A technical appendix for the study 'Determinants of Civil Rights Filings in Federal District Court by Jail and Prison Inmates'. Margo Schlanger authored this dataset, which was last updated on July 2, 2026. The dataset likely contains supplementary data or analysis for the referenced legal research paper.
Use Cases
- Analyze determinants of civil rights litigation based on the study's theoretical framework.
- Replicate statistical models from the associated research paper using the provided appendix data.
- Study trends in federal court filings by jail and prison inmates.
Strengths
- Authored by a named researcher, Margo Schlanger, providing academic credibility.
- Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-07-02 16:00:00.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Margo Schlanger Dataverse
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-02 16:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United States federal district courts (inferred from title)