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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 30, 2014 at 03:10 PM

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 methods. Instead, the Alabama...

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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...

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

This study evaluated the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) incentive grant program enacted in 1994. The program provided grants to states to be used to increase the...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 19, 2018 at 08:58 AM

The objective of this study was to systematically review and statistically synthesize all available research that, at a minimum, compared participants in a restorative justice program to...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: July 30, 2007 at 12:00 AM

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 create an empirical ...

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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: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

The United Nations International Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch began the Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (formerly known as the World Crime...

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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...

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

The National Assessment Program (NAP) Survey was conducted to determine the needs and problems of state and local criminal justice agencies. At the local level in each sampled county, survey ...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 08, 1993 at 12:00 AM

This data collection examines the effects of sentencing on offenders' subsequent criminal behaviors. The data address the following questions: (1) At what point in the criminal career is the...

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

This study was conducted in 1978 at the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Georgetown University Law Center. The study consists of three files. The first contains information...

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

Investigator(s): United Nations Office at Vienna, R.W. Burnham, Helen Burnham, Bruce DiCristina, and Graeme Newman The United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal...

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• 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: January 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM

The Fifth United Nations Survey, covering the years 1990-1994, was designed to collect data on the incidence of reported crime and the operation of criminal justice systems with a view...

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• 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...

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

This project sought to investigate a possible relationship between sentencing guidelines and family structure in the United States. The research team developed three research modules...

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

The purpose of this study was to estimate the impact of the Michigan Firearm Law on the processing of defendants in Detroit's Recorder's Court. Most variables in the study focus on the...

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