NCJ Number
114616
Journal
Justice Professional Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Dated: (Fall 1988) Pages: 189-200
Date Published
1988
Length
12 pages
Annotation
The focus of this paper is on conceptual limitations in criminal justice statistics regarding the Hispanic population.
Abstract
The paper addresses the problems in constructing a descriptive profile of the Hispanic penal population from public use data sources, and argues that the lack of reliable statistics for the Hispanic penal population is due to a conceptually limiting definition of the Hispanic population. (Author abstract)