The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Description & Citation--Study No. 8918

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

8918

Title:

National Corrections Reporting Program, 1985

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. 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. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Corrections Reporting Program, 1985. ICPSR08918-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-04-26. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08918.v1

Series:

National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

This study was conducted to provide a consistent and comprehensive description of convicted persons' entrance into and departure from correctional custody and correctional supervision. To accomplish this goal, data were gathered from official state prison records on topics such as race, sex, and age of inmates, length of time in jail, length of time in prison, and type of offense committed. The data were collected from the state prison systems of 40 states, the Federal Prison System, and the California Youth Authority.

Subject Terms:

correctional facilities, correctional facilities (juveniles), correctional system, demographic characteristics, federal correctional facilities, jail inmates, juvenile offenders, national crime statistics (USA), offenders, offenses, parole, prison inmates, probation, state correctional facilities

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 1985

Date of Collection:
  • 1985-01-01--1985-12-31

Universe:

All persons incarcerated in prisons in the United States.

Data Types:

administrative records data, event/transaction data, survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The records for Florida could not be verified.

Conducted by the United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census.

Methodology

Sample:

All persons incarcerated in state prisons in 40 states, the Federal Prison System, and the California Youth Authority.

Data Source:

official prison records of prisoner population movement

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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

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

Original ICPSR Release:

1990-03-02

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.;

Version History:

  • 2010-04-26 The entire NCRP series is being re-released in restricted format.

  • 2006-03-30 File UG8918.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

  • 2006-03-30 File SP8918.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

  • 2006-03-30 File CB8918.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

  • 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 4 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

  • 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 4 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

  • 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

  • 1997-08-01 The data have been checked for wild or invalid codes, and the codebook and SAS and SPSS data definition statements now document these codes. In addition, the codebook is now available as a PDF file, and the variable and value labels have been expanded. The user guide was scanned and is now available in PDF format.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Prison Admissions
  • DS2: Prison Releases
  • DS3: Parole Releases