Survey of jail inmates, 1972

by United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics, United States. Bureau of the Census. Demographic Surveys Division, Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network, United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for Advanced Computation, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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This study is a follow-up to the National Jail Census, 1970. In addition to gathering more information concerning jails, the survey also collected demographic data, incarceration history, and legal status data from a sample of the inmates of local jails. The study includes basic demographic data, income and employment data, reason for incarceration, bail status, dates of admission and sentencing, length and type of sentence and previous incarceration history.