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Criminal Case Processing in Metropolitan Courts, 1976
In 1977 the National Center for State Courts, in cooperation with the National Conference of Metropolitan Courts, began a research and demonstration project on the delay in... -
National Crime Surveys: National Sample, 1979-1987 [Revised Questionnaire]
The purpose of the National Crime Surveys is to provide data on the level of crime victimization in the United States and to collect data on the characteristics of crime... -
National Survey of Children: Wave I, 1976, Wave II, 1981, and Wave III, 1987
The purpose of this study was to assess the physical, social, and psychological well-being of American children, to develop a national profile of the way children in the United... -
Collection Organizations Convicted in Federal Criminal Courts Series
Investigator(s): U.S. Sentencing Commission These data, collected to assist in the development of sentencing guidelines, describe offense and sentencing characteristics for... -
State Court Organizations, 2004 [United States]
This data collection provides detailed comparative information about the structure, policies, and procedures of state-wide trial and appellate court systems for the 50 states,... -
National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems (NSIDS), 1999
This survey collected nationwide data in order to: (1) identify the number and characteristics of publicly financed indigent defense systems and agencies in the United States,... -
National Crime Surveys Longitudinal File, 1988-1989: [Selected Variables]
This longitudinal file for the National Crime Surveys (NCS) contains selected variables related to whether a crime was reported to the police for households that responded to... -
Recidivism of Felons on Probation, 1986-1989: [United States]
This data collection provides an overview of how probation cases are processed in 32 urban and suburban jurisdictions in the United States and gauges the extent to which... -
Police Use of Force Data, 1996: [United States]
In 1996, the Bureau of Justice Statistics sponsored a pretest of a survey instrument designed to compile data on citizen contacts with police, including contacts in which police... -
School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2006
The School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) is managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on behalf of the United States Department of Education (ED).... -
Public Image of Courts, 1977: General Public Data
This data collection and its companion study, PUBLIC IMAGE OF COURTS, 1977: SPECIAL PUBLICS DATA (ICPSR 7704), were undertaken to explore attitudes toward courts and justice.... -
Penal Code Citations: Sentencing in 18 American Felony Courts, 1983
The purpose of this study was to describe sentencing outcomes in 18 jurisdictions across the United States based on sentences actually imposed on adjudicated felons. Such... -
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases in District Court -- Pending, 2011
The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in United States District Court before or during fiscal year 2011 and still pending as of year-end. The data were... -
Commercial Victimization Surveys, 1972-1975 [United States]: Cities Sample
The National Crime Surveys, of which these Commercial Victimization Surveys are a part, were conducted to obtain current and reliable measures of serious crime in the United... -
Public Image of Courts, 1977: Special Publics Data
This data collection and its companion study, PUBLIC IMAGE OF COURTS, 1977: GENERAL PUBLIC DATA (ICPSR 7703), were undertaken to explore attitudes toward courts and justice.... -
National Crime Surveys: National Sample of Rape Victims, 1973-1982
The purpose of this study was to provide an in-depth look at rapes and attempted rapes in the United States. Part 1 of the collection offers data on rape victims and contains... -
Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 2004
This collection contains survey data collected at the end of October 2004 from the 49 state law enforcement agencies in the United States that had traffic patrol responsibility.... -
National Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 2001
This study contains data from a survey of publicly operated forensic crime labs that perform deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing. The survey was a follow-up to the initial... -
Annual Survey of Jails: Individual Reporting-Level Data, 2007
The Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ) is the only data collection effort that provides an annual source of data on local jails and jail inmates. Data on the size of the jail... -
United States Courts of Appeals Database Phase 1, 1925-1988
The Appeals Court Database Project was designed to create an extensive dataset to facilitate the empirical analysis of the votes of judges and the decisions of the United States...