Metadata record for Dynamics of Change in the Criminal Case Plea Bargaining System: New York City, 1800-18906501Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.2024-03-18Dynamics of Change in the Criminal Case Plea Bargaining System: New York City, 1800-1890650110.3886/ICPSR06501.v1Mirsky, Chester L.Ortese, EdellePlease see full citation.National Science Foundation. Law and Social Sciences ProgramSES-9010178Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research1996-02-262006-01-12All files were removed from dataset 11 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.2005-11-04On 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.Mirsky, Chester L., and Edelle Ortese. Dynamics of Change in the Criminal Case Plea Bargaining System: New York City, 1800-1890. ICPSR06501-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06501.v1http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06501.v1attorneyscase processingcourtsguilty pleasindictmentsjudgeslaw enforcementplea negotiationstestimonyNACJD IV. Court Case ProcessingICPSR XVII.E. Social Institutions and Behavior, Crime and the Criminal Justice SystemThis study analyzes the ascendancy of a single form of dispute processing--the guilty plea--in New York City's principal indictment court, and its connection to law enforcement, judges, and lawyers. A major component of the study is a statistical analysis of data presented in the Minute Book of Court of General Sessions and maintained at the New York City Archives. A second data source is the New York City district attorney's case files, also maintained at the New York City Archives. Part 1, District Attorney Case File Data, contains a sample of cases throughout the century taken from the district attorney's files. Variables cover charge filed, method of arrest, nature of testimony, presence of the lawyers, role of police, private prosecutor, and magistrate, and demographic information about the defendant and victim. Part 2, Lawyer Data, records the frequency of the appearance of individual lawyers, the charges in the cases in which they appeared, the lawyering activities they undertook, and the method of case disposition. Part 3, Minute Book Data, reflects the workday of the Court of General Sessions, including the number of cases processed in court on any given day, the number of defendants tried, the details of charges, joinder, witness examinations, outcome and sentence, and the number pleading guilty. Part 4, Cases Tried Data, not only records cases tried but also includes the top count, legal representation, result, and sentence, and for cases pleading guilty contains the top count charged, top count accepted, and sentence imposed. District Attorney Reference Data, Part 5, contains cases in which copies of the district attorney's papers were not found. These cases occurred on the same day as cases for which copies of the district attorney's papers were recorded. This data served as a control group for the District Attorney Case File Data.1800189019901993Please see geographic coverage.New York (state)New York CityUnited StatesNineteenth-century criminal cases that originated in New York City's Special Sessions Court and proceeded to indictment in the Court of General Sessions.event/transaction dataadministrative records dataSampling varied with each dataset. For the District Attorney Case File Data and District Attorney Reference Data, data were drawn from sources every fifth year, beginning in 1800 and continuing until 1879, at 30-day intervals. For the Lawyer Data, data were sampled every five years beginning in 1800 and continuing through 1890. For the Minute Book Data and the Cases Tried Data, the interval used was every ten years beginning in 1800 and continuing through 1890.official recordsAnn Arbor, Mi.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.DS1: District Attorney Case File DataDS2: Lawyer DataDS3: Minute Book DataDS4: Cases Tried DataDS5: District Attorney Reference DataDS6: SAS Data Definition Statements for District Attorney Case File DataDS7: SAS Data Definition Statements for Lawyer DataDS8: SAS Data Definition Statements for Minute Book DataDS9: SAS Data Definition Statements for Cases Tried DataDS10: SAS Data Definition Statements for District Attorney Reference Data