Description & Citation--Study No. 29404
Bibliographic Description |
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Study No.: |
29404 |
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Title: |
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Offenders Admitted to Prison, 2008 |
Principal Investigator(s): |
United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
Funding: |
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
Bibliographic Citation: |
United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Justice Statistics Program: Offenders Admitted to Prison, 2008. ICPSR29404-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-08. doi:10.3886/ICPSR29404.v2 |
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Scope of Study |
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Summary: |
The data contain records of sentenced offenders committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) during fiscal year 2008. The data include commitments of United States District Court, violators of conditions of release (e.g., parole, probation, or supervised release violators), offenders convicted in other courts (e.g., military or District of Columbia courts), and persons admitted to prison as material witnesses or for purposes of treatment, examination, or transfer to another authority. These data include variables that describe the offender, such as age, race, citizenship, as well as variables that describe the sentences and expected prison terms. The data file contains original variables from the Bureau of Prisons' SENTRY database, as well as "SAF" variables that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Tables 7.9-7.16. 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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Date of Collection: |
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Unit of Observation: |
federal prisoners |
Universe: |
Offenders in the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons during fiscal year 2008. |
Data Types: |
event/transaction data |
Methodology |
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Data Source: |
extracts from the BOP SENTRY database |
Extent of Processing: |
All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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Access and Availability |
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Note: |
Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
Original ICPSR Release: |
2011-02-04 |
Restrictions: |
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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