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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 07, 2012 at 10:28 AM

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics This series tabulates the number of persons convicted of felonies in state courts and describes their sentences. Data were collected from state...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 31, 2022 at 03:13 PM

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics These data collections provide annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 08, 2011 at 12:00 PM

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and prisoners whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the period 1973-2009. Information...

• V2

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

This study was conducted in an effort to better understand the circumstances surrounding murder cases in large urban areas. To evaluate the 75 largest counties in the nation, 33 counties...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 25, 2021 at 05:00 PM

A major goal of juvenile justice reform is to reduce reoffending and recidivism among juvenile offenders. Advocates of trauma informed practices assert that disproportionately high rates of...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 14, 2012 at 09:19 AM

The 2007 Census of State Court Prosecutors marked the second BJS survey of all prosecutors' offices in the United States. The first census, conducted in 2001, included the 2,341 offices in...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 31, 2009 at 08:45 AM

The purpose of this study was to examine the crime of identity theft from the offenders' perspectives. The study employed a purposive sampling strategy. Researchers identified potential interview...

• V1

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

This study sought to evaluate how well day fines work as an intermediate sanction. Day fines are a structured approach to imposing fines that considers both the offender's ability to pay and...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This study was conducted to examine whether a rising crime rate in El Paso, Texas and San Diego, California in 1986 could be attributed to, among other factors, the influx of undocumented...

• V1

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

The purpose of the study was to provide information about home detention monitoring systems and to evaluate their effectiveness. The principal investigators sought to determine (1) whether...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: June 07, 2002 at 12:00 AM

This data collection examines the interrelationships among drug/alcohol use, childhood sexual or physical abuse, and encounters with the juvenile justice system. To identify high-risk...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 17, 2020 at 09:42 AM

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, 1973-2012 provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death, as well as those who had their sentences commuted or vacated and prisoners who were...

• V2

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

This project was designed to evaluate the use of a drug detection instrument, the ion mobility spectrometer (IMS), and to integrate its use into an ongoing pretrial diversion program for ...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 08, 2011 at 10:00 AM

This data collection tabulates the number of persons convicted of felonies in state courts and describes their sentences. Data were collected from state courts and state prosecutors in 344...

• V3

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 25, 2021 at 04:59 PM

The goals of this project were to: describe the implementation of holistic defense principles in three indigent defense programs; measure each program's impact on pretrial court practices, manner...

• V1

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

This data collection was designed to assess the deterrent effects over time of police sanctioning activity, specifically that of arrests. Arrest and crime report data were collected from...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and prisoners whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the period 1973-2007. Information...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 12, 2008 at 10:20 AM

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the period 1973-1992. Information is...

• V1

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

The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing is a legislative agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Commission develops sentencing guidelines for judges to use when sentencing felony...

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

The National Survey of Prosecutors is a biennial survey of chief prosecutors in state court systems. A chief prosecutor is an official, usually locally elected and typically with the title...

• V1