Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, [United States], 2008-2009 (ICPSR 28602)

Version Date: Oct 28, 2014

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Sentencing Commission

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28602.v1

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MFCS

Summary

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, 2008, and September 30, 2009, 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 highest occurrences of each iterating variable. Part 2, Supplementary Data, includes the remaining iterations.

Citation

United States Sentencing Commission. Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, [United States], 2008-2009. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-10-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28602.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

federal court district

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2008-10-01 -- 2009-09-30

Date of Collection

2008 -- 2009

Data Collection Notes

  1. 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).

  2. The data producer is the United States Sentencing Commission, Washington, DC.

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Universe

All cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009, and were assessed as constitutional.

Unit(s) of Observation

federal criminal case

Data Source

judgments of conviction

guideline worksheets

statements of reason

Federal Probation Sentence and Supervision Information System

plea agreements

presentence reports

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2014-10-28

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • United States Sentencing Commission. Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, [United States], 2008-2009. ICPSR28602-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-10-28. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28602.v1

2014-10-28 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.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.