Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1983 - Bureau of Justice ...

are data on passenger screening activities and summaries of otherongoing preventive measures. This particular report covers the periodJuly I to Dec. 31, 1982, and provides mare detailed descriptions ofcriminal acts against civil oviation committed during that period. Thetrend tables span various combinations of the years from 1930 to 1982depending on the availability af data.* * *U.S. Department of Transpartatian. National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration. Digest of State Alcohol-Highway SafetyRelated Legislation, January 1983. Washington, D.C.: U.S.Department of Transpartation, 1983.Contents:320 pages, 8 tablesDates of data presented:1982Periodicity:Special5O..RCEBOO< tables:1.77-1.80This digest provides a detailed description of the variousstatutory provisions related to alcohol use and highway safety. I.t isan upda~e af an earlier National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationpublication titled Alcahol and Highway Safety Laws: A NatianalOverview, 1981. The data were collected through an examination ofthe statutory codes of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, andPuerto Rico. Statutory provisions are examined in the following areas:billod alcohol concentration levels as evidence in court; preliminarybreath test and implied consent laws; chemical tests authorized underimplied consent laws; provisions related to adjudication af drivingwhile intoxicated charges; sanctions for refusal to submit to a blaodalcohol concentration test; sanctians following a conviction for drivingwhile Intoxicated related offenses; laws requiring a blood alcoholconcentratian test on persons killed in traffic crashes; minimum legaldrinking age; liability of owners of drinking establishments far servingalcohol to intoxicated patrons and to minors; and open container laws.* * *U.S. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco andFirearms. Explosives Incidents, 1981. Washington, D.C.: U.S.Government Printing Office, 1982.Contents:52 pages, 29 tables, 10 figuresDates of data presented:Primary period: 1981Trend tables: 1980 and 1981Periodicity:Annual5O..RCEBOO< tables:3.91-3.93This report provides tables and figures on and narrativedescriptions of criminal bombings and other explosives incidents thatwere reported to and investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Toboccoand Firearms. This, however, does not necessarily include all thebombings and explosives incidents that mar have accurred in theUlited States during these years.The repart is divided into four sections. The first sectionanalyzes the bombing incidents. Data are presented on thecharacteristics, targets, motives, victims, property damage, types ofdevices, geographic location, and peak occurrences of known bombings.The second section describes stolen and recavered explosives. Dataare presented on the amount, geographic location, and peakoccurrences of known incidents. The third section analyzes arsonincidents investigated by the Bureau.Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1983Data are presented on injury,property damage, targets, motives, and types of fire accelerants. Thefinal section provides descriptive narratives on selected explosivesincidents for the reporting year.* * '*U.S. Department of the Treasury. Internal Revenue Service. AnnualReport of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1978.Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.Contents:119 pages, 69 tables, 9 figures, I appendixDates of dota presented:Primary period: fiscal year 1978Trend tables: fiS~al years 1940-78Periodicity:AnnualSOlRCEBOO< tables:5.31-5.32This report details the activities of the Internal Revenue Serviceand presents data on a wide variety of subjects related to the incometax system. Data are reported on tax returns filed, revenuecollections, aUditing of tax returns, tax penalties, tax fraudinvestigations, tax litigation, and criminal prosecutions for tax-relatedcases.* * *U.S, Department of the Treasury. U.S. Customs Service. CustomsU.S.A. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1982.Contents:37 pages, 7 tablesDates of data presented:Primary period: fiscal year 1982Trend tables: fiscal years 1978-82Periodicity:AnnualSOlRCEBOO< tables:4.22, 4.24This document describes the activities of the U.S. CustomsService for fiscal year 1982. The report discusses the agency's rale incollecting revenue from imparts and enfarcing customs and relatedlaws. Data are presented in such areas as Customs' collections byregion, district, and category; carriers and persons entering the UlitedStates; merchandise entries, and seizures of property, norc.)tics, onddongerous drugs for violation of laws enforced by the Customs Service.* * *Vereb, Thomas S., and Hutzler, John L. Juveniles as Criminals:1981 Statutes Analysis, Preliminary Draft. Pittsburgh: NationalCenter for Juvenil e Justi ce, 198 I • IContents:3 tablesDates of data presented:1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982Periodicity:Special5O..RCEBOO< tables:1.67, 1.68This docul11ent is an update of an earlier document providing a •summary of States' provisions governing waiver procedures. Infonmotionon both transfel from juvenile court and to juvenile court Is reviewed.The data were I;ompiled through a survey of statutes and courts' rulesof the 50 State:s and the District of Columbia. The survey wasconducted by "he Notional Center for Juvenile Justice, the ResearchDivision of the Notional Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges,under a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and DelinquencyPrevention. ThE i .. formatlon is current as of 1979 (5 States), 1980 (J 9States), 198123 States), anr! 1982 (4 States); it covers prOVisionssuch as the ages at which transfer is allowed, restrictions on who maybe waifed--due to crime type, mental illness, or retardation, theright's provided at hearings on transfer, and criteria for waiverdecisions.* * *Wolford, Bruce I. and Littlefield, John F. "An Examination of Post­Secondary Institutions that Provide Educational Programs for theIncarcerated." Paper presented at the 1983 meeting of the Academyof Criminal Justice Sciences, Son Antonio, Texas, 25 March 1983.Contents:18 pages, 8 tablesDates of data presented:1976 and 1982Periodicity:Special5O..RCEBOCl