Repeat Offender Laws in the United States: Forms, Uses, and Perceived Value, 1983 (ICPSR 9328)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
William F. McDonald; Lonnie A. Athens; Thomas J. Minton

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09328.v1

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Summary

This survey of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges in jurisdictions with sentence enhancement statutes for repeat offenders collected information about the characteristics of the laws and criminal justice professionals regarding the fairness, effectiveness, and practice of the laws. The jurisdiction file includes variables such as jurisdiction size, number of provisions in the law, number of felony cases handled under the law per year, number of defendants sentenced as repeat offenders, frequency of charging and sentencing under the law, and minimum and maximum sentences specified in the statutes. The variables in the three surveys of practitioners contain data related to their familiarity with the laws, descriptions of recent cases, and satisfaction with the new statutes.

Citation

McDonald, William F., Athens, Lonnie A., and Minton, Thomas J. Repeat Offender Laws in the United States:  Forms, Uses, and Perceived Value, 1983. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09328.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (83-IJ-CX-0023)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1983

Date of Collection

1984
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Sample

Within each of the 49 jurisdictions with general repeat offender laws, two local jurisdictions were randomly selected: one from localities with populations between 50,000 and 250,000 in 1980, and the other from larger localities. Criminal justice professionals who were familiar with the repeat offender laws were selected from a convenience sample of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges.

Universe

General recidivist laws in effect during 1983 in the United States.

Data Source

Legal reference books, and telephone surveys.

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1990-05-01

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:
  • McDonald, William F., Lonnie A. Athens, and Thomas J. Minton. Repeat Offender Laws in the United States: Forms, Uses, and Perceived Value, 1983. ICPSR09328-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09328.v1

2006-01-18 File CB9328.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

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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.