Conducted during 1999-2000, represented the first systematic study of indigent criminal defense services by BJS since the 1980s. The study collected indigent criminal defense data at the trial level for 1) the 100 most populous counties in the United States, 2) 197 counties outside the 100 most populous counties, and 3) States that entirely funded criminal indigent defense services. Information obtained includes number of program staff, program expenditures, and types of cases received by indigent criminal defense programs.
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State-Funded Indigent Defense Services, 1999 Presents findings from data collected as part of the 1999 National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems in the 21 States where the State government provides virtually all of the funding for indigent defense services. | |
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Indigent Defense Services in Large Counties, 1999 Describes the methods by which criminal indigent defense is delivered in the Nation's 100 most populous counties. | |
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Indigent Defense This report of presented selected findings drawn from various BJS surveys contains information related to the indigent defense for criminal defendants. | |
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Criminal Defense Systems - A National Survey A survey conducted in 1982 produced national baseline data on the types of public defense systems, their funding sources, their costs, and their caseloads. | |
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