National Prosecutors Survey, 1990 / United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9579.

National Prosecutors Survey Series (Series) ; 9579.

ICPSR ; 9579

National Prosecutors Survey Series ; 9579

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prosecution--United States.

Prosecution.

United States.

Criminal statistics--United States.

Criminal statistics.

Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States--Statistics.

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

Statistics.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2005-11-04.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This survey queried chief prosecuting attorneys of state prosecutorial districts (district attorneys, commonwealth attorneys, etc.) about the prosecution of felony cases within their jurisdictions during 1989-1990. Questions regarding the prefiling, filing, and pretrial stages of felony prosecution asked about policies limiting the time for plea negotiations, the role of the grand jury, how felony cases were screened, and the amount of time that usually elapsed before the prosecutor was notified of persons arrested for a felony. Prosecutors were also asked to report the percentage of court case filings by grand jury indictment, by information following a preliminary hearing, or by other means, and the percentage of felony cases processed by a court of general jurisdiction, a felony court, or other court(s). The trial stage of felony prosecution was covered by questions about the conduct of voir dire examination of prospective jurors, limits on time allowed to commence trial, the number of permitted peremptory challenges, who was responsible for notifying government witnesses to appear in court, whether the prosecution had the right to request a jury trial, whether the jurisdiction's felony court discouraged motions on trial date that would delay trial, and whether the felony court normally granted a continuance on trial date to permit additional time for plea negotiations. Questions on felony sentencing and appeals asked whether the prosecutor was usually present at felony sentence proceedings, whether the judge usually ordered a presentence report, whether victim information was requested or provided by the court, whether the prosecutor normally recommended a type or duration of sentence to be imposed, whether police, victims, or witnesses were notified of the disposition of felony cases, whether the prosecutor was involved in various types of appellate work, and whe... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09579

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

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

Start: 1988; and end: 1990.

OCLC:

61163055

Access Restriction:

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