273043456170b25aacefa149c7413128daea0290efc761fcd0a2987ce
Source Schema Version 1.1

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