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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

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, researchers wanted to determine...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This study attempts to operationalize the concept of local legal culture by examining differences in the processing of twelve hypothetical criminal cases in four criminal courts....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: June 12, 2013 at 04:38 PM

Investigator(s): Pretrial Services Resource Center The National Pretrial Reporting Program project was initiated in 1983 by the Pretrial Services Resource Center with funding from the...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 06:23 PM

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 30, 2018 at 02:21 PM

Investigator(s): Federal Judicial Center The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal courts. The data originate from 100 court...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This evaluation was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office to examine the effectiveness of specialized prosecutorial activities in dealing with the local...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: February 16, 1992 at 12:00 AM

This data collection contains a revised SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area) aggregate version of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics gathered from 1966-1976, in which...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: June 27, 2014 at 02:34 PM

These data, collected to assist in the development of sentencing guidelines, describe offense and sentencing characteristics for organizations sentenced in federal district courts in 2000....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 28, 2019 at 09:36 AM

This study provides incident-based, case processing, and criminal history data on defendants charged in state courts during May 2002. The State Court Processing Statistics Program tracked the...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 20, 2011 at 02:31 PM

This data collection effort was undertaken to determine whether accurate and comprehensive pretrial data can be collected at the local level and subsequently aggregated at the state and...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 06:06 PM

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

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 and for a limited time span...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 24, 2014 at 03:51 PM

These data, collected to assist in the development of sentencing guidelines, describe offense and sentencing characteristics for organizations sentenced in federal district courts in 2010....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 25, 2008 at 02:21 PM

Despite public controversy over the length of death penalty appeals, little empirical work has been done on the time allocated to the capital appeals process. The purpose of this study was to...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 26, 2016 at 07:24 AM

These data are part of NACJD's Rapid Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

Investigator(s): Harold J. Spaeth, James L. Gibson, Michigan State University This data collection encompasses all aspects of United States Supreme Court decision-making from the beginning of...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This data collections provides information on each juvenile case disposed in the state of Missouri during calendar years 1984-1987. The state of Missouri began collecting and disseminating...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This data collection examines the impact of the Supreme Court decision in "UNITED STATES VS. LEON" on police search warrant applications in seven jurisdictions. For this collection, which is...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: August 08, 2005 at 12:00 AM

Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) studies are designed to collect information by tracking adult offenders from the point of entry into the criminal justice system (typically by...

• V2

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

In 1996 the Institute for Law and Justice (ILJ) began an evaluation of the law enforcement and prosecution components of the "STOP Violence Against Women" grant program authorized by the...

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