Description & Citation--Study No. 20101
Bibliographic Description |
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Study No.: |
20101 |
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Title: |
Monitoring of Federal Criminal Convictions and Sentences: Appeals Data, 2006 |
Principal Investigator(s): |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
United States Sentencing Commission. Monitoring of Federal Criminal Convictions and Sentences: Appeals Data, 2006. ICPSR20101-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-09-26. doi:10.3886/ICPSR20101.v2 |
Series: |
Monitoring of Federal Criminal Convictions and Sentences: Appeals Data Series |
Scope of Study |
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Summary: |
This collection contains appellate information from the 12 circuit courts of appeals of the United States. From the Clerk of the Court of each court of appeals, the United States Sentencing Commission compiled the final opinions and orders, both published and unpublished, in all criminal appeals for the time period surveyed. The Commission also collected habeas corpus decisions even though they are technically civil matters, because such cases often involve sentencing issues. Both the "case" and the "defendant" are used in this collection as units of analysis. Each case comprises individual records representing all codefendants participating in a consolidated appeal. Each defendant's record comprises the sentencing-related issues corresponding to that particular defendant. |
Subject Terms: |
appeal procedures, appellate courts, convictions (law), court cases, criminal histories, defendants, federal courts, habeas corpus, judicial decisions, legal appeals, offenses, sentence review, sentencing |
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Time Period: |
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Date of Collection: |
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Universe: |
All appeals cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission and assessed as constitutional. |
Data Types: |
event/transaction data |
Data Collection Notes: |
Starting with the 1999 data, ICPSR archives MONITORING OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS AND SENTENCES: APPEALS DATA under a new study number for each year of data. Data for the years 1993-1998 are archived as ICPSR 6559. |
Methodology |
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Data Source: |
Final opinions and orders, both published and unpublished, and habeas corpus decisions from the 12 circuit courts of appeals of the United States. |
Extent of Processing: |
All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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Access and Availability |
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Note: |
Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
Original ICPSR Release: |
2007-09-26 |
Restrictions: |
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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