Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1982 : California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Minnesota, New York, Virgin Islands, Virginia / United States Department of Justice. Bureau ofJustice Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 8408.

Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) Series (Series) ; 8408.

ICPSR ; 8408

Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) Series ; 8408

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal statistics--United States.

Criminal statistics.

United States.

Arrest.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2005-08-08.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1985.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) studies are designed to collect information by tracking adult offenders from the point of entry into the criminal justice system (typically by arrest) through final disposition, regardless of whether the offender is convicted or acquitted. Information is provided on arrest, police action, prosecutor action, level of charges, charges filed by the prosecutor, type of counsel, pretrial status, type of trial, sentence type, and sentence length. This allows researchers to examine how the criminal justice system processes offenders, to measure the changing volume of offenders moving through the different segments of the criminal justice system, to calculate processing time intervals between major decision-making events, and to assess the changing structure of the offender population.

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.