Survey Data on Public Trust in Prosecutors

Replication data supports a Journal of Law and Courts article analyzing public trust in prosecutor's offices. The archive includes original data and Stata code for replicating the published analyses. Joshua Baldwin and colleagues authored the study, with the data last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze relationships between demographic variables and trust_rating for prosecutors.
• Model prosecutor_approval scores using predictors like political_affiliation or prior_experience_with_courts.
• Replicate regression analyses from the source article using the provided Stata code and survey_response data.
• Examine variance in public_confidence metrics across different respondent subgroups.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Law and Courts.
• Includes complete Stata code for replicating all original analyses.
• Last metadata update was March 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The sample size and number of survey respondents are unknown.
• Specific column names, data types, and the presence of missing data are not documented.
• Geographic coverage of the survey sample is unspecified, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Journal of Law and Courts Dataverse, authored by Joshua Baldwin.

Collection Method

Likely collected via public opinion survey, as implied by the study of public trust.

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