RT Research Data
T1 Inventory of Data Elements in State and Federal Corrections Information Systems, 1998
A1 Sabol, William J.
LA English
PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
YR 1999
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840063823
AB This survey summarizes the data elements maintained by state and federal corrections information systems that track adult, sentenced offenders, and assesses the severity of obstacles in reporting statistical information. Two instruments, an Inventory Questionnaire and an Obstacles Survey, were mailed to Departments of Correction in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Inventory Questionnaire asked 207 questions about data elements describing offenders, 15 questions about elements describing facility management, and 20 questions about the capabilities of the information system to process data electronically. For some elements, questions were asked to determine if more detailed information (subvalues) about the element existed. The Obstacles Survey asked departments to rate the severity of problems they may encounter when processing requests for statistical information. The items were grouped into five categories: legislative and institutional factors, hardware factors, software factors, staffing factors, and data factors.
K1 Adults
K1 correctional facilities
K1 corrections management
K1 Information systems
K1 information use
K1 Offenders
K1 prison inmates
K1 Program Evaluation
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.3886/ICPSR02575.v1