Version Date: Jun 25, 2014 View help for published
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United States Sentencing Commission
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25424.v2
Version V2
This collection contains information on federal criminal cases sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The data files include all cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2007, and September 30, 2008, and were assessed as constitutional. Constitutionality compares each case's sentencing date, circuit, district, and judge to provide uniformity in reporting the cases. In 1999, the United States Sentencing Commission added more variables from its databases to this collection, so the data are now provided in two files. Several variables iterate to include multiple occurrences of the same event. Part 1, Main Data, includes all noniterating variables plus the highest occurrences of each iterating variable. Part 2, Supplementary Data, includes the remaining iterations.
Export Citation:
federal court district
Starting with the 1999 data, ICPSR archives MONITORING OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL SENTENCES under a new study number for each year of data. Data for the years 1993-1998 are archived in MONITORING OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL SENTENCES, 1987-1998 (ICPSR 9317).
The data producer is the United States Sentencing Commission, Washington, DC.
All cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2007, and September 30, 2008, and were assessed as constitutional.
judgments of conviction
guideline worksheets
statements of reason
Federal Probation Sentence and Supervision Information System
plea agreements
presentence reports
2009-09-01
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:
2014-06-25 All parts are being moved from restricted access to public access.
2011-03-08 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.
2009-09-01 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:
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.
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.
