Metadata record for National Judicial Reporting Program, 1988

National Judicial Reporting Program, 1988 United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2012-12-07 9449 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09449.v2

This data collection tabulates the number of persons convicted of felonies in state courts and describes the sentences these individuals received. Data were collected from state courts and state prosecutors in 100 counties of the United States. The collection contains sociodemographic information such as age, race, and sex of the felon. Types of offenses committed include homicide, rape, and robbery. Adjudication variables referring to the process between arrest and sentencing are also a part of this dataset. Data can be analyzed on a national level or by the individual counties.

UniverseScheme09449 National Judicial Reporting Program Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00077. NACJD.XIV ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.IV arrests assault auto theft burglary case processing convictions (law) counties demographic characteristics drug law offenses felony courts felony offenses homicide larceny manslaughter murder rape robbery sentencing state courts United States 1988 1988 event/transaction data Sentenced felons in the United States. A two-stage stratified cluster sampling design was employed. At the first stage, 300 counties were selected from the 3,109 total counties in the nation. At the second stage, a systematic sample of felons sentenced for murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, felony larceny/motor vehicle theft, drug trafficking, and other offenses was selected from each county's official records. official court records 1989-02 1989-12

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.
Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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The data are restricted from general dissemination. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a restricted data Use Agreement form and specify the reasons for the request. A copy of the Restricted Data Use Agreement form can be requested by calling 800-999-0960. Researchers can also download this form as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file from the download page associated with this dataset. Completed forms should be returned to: Director, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, P.O. Box 1248, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, or by fax: 734-647-8200

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The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu 2012-12-07 ICPSR 2012-12-07 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures. 2005-11-04 ICPSR 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. 1997-05-16 ICPSR 1997-05-16 Minor corrections were made to the codebook for this collection. StudyUnit09449

Users wishing to reconstruct figures in the Bureau of Justice Statistics report based on these data will need to use UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA [UNITED STATES]: DETAILED ARREST AND OFFENSE DATA FOR 321 COUNTIES, 1988 (ICPSR 9470).

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Conducted by United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.