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National Corrections Reporting Program, 1995 (ICPSR 2194)

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. 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, released from prison, or released from parole in 1995. 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

Access Notes

  • 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.;

Dataset(s)

DS0:  Study-Level Files
DS1:  Prison Admissions Data
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DS2:  Prison Releases Data
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DS3:  Parole Releases Data
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Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Corrections Reporting Program, 1995. ICPSR02194-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-04-23. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02194.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02194.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

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

  • 1995

Date of Collection:  

  • 1995-01-01--1995-12-31

Universe:   All people admitted to prison, released from prison, or discharged from parole in 1995 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 38 states, the Federal Prison System, 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.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:  1998-07-28

Version History:

  • 2010-04-23 The entire NCRP series is being re-released in restricted format.
  • 2006-03-30 File SP2194.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
  • 2006-03-30 File SA2194.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
  • 2006-03-30 File CB2194.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
  • 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.

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