The main sampling strategy involved the selection of up to
30 individuals for each of eight offense types (bribery, bank
embezzlement, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, false claims and
statements, credit and lending institution fraud, postal theft, and
postal forgery) in seven federal judicial districts. Some districts
had fewer than 30 individuals convicted for specific offense
categories. In addition, the dataset includes all known individual
co-defendants of these core sample members, all individuals convicted
of securities and antitrust offenses in federal courts nationally, and a
"common crime" sample. Since all offenders convicted of securities
fraud and antitrust offenses in all of the federal districts during
the three fiscal years were examined, the sample contains a higher
proportion of these offenders than the other offenses.
Convicted white collar criminals in federal judicial
districts representing metropolitan centers, specifically, central
California, northern Georgia, northern Illinois, Maryland, southern New
York, northern Texas, and western Washington.
pre-sentence investigation reports for fiscal years
1976, 1977, and 1978 from the Administrative Office of United
States Courts
event/transaction data