Juvenile detention and correctional facility census, 1973

by United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics, United States. Bureau of the Census, United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for Advanced Computation, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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Description

This survey provides information on the characteristics and administration of juvenile detention and correctional facilities. Six types of facilities are covered in this study: (1) detention centers, (2) shelters, (3) reception or diagnostic centers, (4) training schools, (5) ranches, forestry camps, and farms, (6) halfway houses and group homes. Survey items include facility capacity, number of full- and part-time staff, number of admissions and discharges, average quarterly population, and expenditures by the facility. Data for facility residents include age and sex, and average length of stay.