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Compendium of Federal Justice
Statistics, 1996
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 1996. Highlights of the 1996
report include the following:
- During 1996 U.S.
attorneys initiated criminal investigations of 97,776 suspects. They
concluded investigations of 98,454 suspects.
- Criminal charges
were filed in U.S. district courts against 65,480 defendants during
1996. Criminal cases were concluded against 61,434 defendants during
1996. Eighty-six percent (or 53,076) of all defendants were convicted.
Most felony convictions were obtained by guilty plea (91%).
- Drug defendants
comprised 41% of felony convictions; defendants charged with property
and public-order offenses comprised 26% and 27%, respectively, of the
felony convictions; and defendants charged with violent offenses comprised
the remaining 6% of felony convictions.
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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 (564K) | Ascii file (no tables)
( 174K)
Introduction Acrobat file (98K)
Chapter 1: Prosecution Acrobat file
(110K) | Zipped archive of 5 spreadsheets
(17K)
Chapter 2: Pretrial release Acrobat
file (145K)| Zipped archive of
10 spreadsheets(38K)
Chapter 3: Adjudication Acrobat file
(104K) | Zipped archive of 5 spreadsheets
(19K)
Chapter 4: Sentencing Acrobat file
(110K) | Zipped archive of 6 spreadsheets
(24K)
Chapter 5: Appeals Acrobat file
(99K) | Zipped archive of 5 spreadsheets
(20K)
Chapter 6: Corrections Acrobat file
(177K) | Zipped archive of 13 spreadsheets
(55K)
Methodology Acrobat file (134K)
About
the source data | Codebooks
& data sets |
Case processing data for 1996
by Federal district are available in spreadsheet format in the
Crime & Justice Electronic Data Abstracts.
Interactive
tabulations of Federal criminal case processing data are available from
the Federal Justice Statistics
Resource Center.
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