NCJ Number
171685
Date Published
1998
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This kit includes an explanatory booklet and a CD-ROM that presents three corrections datasets from the 1995 National Corrections Reporting Program; the datasets cover prison admissions, prison releases, and parole releases for the United States.
Abstract
The Bureau of Justice Statistics datasets on the CD-ROM are supplied in raw, uncompressed ASCII form. The manual explains the hardware and software requirements and the steps involved in obtaining access to the information on the CD-ROM. It also summarizes the roles of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse. Information is also provided on restrictions on the use of the data on the CD-ROM and on how to acknowledge data through the use of bibliographic citations. Tables and figures