Federal Justice Statistics Program: Suspects in Federal Criminal Matters in the United States, 1997 (ICPSR 24043)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Summary:
The data contain records of suspects in federal criminal matters received by United States attorneys or filed before the United States magistrates during fiscal year 1997. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central System file. Records include suspects in criminal matters, and are limited to suspects whose matters were not declined immediately by the United States attorneys. According to the EOUSA, the United States attorneys conduct approximately 95 percent of the prosecutions handled by the Department of Justice. The Central System data contain variables from the original EOUSA files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF" variables, that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Table 1.1. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security Number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.
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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. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Justice Statistics Program: Suspects in Federal Criminal Matters in the United States, 1997. ICPSR24043-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-08. doi:10.3886/ICPSR24043.v2
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24043.v2
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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: federal courts, offenders, offenses, prosecution
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 1996-10-01--1997-09-30
Date of Collection:
- 1996-10-01--1997-09-30
Unit of Observation: federal suspects
Universe: Suspects in federal criminal matters received by United States attorneys or filed before United States magistrates during fiscal year 1997.
Data Types: event/transaction data
Methodology
Data Source:
extracts from the EOUSA Central System file
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:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 2009-02-12
Version History:
- 2011-03-08 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.
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