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Description & Citation--Study No. 8648

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8648
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08648
 
Title:Six-Year Follow-up Study on Career Criminals, 1970-1976: [United States]
 
Principal Investigator(s):Brian Forst
 
  William Rhodes
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice.
 
Grant Number:JYFRP-81-C-0126
 
Bibliographic Citation:Forst, Brian, and William Rhodes. SIX-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY ON CAREER CRIMINALS, 1970-1976: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. Washington, DC: Institute for Law and Social Research [producer], 1986. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08648
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The major objective of the Six-year Follow-up Study on Career Criminals was to provide data describing the effects of sentencing decisions on the behavior of career criminals. A second purpose was to develop programs to target career offenders at the time of sentencing who were likely to commit crimes in the future and incarcerate them accordingly. The data collection includes detailed demographic background and complete prior and follow-up criminal records for each selected offender. There are two types of data sets in the study, the PSI data set based on pre-sentence investigation (PSI) reports, and the Parole data set based on Parole Commission records. The PSI data set describes each offender's demographic background, criminal history, and court entry/exit history. The Parole data set contains information about the offender's background characteristics, prior records of arrests, convictions, dispositions and sentences, and follow-up records for a period of six years. Arrests are described in terms of arrest date, offense charge, disposition, result of sentence, and months incarcerated.
 
Subject Term(s):arrests, court records, crime, criminal justice system, demographic characteristics, parole systems, sentencing, socioeconomic indicators, United States
 
Time Period:1970 - 1976
 
Date(s) of Collection:1981
 
Universe:Defendants convicted of federal offenses in 1969-1970 and sentenced to up to a year in prison, given probation, or fined, and federal offenders released from prison during the first six months of l970.
 
Data Type:event/transaction data
 
Data Collection Notes:The PSI Rap Sheet and Parole Rap Sheet files are structured hierarchically with a varying number of records per offender. The first physical record corresponding to an offender is an identification record containing 7 variables. Each of the subsequent records for that offender represents a single arrest. The maximum number of arrest records per offender is 31 for the PSI Rap Sheet file and 53 for the Parole Rap Sheet file. There are 17 variables per arrest record. The PSI Rap Sheet file contains a total of 6,430 records representing 1,320 offenders. The Parole Rap Sheet file has 7,257 records representing 659 offenders. The PSI data files and Parole data files can be linked to the corresponding Rap Sheet files using the appropriate Link file.
 

Methodology

Data Source:(1) pre-sentence investigation (PSI) reports, (2) Parole Commission records, (3) Federal Bureau of Prisons records, (4) Administrative Office of the Court records, (5) the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Computerized Criminal History system
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1987-05-19
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18.
 
  2006-01-18 - File CB8648.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: PSI Data
  • DS2: Parole Data
  • DS3: PSI Rap Sheet
  • DS4: Parole Rap Sheet
  • DS5: PSI-Rap Link
  • DS6: Parole-Rap Link
 

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