National Assessment Program Survey of Criminal Justice Personnel in the United States, 1986
Description
This survey probed the needs and problems facing local
criminal justice practitioners. Within each sampled county, survey
questionnaires were distributed to the police chief of the largest
city, the sheriff, the jail administrator, the prosecutor, the chief
trial court judge, the trial court administrator (where applicable),
and probation and parole agency heads. Although the general topics
covered in the questionnaires are similar, specific items are not
repeated across the questionnaires, except for those given to the
sheriffs and the police chiefs. The sheriffs surveyed were those with
law enforcement responsibilities, so the questions asked of the police
chiefs and the sheriffs were identical. The questionnaires were
tailored to each group of respondents, and dealt with five general
areas: (1) background characteristics, including staff size, budget
totals, and facility age, (2) criminal justice system problems, (3)
prison crowding, (4) personnel issues such as training needs and
programs, and (5) operations and procedures including management,
management information, and the specific operations in which the
respondents were involved. In some cases, sets of question items were
grouped into question batteries that dealt with specific topic areas
(e.g., staff recruitment, judicial training, and number of personnel).
For example, the Staff Recruitment battery items in the Probation and
Parole Questionnaire asked respondents to use a 4 point scale to
indicate the seriousness of each of the following problems: low
salaries, poor image of corrections work, high entrance requirements,
location of qualified staff, shortage of qualified minority
applicants, and hiring freezes.
Resources
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ICPSR09923.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09923.v1 |
Tags
- criminal-justice-system
- correctional-facilities
- law-enforcement-agencies
- courts
- personnel
- prison-administration
- budgets
- police-departments
- personnel-management
- training
- prison-overcrowding