Federal Justice Statistics Program : Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases in District Court - Pending, 2014 / United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 36712.

ICPSR ; 36712

Federal Justice Statistics Program Data Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2017-03-22.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: Intranet.

data file

Summary:

The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in United States District Court before or during fiscal year 2014 and still pending as of year-end. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States District Courts' (AOUSC) criminal file. Defendants in criminal cases may be either individuals or corporations. There is one record for each defendant in each case filed. Included in the records are data from court proceedings and offense codes for up to five offenses charged at the time the case was filed. (The most serious charge at termination may differ from the most serious charge at case filing, due to plea bargaining or action of the judge or jury.) In a case with multiple charges against the defendant, a "most serious" offense charge is determined by a hierarchy of offenses based on statutory maximum penalties associated with the charges. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF" variables, that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Tables 4.1-4.5 and 5.1-5.6. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by Abt and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by Abt.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36712.v1

Contents:

Dataset

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2018-06-14.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.