National Corrections Reporting Program, 2003 [United States] (ICPSR 20741)
Alternate Title: NCRP
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Summary:
The purpose of this study was to gather data on prisoners entering and leaving the custody or supervision of state and federal authorities. Data refer to prisoners who were admitted to prison (Part 1), released from prison (Part 2), or released from parole (Part 3) in 2003. Variables include incarceration history, current offenses, and total time served. Background information on individuals includes year of birth, sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, and educational attainment.
Series: National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) Series
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One or more files in this study are not available for download due to special restrictions; consult the restrictions note to learn more. Additional information can also be found in the Use Agreement.
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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Citation
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Corrections Reporting Program, 2003 [United States]. ICPSR20741-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-04-26. doi:10.3886/ICPSR20741.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20741.v1
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Funding
This survey was funded by:
- United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: correctional facilities, correctional facilities (juveniles), correctional system, demographic characteristics, federal correctional facilities, jail inmates, juvenile offenders, national crime statistics (USA), offenders, offenses, parole, prison inmates, probation, state correctional facilities
Smallest Geographic Unit: county
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 2003
Date of Collection:
- 2004-01-01--2004-03-31
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: All persons admitted to prison, released from prison, or discharged from parole in 2003 in the United States.
Data Types: event/transaction data
Data Collection Notes:
Conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
Methodology
Sample: All persons incarcerated in state prisons in 41 states, and the California Youth Authority.
Data Source:
Official prison records of prisoner population movement.
Extent of Processing: 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 consistency checks.
- Standardized missing values.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 2007-08-30
Version History:
- 2010-04-26 The entire NCRP series is being re-released in restricted format.
- 2007-09-17 Corrections were made to the codebook to reflect proper NCRP state contact information and BJS Processing Notes.
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