Description & Citation--Study No. 34330

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

34330

Federal Justice Statistics Program: Charges Filed Against Defendants in Criminal Cases in District Court, 2010

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

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

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Justice Statistics Program: Charges Filed Against Defendants in Criminal Cases in District Court, 2010. ICPSR34330-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-01-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR34330.v1

Federal Justice Statistics Program Data Series

Scope of Study

The data contain records of charges filed against defendants whose cases were filed by United States attorneys in United States district court during fiscal year 2010. The data are charge-level records, and more than one charge may be filed against a single defendant. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central Charge file. The charge-level data may be linked to defendant-level data (extracted from the EOUSA Central System file) through the CS_SEQ variable, and it should be noted that some defendants may not have any charges other than the lead charge appearing on the defendant-level record. The Central Charge and 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. 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.

defendants, district courts, offenses, prosecution

United States

• 2009-10-01--2010-09-30  (Fiscal year 2010)

• 2009-10-01--2010-09-30  (Fiscal year 2010)

charges against Federal defendants

Charges filed against defendants in United States district court during fiscal year 2010.

event/transaction data

Methodology

extracts from the EOUSA Central Charge file

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:

• Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

2013-01-07

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.