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Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Sentenced Under the Sentencing Reform Act, 1999 [United States]

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Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary: These data contain records of criminal defendants who were sentenced pursuant to provisions of the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA) of 1984 and reported to the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) during fiscal year 1999. It is estimated that over 90 percent of felony defendants in the federal criminal justice system are sentenced pursuant to the SRA of 1984. The data were obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission's Office of Policy Analysis' (OPA) Standardized Research Da... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24089.v2

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