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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... -
Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges,...
This project orignally was undertaken to compile a definitive database on the personal, social, economic, career, and political attributes of judges who served on the United... -
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... -
Monitoring of Federal Criminal Convictions and Sentences: Appeals Data Series
Investigator(s): U.S. Sentencing Commission This collection contains appellate information from the 12 circuit courts of appeals of the United States. The United States... -
Systems Change Analysis of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Programs in...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether adult sexual assault cases in a Midwestern community were more likely to be investigated and prosecuted after the... -
Assessing Consistency and Fairness in Sentencing in Michigan, Minnesota, and...
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the integrity of sentencing outcomes under alternative state guideline systems and to investigate how this variation in structure... -
Multistate Analysis of Time Consumption in Capital Appeals, 1992-2002
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... -
Processing and Outcome of Death Penalty Appeals After Furman v. Georgia,...
This data collection effort was undertaken to analyze the outcomes of capital appeals in the United States between 1973 and 1995 and as a means of assessing the reliability of... -
Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases in...
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... -
Judicial Decision Guidelines for Bail: The Philadelphia Experiment, 1981-1982
The purpose of this study was to test the utility of draft guidelines in informing judicial decisions about bail. A sample of judges, based upon a stratified quota sampling...