Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Charged in Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 2001 [United States] (ICPSR 24121)

Published: Mar 8, 2011 View help for published

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

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24121.v2

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The data contain records of defendants in federal criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 2001. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central System file. According to the EOUSA, the United States attorneys conduct approximately 95 percent of the prosecutions handled by the Department of Justice. The 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.

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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Charged in Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 2001 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24121.v2

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

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

Distributor(s) View help for Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Time Period(s) View help for Time Period(s)

2000-10-01 -- 2001-09-30 (Fiscal year 2001)

Date of Collection View help for Date of Collection

2000-10-01 -- 2001-09-30 (Fiscal year 2001)

Universe View help for Universe

Defendants in federal criminal cases filed in United States District Court during fiscal year 2001.

Unit(s) of Observation View help for Unit(s) of Observation

federal defendants

Data Source View help for Data Source

extracts from the EOUSA Central System file

Data Type(s) View help for Data Type(s)

event/transaction data

Original Release Date View help for Original Release Date

2009-02-16

Version Date View help for Version Date

2011-03-08

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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. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants Charged in Criminal Cases Filed in District Court, 2001 [United States]. ICPSR24121-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24121.v2

2011-03-08 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.

2009-02-16 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:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.

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.

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  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. Please see version history for more details.
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.