NCJ Number
224995
Date Published
1980
Length
126 pages
Annotation
This report is a guide to the four Appendices from the report on the Survey of Metropolitan Juvenile Courts conducted by the National Center for State Courts.
Abstract
The four Appendices from the Survey of Metropolitan Juvenile Courts conducted by the National Center for State Courts include: (1) Code Book; (2) Glossary; (3) Composite Responses; and (4) Outcome Measures Code Book. Appendix A, the Code Book, provides, by question, the instructions used by the interviewers as they administered the questionnaire and by the coders as they combined responses into composites. Appendix B is a glossary of words and phrases used in the questionnaire. It provides the definitions used by the interviewers to clarify questions for responders. Appendix C, Composite Responses, presents the response of the 150 courts to each of the 78 questions asked in the survey. It is the databases from which the typology was constructed. Appendix A and B provide the necessary information for fully understanding the Composite Responses, Appendix C. Appendix D, Outcome Measures Code Book is presented but not described within this report.