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Compendium of Federal Justice
Statistics, 1997
Presents national-level
statistics describing all aspects of processing in the Federal criminal
justice system, including investigations by U.S. attorneys, prosecutions
and declinations, pretrial release and detention, convictions and acquittals,
sentencing, appeals, and corrections for 1997. Highlights of the 1997
report include the following:
- During 1997 U.S.
attorneys initiated criminal investigations of 110,034 suspects. They
concluded investigations of 99,459 suspects.
- Criminal charges
were filed in U.S. district courts against 69,351 defendants during
1997. Criminal cases were concluded against 64,956 defendants during
1997. Eighty-seven percent (or 56,570) of all defendants were convicted.
Most felony convictions were obtained by guilty plea (93%).
- Drug defendants
comprised 42% of felony convictions, defendants charged with property
and public-order offenses each comprised 26% of the felony convictions,
and defendants charged with violent offenses comprised the remaining
6% of felony convictions.
10/99, NCJ 176328
This report is one in a series. More recent editions may be available. A list of all in the series is provided on the publications
page.
Full report: Acrobat
file (827K) | Ascii file (no tables)
( 172K)
Introduction Acrobat file (142K)
Chapter 1: Prosecution Acrobat file
(129K) | Zipped archive of 6 spreadsheets
(18K)
Chapter 2: Pretrial release Acrobat
file (171K)| Zipped archive of
10 spreadsheets (35K)
Chapter 3: Adjudication Acrobat file
(129K) | Zipped archive of 5 spreadsheets
(35K)
Chapter 4: Sentencing Acrobat file
(134K) | Zipped archive of 6 spreadsheets
(22K)
Chapter 5: Appeals Acrobat file
(120K) | Zipped archive of 5 spreadsheets
(19K)
Chapter 6: Corrections Acrobat file
(237K) | Zipped archive of 16 spreadsheets
(63K)
Methodology Acrobat file (165K)
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