National Indigent Criminal Defense Survey

The survey was used to examine the nature and scope of legal aid, public defenders, and other legal service delivery to the poor. The agency arranged for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research to prepare the data and documentation for public use.

This series contains basic information about the legal defense offered to needy citizens in the United State s. There are three files with county level, preliminary program, and conflict / unavailability program data. The files include data on aspects of criminal justice administration such as system types, funding sources, costs, activities within the courts, cases, crimes, and the caseloads of defense programs for the poor.