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Developing and Validating a Brief Jail Mental Health Screen in Maryland and N...
The goal of this research project was to develop an efficient mental health screen that would aid in the early identification of severe mental illnesses and other acute... -
Survey of Inmates in Local Jails Series
Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics Formerly Survey of Jail Inmates.This collection provides nationally representative data on persons held prior to trial and on those... -
Crime and Mental Disorder, 1972
The purpose of this data collection was to explore the relationship between crime and mental disorder among jail inmates. Three sample groups were studied: jail inmates who had... -
National Corrections Reporting Program, 1984
This study was conducted to provide a consistent and comprehensive description of convicted persons' entrance into and departure from correctional custody and correctional... -
National Jail Census Series
Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics The National Jail Census was conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Excluded from the census... -
Profiling Inmates in the Los Angeles County Jail, 1996-1998
By 1996 it became apparent that the Los Angeles county jails faced a serious overcrowding problem. Two possible solutions to the problem were to build more jail capacity or to... -
Annual Survey of Jails Data Series
Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics The Annual Survey of Jails, formerly titled National Survey of Jails, is the only data collection effort that provides an annual... -
Suicide and Risk Behaviors in an Incarcerated American Indian Population in t...
This study was initiated by the administrator of a county jail in the Northern Plains of the United States who was concerned about the incidence of suicide behaviors in that... -
Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country Series
Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics This series was begun in 1998 by the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and was collected as a component of the Annual...