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Data · dataset · 2007

National Judicial Reporting Program Files

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The agency undertook this study to tabulate the number of persons convicted of felonies in state courts and the sentences these individuals received.

Description

The agency collected these data in order to allow criminal justice administration professionals and interested parties the opportunity to analyze felony convictions and sentencing on both a national and individual county level. The agency arranged for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research to prepare the data and documentation for public use.

This series contains data collected from state courts and state prosecutors in 100 counties of the United States. The file contains information about crime, criminals, and actions courts took in various cases. Sociodemographic information includes age, race, and sex of felon.

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Types of offenses committed include homicide, rape, and robbery. Adjudication variables referring to the process between arrest and sentencing are also a part of this file. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).

See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.

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