Federal Justice Statistics Program: Arrests and Bookings for Federal Offenses, 2022 (ICPSR 38991)
Version Date: May 28, 2024 View help for published
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s)
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Series:
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38991.v1
Version V1
Summary View help for Summary
The data contain records of arrests and bookings for federal offenses in the United States during fiscal year 2022. The data were constructed from the United States Marshals Service (USMS) Capture database. Records include arrests and bookings made by federal law enforcement agencies (including the USMS) and state and local agencies. Justice involved individuals arrested or booked for federal offenses are transferred to the custody of the USMS for processing, transportation, and detention. The Capture system contains data on all justice involved individuals within the custody of the USMS. Variables containing identifying information were either removed, coarsened, or blanked in order to protect the identities of individuals. A primary difference between the 2020 data and previous years is that the 2020 data were subset based upon an admission to custody in the fiscal year. In previous years, arrest date was used to subset the records. Some individuals in the 2022 data will have a missing arrest date. These data are part of a series designed by Abt Associates and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by Abt Associates.
Citation View help for Citation
Export Citation:
Funding View help for Funding
Subject Terms View help for Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage
Restrictions View help for Restrictions
Access to these BJS-sponsored data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a NACJD Restricted Data Use Agreement available from the ResearchDataGov website, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
Restricted Data Use Agreements available on the NACJD website are provided for reference only. Please visit the ResearchDataGov website to download the appropriate Restricted Data Use Agreement and submit your request. Once approved, data may be accessed from a requester secure site via ICPSR's secure download procedures.
Distributor(s) View help for Distributor(s)
Time Period(s) View help for Time Period(s)
Date of Collection View help for Date of Collection
Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes
-
Beginning in 2020, records reflect date at the start of custody rather than arrest date.
Time Method View help for Time Method
Universe View help for Universe
Federal offenders in the custody of the United States Marshals Service during fiscal year 2022.
Unit(s) of Observation View help for Unit(s) of Observation
Data Source View help for Data Source
extracts from the USMS Prisoner Tracking System file
Data Type(s) View help for Data Type(s)
HideOriginal Release Date View help for Original Release Date
2024-05-28
Version History View help for Version History
2024-05-28 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:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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.
One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.

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.
