State and local prosecution and civil attorney systems
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 7674; ICPSR (Series) -- 7674
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 18458
Subjects: Public prosecutors; States; Attorneys general; County attorneys; City attorneys
Description: The purpose of this data collection was to establish a current name and address listing of state and local government prosecution and civil attorney agencies and to obtain information about agency function, jurisdiction, employment, funding, and attorney compensation arrangements. The data for each agency include information for any identifiable local police prosecutors. Excluded from the study were private law firms that perform legal services periodically for a government and are compensated by retainers and fees. Variables incuded are agency functions and jurisdiciton, agency funding, number and types of employees, compensation and employment restrictions for attorneys, agency's geographical jurisdiciton, number of branch offices, and number of branch office employees.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: 1976.

Self-enumerated forms.

Survey data.

United States.

Funded by the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

OSIRIS and card-image formats, with SPSS control cards for each.

Case count: 9,229 ; variable count: 52 ; logical record length: 141 ; records per case: 2 ; file structure: rectangular.

Universe: All state, county, and municipal government agencies engaged in prosecution or in providing civil legal services to the government.