Description & Citation--Study No. 20120

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

20120

Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, 2006

United States Sentencing Commission

United States Sentencing Commission. Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, 2006. ICPSR20120-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-09-28. doi:10.3886/ICPSR20120.v2

Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences Series

Scope of Study

This collection contains information on federal criminal cases sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The data files include all cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2005, and September 30, 2006, and were assessed as constitutional. Constitutionality compares each case's sentencing date, circuit, district, and judge to provide uniformity in reporting the cases. In 1999, the United States Sentencing Commission added more variables from its databases to this collection, so the data are now provided in two files. Several variables iterate to include multiple occurrences of the same event. Part 1, Main Data, includes all noniterating variables plus the first two occurrences of each iterating variable. Over 99 percent of the valid data is captured in these two variables for most sets of iterations. Part 2, Supplementary Data, includes the remaining iterations.

convictions (law), criminal histories, defendants, federal courts, judicial decisions, offenses, sentencing, sentencing guidelines

United States

• 2005-10-01--2006-09-30

• 2005--2006

All cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2005, and September 30, 2006, and were assessed as constitutional.

event/transaction data

Starting with the 1999 data, ICPSR archives MONITORING OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL SENTENCES under a new study number for each year of data. Data for the years 1993-1998 are archived in MONITORING OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL SENTENCES, 1987-1998 (ICPSR 9317).

Methodology

Federal Probation Sentence and Supervision Information System, presentence reports, judgments of conviction, statements of reasons, plea agreements, guideline worksheets

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:

• Created variable labels and/or value labels.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

2007-09-28

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.

• 2011-03-08 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.

• DS1: Main Data
• DS2: Supplemental Data