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    • National Judicial Reporting Program, 1998

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    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 counties of the United States. The collection contains sociodemographic information such as age, race, and sex of the felon. 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 dataset. Data can be analyzed at the national level or by individual counties.

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    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 1096
    Data First Published 2002-02-15T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2011-04-11T12:14:52
    Rights These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Package Id 4e00a7a1-14f7-436b-9d25-01aa02a8ec4e
    Harvest Object Id a4e6fcb3-f8f0-40ee-b9fd-bb0d4fd690af
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2a32d6dcb05cd497ac705ddbad88a3ef70c885a82678b17f1e4f2f8daf8f1ece
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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