Free Press, Fair Trial Data

• NCJ Number: 96107
• Author(s): S S Nagel; T Eimermann; K Reinbolt
• Date Published: 1977
• Length: 24 pages
• Corporate Author: University of Illinois
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

After a brief study description, this codebook presents the questionnaire and coding used for a data set resulting from a study of pretrial publicity.

Abstract

Data came from 600 mail questionnaires sent in 1970 to newspaper editors, police chiefs, prosecuting attorneys, and defense attorneys from a sample of 166 cities across the country. of 166 cities across the country. The questions focused on the degree of pretrial press publicity on pending criminal cases; relevant attitudes, especially concerning ways of reducing the adverse effects of pretrial publicity while still informing the public; and prevailing procedures by editors, police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges.