Incarceration history cluster
Data Set Specification Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 398973 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 |
DSS type: | Data Element Cluster |
Scope: | These data elements are used in conjunction with each other to provide information on a prison entrant's incarceration history. |
Collection and usage attributes | |||||||
Guide for use: | The Incarceration history cluster provides information on the total number of times a prison entrant has been in custody in a juvenile detention centre or a prison. This is achieved by the combination of the two data elements: Prison entrant—type of corrective services facility, code N, and Prison entrant—number of times in prison or juvenile detention. The Incarceration history cluster describes data on:
As this data cluster aims to collect the prison entrant's previous history of incarceration, both items may be applicable to the one prisoner. That is, a prisoner may have previously been detained in both a juvenile detention centre (as a juvenile offender) and then in a prison (as an adult offender). | ||||||
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Collection methods: | Information on a person's incarceration history is collected during the reception assessment on the National Prisoner Health Census Prison Entrants form. | ||||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||||
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||||
Relational attributes | |||||||
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Incarceration history cluster Health!, Standard 28/04/2016 See also Prison entrant—age at first detention, total years NN Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 See also Prison entrant—first time in prison or juvenile detention indicator, yes/no code N Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 | ||||||
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prison entrants DSS Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 Conditional obligation: Conditional on having previously been in custody |
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