Survey of State Court Criminal Appeals, 2010 (ICPSR 36465)

Version Date: Jul 5, 2016

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36465.v1

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Alternate Title

SSCCA

Summary

State appellate courts were created to detect and correct errors in trial court decisions and provide fair, consistent, and timely resolutions to all appeals. The Survey of State Court Criminal Appeals, 2010 (SSCCA) data were collected from a nationally representative sample of all criminal appeals disposed in all 143 state appellate courts in 2010. The data include state court criminal appeals, resolution of appeals, and time to resolution.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Survey of State Court Criminal Appeals, 2010. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-07-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36465.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

county

Restrictions

Access to these BJS-sponsored data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a NACJD Restricted Data Use Agreement available from the ResearchDataGov website, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Restricted Data Use Agreements available on the NACJD website are provided for reference only. Please visit the ResearchDataGov website to download the appropriate Restricted Data Use Agreement and submit your request. Once approved, data may be accessed from a requester secure site via ICPSR's secure download procedures.

Distributor(s)

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

2010
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Sample

The data were collected from a nationally representative probability sample of all criminal appeals in 2010. Also included is a complete census of all death penalty appeals in 2010.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Criminal appeals in state courts.

Unit(s) of Observation

State criminal appeals

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2016-07-05

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 Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Survey of State Court Criminal Appeals, 2010. ICPSR36465-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-07-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36465.v1

2016-07-05 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 recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data include a weight variable used to estimate criminal appeals in the United States. Also included are replicate weights for calculating standard errors.

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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.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.