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Sentencing Practices and Time Served in the District of Columbia Prior to Truth in Sentencing, 1993-1998
Department of Justice —
This study collected data on felony sentencing practices in the District of Columbia during the period 1993 to 1998. Data are provided on (1) the characteristics of... -
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American Terrorism Study, 1980-2002
Department of Justice —
This study was conducted in response to a lack of existing data collections relating specifically to acts of American terrorism. A primary goal of the study was to... -
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Evaluating the Incapacitative Benefits of Incarcerating Drug Offenders in Los Angeles and Maricopa [Arizona] Counties, 1986 and 1990
Department of Justice —
The objective of this study was to examine the observable offending patterns of recent and past drug offenders to assess the crime control potential associated with... -
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Comparison of Drug Control Strategies in San Diego, 1989
Department of Justice —
This study assesses the consequences for offenders of various drug enforcement strategies employed by the San Diego Police Department and profiles the factors that... -
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Intensive Supervision Program in New Jersey, 1983-1986
Department of Justice —
These data evaluate the New Jersey Intensive Supervision Program (ISP), a program implemented by the New Jersey Department of Corrections in 1983-1986. The central... -
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Evaluation of North Carolina's 1994 Structured Sentencing Law, 1992-1998
Department of Justice —
Effective October 1, 1994, the state of North Carolina implemented a new structured sentencing law that applied to all felony and misdemeanor crimes (except for... -
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Crime Control Effects of Sentencing in Essex County, New Jersey, 1976-1997
Department of Justice —
This study was undertaken to examine the ways in which different felony sanctions impact the future behavior of felony offenders. The study sought to determine... -
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Factors Related to Domestic Violence Court Dispositions in a Large Midwestern Urban Area, 1997-1998: [United States]
Department of Justice —
The goal of this study was to identify factors that influence whether city misdemeanor domestic violence cases in which batterers are arrested by police result in... -
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Alabama Sentencing Simulation Model, 1998-2003
Department of Justice —
Prior to 2003, the State of Alabama had no formal methodology to forecast prison populations, including a simulation model or statistical time-series and forecasting... -
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Assessment of Defense and Prosecutorial Strategies in Terrorism Trials in the United States, 1980-2004
Department of Justice —
This study created a flat-file database of information regarding defendants who were referred to United States Attorneys by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)... -
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Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining in Federal Criminal Courts in the United States, 1983-1990
Department of Justice —
The primary purpose of this data collection was to study whether prosecutorial behavior was affected by the implementation of federal criminal sentencing guidelines... -
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Victim Impact Statements: Their Effect on Court Outcomes and Victim Satisfaction in New York, 1988-1990
Department of Justice —
The purpose of this data collection was to assess the effects of victim impact statements on sentencing decisions and on victim satisfaction with the criminal justice... -
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Forensic Evidence in Homicide Investigations, Cleveland, Ohio, 2008-2011
Department of Justice —
These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release,... -
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Assessing Local Legal Culture: Practitioner Norms in Four Criminal Courts, 1979
Department of Justice —
This study attempts to operationalize the concept of local legal culture by examining differences in the processing of twelve hypothetical criminal cases in four... -
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Repeat Offender Laws in the United States: Forms, Uses, and Perceived Value, 1983
Department of Justice —
This survey of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges in jurisdictions with sentence enhancement statutes for repeat offenders collected information about the... -
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Community-Level Influences on the Sentencing of Convicted Sex Offenders, Pennsylvania, 2004-2010
Department of Justice —
These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release,... -
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National Evaluation of the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grant Program, 1996-1999
Department of Justice —
This study evaluated the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) incentive grant program enacted in 1994. The program provided grants to states... -
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Assessing Consistency and Fairness in Sentencing in Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia, 2001-2002, 2004
Department of Justice —
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the integrity of sentencing outcomes under alternative state guideline systems and to investigate how this variation in... -
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Evaluation of No-Drop Policies for Domestic Violence Cases in San Diego, California, Omaha, Nebraska, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Everett, Washington, 1996-2000
Department of Justice —
This study sought to examine the effects of no-drop policies on court outcomes, victim satisfaction with the justice system, and feelings of safety. Moreover,... -
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Impact of Rape Reform Legislation in Six Major Urban Jurisdictions in the United States, 1970-1985
Department of Justice —
Despite the fact that most states enacted rape reform legislation by the mid-1980s, empirical research on the effect of these laws was conducted in only four states...