National Police Custody Survey, August 1992

This study is the second in a series of police custody surveys recommended by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and provides information on those being taken into custody and held in police cells or related secure police detention facilities.

Police filling out surveys were asked to provide the following details on detainees - age, sex, time of lodgement and release from cell, reason for detainment and release and whether the detainee is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, researchers and other users should be aware that material in this dataset may contain material that is considered offensive. The data have been retained because it represents an evidential record of language, beliefs or other cultural situations at a point in time.

In line with normal ADA policy, variables (such as postcode) which could possibly be used to identify individuals have been removed or recoded from the public data file. Much of the original data, however, have been made publicy available by other parties, and if researchers would like to access the original data files, they can contact ADA and make a case for gaining access to these data.

Dataset ID:

au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00967

Principal Investigator:

McDonald, D.

Subject:

Australian studies

Law, Crime, Courts

Legal systems, legal services, legal aid

Keywords:

Law enforcement - Criminal Law and procedure - Pretrial procedures

Law enforcement - Police

Document Description

The Document Description consists of bibliographic information describing the DDI-compliant document itself as a whole.

Document Title:

National Police Custody Survey, August 1992

Document ID:

au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.00967

Production

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Production Place:

Australian Data Archive 18 Balmain Crescent Canberra ACT 0200

Production Date:

31 Dec 1996

Version Statement

Version:

Version 2

Date:

19 Mar 2010

Notes:

This version of the metadata was created when the data were made available on Nesstar.

Bibliographic Citation:

McDonald, D. National Police Custody Survey, AUGUST 1992 [computer file]. Canberra: Australian Data Archive, The Australian National University, 2010.

Study Description

The Study Description consists of information about the data collection, study, or compilation that the DDI-compliant documentation file describes. This section includes information about how the study should be cited, who collected or compiled the data, who distributes the data, keywords about the content of the data, summary (abstract) of the content of the data, data collection methods and processing, etc. Note that some content of the Study Description's Citation -- e.g., Responsibility Statement -- may be identical to that of the Documentation Citation. This is usually the case when the producer of a data collection also produced the print or electronic codebook for that data collection.

Production

Producers:

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Distribution

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Distributor:

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Contact Persons:

David McDonald Australian Institute of Criminology GPO Box 2944 Canberra ACT 2601

Affiliation:

Australian Institute of Criminology

Depositor:

David McDonald, Australian Institute of Criminology, GPO Box 2944 Canberra ACT 2601

Affiliation:

Australian Institute of Criminology

Deposit Date:

Thu, 05/01/1997

Version Statement

Version:

Version 2

Responsibility Statement:

ADA

Date:

Fri, 03/19/2010

Study Information

Time Period Covered:

Sat, 08/01/1992 to Mon, 08/31/1992

Research Collection Date:

Sat, 08/01/1992 to Mon, 08/31/1992

Country:

Australia

Geographic Area:

National

Geographic Unit:

State

Unit of Analysis:

Instance of police custody

Universe:

All people taken into police custody and held in police cells in Australia during the month of August 1992. The sample population includes those already in prison cells at the commencement of the survey.

Kind of Data:

census data

Methodology

Time Method:

trend study

Sampling Procedure:

no sampling (total universe)

Mode of Data Collection:

forms completed by police station staff

Type of Research Instrument:

Structured

Weighting:

None

Cleaning Operations:

The data were checked by the archive for missing variable and value labels, out of range values and wild codes, logical inconsistencies, and confidentiality. Users should note that there are some out-of-range values for some variables relating to times (eg negative times for "Period in hours" and "Period in").

Response Rate:

no sampling (total universe)

Class of the Study:

Level 2

Data Access

Access Conditions:

The depositor may be informed (by the archive) of use being made of the data, in order to comment on that use and make contact with colleagues of similar interests.

Citation Requirements:

All manuscripts based in whole or in part on these data should:

(i) identify the data and original investigators by using the recommended bibliographic reference to the data file

(ii) acknowledge the Australian Data Archive and, where the data are made available through the Australian Data Archive by another archive, acknowledge that archive;

McDonald, D. National Police Custody Survey, AUGUST 1992 [computer file]. Canberra: Australian Data Archive, The Australian National University, 2010.

(iii) declare that those who carried out the original analysis and collection of the data bear no responsibility for the further analysis or interpretation of them.

Deposit Requirements:

In order to assemble essential information about archival resources and to facilitate the exchange of information about users research activities, individuals are required to email ADA (ada@anu.edu.au) with the bibliographic details and, where available, online links to any published work (including journal articles, books or book chapters, conference presentations, theses or any other publications or outputs) based wholly or in part on the material.

Disclaimer:

Use of the material is solely at the user's risk. The depositor, The Australian National University and the Australian Data Archive shall not be held responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the material supplied.

Other Study Materials

Related Publications:

Report McDonald, D. et al. Implementation of Commonwealth Government responses to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. First Annual Report 1992-1993 Commonwealth of Australia 1994

Report McDonald, D. Deaths in Custody Australia. National Police Custody Service 1992: Preliminary Report