{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "restricted public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ask BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:askbjs@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "This project orignally was undertaken to compile a definitive\r\ndatabase on the personal, social, economic, career, and political\r\nattributes of judges who served on the United States Courts of Appeals from\r\n1801 to 1994 - it has now been updated to include information through the year 2000. The database includes conventional social background\r\nvariables such as appointing president, religion, political party\r\naffiliation, education, and prior experience. In addition, unique items are\r\nprovided: the temporal sequence of prior career experiences, the\r\ntiming of and reason for leaving the bench, gender, race and ethnicity,\r\nposition numbering analogous to the scheme used for the Supreme Court,\r\nAmerican Bar Association rating, and net worth (for judges who began\r\nservice on the bench after 1978). The second objective of this project\r\nwas to merge\r\nthese data with a multi-user database on United States Courts of Appeals decisions\r\nthat is headed by Donald Songer and funded by the National Science\r\nFoundation. That database includes a unique identification number\r\nfor each judge participating in a particular decision. The combined\r\ndatabases\r\nshould enable scholars to explore: (1) intra- and inter-circuit fluctuation\r\nin the distribution of social background characteristics, (2) generational\r\nand presidential cohort variation in these attributes, and (3) state\r\nand partisan control of seats. The collection also facilitates the\r\nconstruction of models that examine the effects of personal attributes on\r\ndecision-making, while controlling for the conditions above.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06796.v2", "title": "Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges, 1801-2000"}], "identifier": "2234", "issued": "1997-01-09T00:00:00", "keyword": ["appellate courts", "biographical data", "careers", "databases", "educational background", "ethnicity", "judges", "judicial decisions", "personal finances", "political affiliation", "religious behavior", "social history"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2009-02-03T14:51:36", "programCode": ["011:061"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "Bureau of Justice Statistics", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "rights": "These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.", "title": "Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges, 1801-2000"}