Sentencing in Eight United States District Courts, 1973-1978 (ICPSR 8622)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Brian Forst; William Rhodes

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08622.v3

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Summary

This data collection provides information about sentencing patterns established by the United States District Courts for federal offenses. It is one of only a few studies that examine federal sentencing patterns, court involvement, sentencing, and criminal histories. Eleven types of crimes are included: bank robbery, embezzlement, income tax evasion, mail theft, forgery, drugs, random other, false claims, homicide, bribery of a public official, and mail fraud. There are three kinds of data files that pertain to the 11 types of crimes: psi files, offense files, and AO files. The psi files describe defendant demographic background and criminal history. The offense files contain questions tailored to a particular type of offense committed by a defendant and the results of conviction and sentencing. The AO files provide additional information on defendants' background characteristics, court records, and dates of court entry and exit.

Citation

Forst, Brian, and Rhodes, William. Sentencing in Eight United States District Courts, 1973-1978. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08622.v3

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (J-42723)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1973 -- 1978

Date of Collection

1978
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Sample

The eight districts were selected to represent a degree of geographic spread and variation in size. The most recent 120 presentence investigation reports per offense from each of the five largest districts were selected and the most recent 40 presentence investigation reports were chosen.

Universe

All defendants sentenced in Federal District Courts from 1973-1978 for 11 selected offenses.

Data Source

pre-sentence investigation reports prepared for the courts

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1987-05-19

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:
  • Forst, Brian, and William Rhodes. Sentencing in Eight United States District Courts, 1973-1978. ICPSR08622-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08622.v3

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 28 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.

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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.