Court Workforce Racial Diversity and Racial Justice in Criminal Case Outcomes in the United States, 2000-2005 Ward, Geoff Farrell, Amy Rousseau, Danielle case processing court cases court system courtroom proceedings courts district courts federal courts judicial decisions justice labor force race race relations sentencing ICPSR.XVII.E RCMD.I NACJD.IV The purpose of this study was to determine whether workgroup racial composition is related to sentence outcomes generally, and racial differences in sentencing in particular, across federal districts. This collection contains information on federal court district characteristics. Data include information about the social context, court context, and diversity of the courtroom workgroup for 90 federal judicial districts provided by 50 judicial district context variables. 2009-06-25 aggregate data census/enumeration data 25423 10.3886/ICPSR25423.v1 Data sources include the 2000 Census, the 2000 Uniform Crime Reports, the Federal Court Management Statistics and the Judicial Business of the United States Courts for 2000 and 2001, which are compiled annually by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Federal Judicial Center?s Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, FedStats, and the Administrative Offices of the United States Trial Courts. United States 2000--2005 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).