Descriptive Profile of the Hispanic Penal Population: Conceptual and Reliability Limitations in Public Use Data

• NCJ Number: 114616
• Journal: Justice Professional Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Dated: (Fall 1988) Pages: 189-200
• Author(s): A Aguirre; D V Baker
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 12 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: This paper is a revised version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Criminal Justice, Las Vegas, April 1985.

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)