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Description & Citation--Study No. 2038 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 2038 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02038 |
| Title: | State Court Processing Statistics, 1990-2004: Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Series: | State Court Processing Statistics Series |
| Bibliographic Citation: | U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. STATE COURT PROCESSING STATISTICS, 1990-2004: FELONY DEFENDANTS IN LARGE URBAN COUNTIES [Computer file]. Conducted by Pretrial Services Resource Center [producer], 2007. ICPSR02038-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-11-28. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | Originally known as the National Pretrial Reporting Program, the State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) program tracks felony cases filed in May of a given year until final disposition or until one year has elapsed from the date of filing. This collection presents data on felony cases filed in approximately 40 of the nation's 75 most populous counties in even numbered years from 1990-2004. These 75 counties account for more than a third of the United States population and approximately half of all reported crimes. The cases from these 40 jurisdictions are weighted to represent all felony filings during the month of May in the 75 most populous counties. Data were collected on arrest charges, demographic characteristics, criminal history, pretrial release and detention, adjudication, and sentencing. |
| Subject Term(s): | case processing, court cases, criminal histories, defendants, disposition (legal), felons, felony courts, pretrial detention, pretrial release, sentencing, state courts, statistical data |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 1990; 1992; 1994; 1996; 1998; 2000; 2002; 2004 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1990; 1992; 1994; 1996; 1998; 2000; 2002; 2004 |
| Universe: | Felony court filings during the month of May in even numbered years from 1990 to 2004 in the 75 most populous counties in the United States. |
| Data Type: | event/transaction data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) Part 1, 1990-2004 Cumulative Data, has its own codebook, which is separate from the codebook for individual-year data. Parts 6, 7, and 8, 1998-2004 Data, also have their own codebooks. Parts 2-5, the 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 individual-year data files, share the same codebook. (2) Part 6, 1998 Data, contains over 100 new variables that were created by the principal investigator. (3) Parts 2-5, the 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 data files, were created from the 1990-1996 Cumulative Data file. (4) This version of the data supersedes all previous National Pretrial Reporting Program files. (5) Variable names and value labels have been made consistent across the 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004 files. All years use "8" codes for not applicable and "9" codes for missing data. Since some variables did not exist for all years, there may be instances in which all cases are missing for a variable within a given year. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | In a two-stage sampling process, the first stage was a stratified sample to select 40 of the 75 most populous counties, and the second stage was a systematic sample of defendants based on felony filings within each selected county. |
| Data Source: | national, state, and local agencies |
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: | 1998-09-11 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2007-11-28. |
| 2007-11-28 - The cumulative data for 1990 to 2004 were submitted by the principal investigator. Part 1 has been modified. | |
| 2006-03-17 - The 2002 data were submitted by the principal investigator. Part 1 has been modified, and Part 8 has been added. | |
| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. | |
| 2004-05-20 - Data were added to the collection for 2000 (Part 7, 2000 Data) and the cumulative data file was updated to also include the 2000 data (Part 1, 1990-2000 Cumulative Data). The title of the study has been revised to reflect the range of years the data were collected instead of individual years. | |
| 2004-05-20 - Documentation has been revised for Part 7, 2000 Data, and for Part 1, 1990-2000 Cumulative Data. | |
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