ICPSR Metadata record for National Pretrial Reporting Program, 1988-1989 ICPSR 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/). National Pretrial Reporting Program, 1988-1989 Pretrial Services Resource Center Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-11-04 9508 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09508.v2
This data collection effort was undertaken to determine whether accurate and comprehensive pretrial data can be collected at the local level and subsequently aggregated at the state and federal levels. The data contained in this collection provide a picture of felony defendants' movements through the criminal courts. Offenses were recoded into 14 broad categories that conform to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' crime definitions. Other variables include sex, race, age, prior record, relationship to criminal justice system at the time of the offense, pretrial release, detention decisions, court appearances, pretrial rearrest, adjudication, and sentencing. The unit of analysis is the defendant.
 UniverseScheme09508 National Pretrial Reporting Program Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00130. Organization09508_1 84-BJ-CX-K003 ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.IV case processing courts criminal histories criminal justice system defendants disposition (legal) felons felony courts offenses pretrial detentions pretrial hearings pretrial procedures pretrial release sentencing United States 1988 1989 event/transaction data Felony court filings during February 1988 in the 75 most populous counties in the United States. In a two-stage sampling process, the first stage was a stratified sample to select 39 of the 75 most populous counties, and the second stage was a systematic sample of defendants based on felony filings within each selected county. National Pretrial Reporting Program official data collection instrument 1988-02 1989-01

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:

  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Per agreement with Pretrial Services Resource Center, ICPSR distributes the data file without the statute number variables.