Plea Bargaining in the United States, 1978 (ICPSR 7775)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Herbert S. Miller; William McDonald; James A. Cramer

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07775.v1

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Summary

This study was conducted in 1978 at the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Georgetown University Law Center. The study consists of three files. The first contains information from 3,397 case files in six United States cities. The 63 variables include demographic information on the accused and the victim, past record of the accused, seriousness of the offense, pleas entered, speed of trial process, and sentencing. The second file contains information gathered from in-court observations focused on the formal supervision of plea bargaining by judges. There are approximately 33 variables for each of the 711 court observations. The third file consists of the results of a plea bargaining simulation game. There are 17 variables for each of the 479 cases in the file.

Citation

Miller, Herbert S., McDonald, William, and Cramer, James A. Plea Bargaining in the United States, 1978. [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07775.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (77-NI-99-0049)

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Original Release Date

1984-03-18

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:
  • Miller, Herbert S., William McDonald, and James A. Cramer. PLEA BARGAINING IN THE UNITED STATES, 1978. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Law Center [producer], 1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1980. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07775.v1

2006-01-18 File CB7775.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

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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.