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Spreadsheets - Crime & Justice Electronic Data Abstracts |
Courts and Sentencing StatisticsOn this page: Summary findings | About the data collections | Selected statistics | Related sites Pages with additional information, statistics, and publications about:
Summary findings
BJS Courts and Sentencing data collections National Judicial Reporting Program (NJRP)
conducted every 2 years, surveys a nationwide sample of county felony
trial courts in 300 counties, collecting detailed information on demographic
characteristics of felons, conviction offenses, type of sentences, and sentence
lengths. State
Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) (formerly, through 1994,
National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP)) provides data on the criminal
justice processing of persons charged with felonies in 40 jurisdictions
representative of the 75 largest counties. These counties account for
about half the serious crime nationwide. The program prospectively tracks
felony defendants from charging by the prosecutor until disposition
of their cases or for a maximum of 12 months. Data are obtained on demographic
characteristics, arrest offense, criminal justice status at time of
arrest, prior arrests and convictions, bail and pretrial release, court
appearance record, rearrests while on pretrial release, type and outcome
of adjudication, and type and length of sentence. State Court Statistics Project, conducted by State Justice Institute and the National Center for State Courts, provides data on State appellate and trial court caseloads for the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Information is reported on case type, case filings, case processing, disposition, and appellate opinions. Data on State appellate caseloads are divided into mandatory and discretionary cases. Data on trial court caseloads include information about criminal cases, non-domestic civil cases, domestic cases, juvenile cases, and cases involving traffic and other violations of local ordinance. Survey
of State Court Organization provides basic descriptive information
about trial and appellate State court systems. Information is collected
about courts and judges, judicial selection and service, administrative
procedures, the jury, and court structure. The most recent collection
includes data on the proliferation of specialized courts, the adjudication
of domestic violence cases, insanity defense, and automated court information
systems. Civil
Justice Survey of State Courts collects civil trial caseload
data for a 1-year period from a sample of counties representative of
the Nation's largest counties. Data include case type, outcome, jury
awards, type of litigants, legal representation, and dates of filing
and disposition. Codebooks and Datasets | Data on CD-ROM National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems, conducted during 1999-2000, represented the first systematic study of indigent criminal defense services by BJS since the 1980s. The study collected indigent criminal defense data at the trial level for 1) the 100 most populous counties in the United States, 2) 197 counties outside the 100 most populous counties, and 3) States that entirely funded criminal indigent defense services. Information obtained includes number of program staff, program expenditures, and types of cases received by indigent criminal defense programs. 1999 National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems questionnaires: Program survey (96 K, Acrobat file) 2002 Census of Tribal Justice Agencies in American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Jurisdictions (CTJA02) is the first comprehensive effort by the Justice Department to document tribal justice agencies, the services they provide, and the capacity among American Indian and Alaska Native tribes to collect and report information on crime in their jurisdictions. Special emphasis will be made to identify the tribal justice forums used for resolving disputes, tribal court services and personnel, law enforcement agencies, record keeping methods, and crime reporting practices. Draft questionnaire for comment (Acrobat file 141K)
Selected statisticsState Court Sentencing of Convicted Felons - Statistical tables in spreadsheet and portable document format files. Subjects include:
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