DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09671.v1
title: Criminal Justice Outcomes of Male Offenders in 14 Jurisdictions in the United States, 1985-1988
title: Version 1

description: This data collection provides information on multiple 
 prosecutions for individual offenders. The data are intended for use in 
 the exploration and description of relationships among the various 
 elements of the adjudication process (characteristics of the offender 
 and offense and decisions made by various actors in the prosecution and 
 sentencing of the offenders). The sampled incidents were drawn from two 
 types of offenses: residential burglary and armed robbery. The 
 collection includes only those incidents involving male offenders who 
 were previously unknown to their victims and who were facing 
 adjudication in adult court. The data collection instrument probed five 
 areas for each offender and incident sampled: A. Related Incidents 
 (information to identify all other incidents for which processing 
 overlapped that of the sampled incident), B. Incident Description 
 (information about the criminal incident itself, such as date and 
 location of the incident, date of arrest, victims, weapons, 
 accomplices, witnesses, and evidence), C. Adjudication Process 
 (information such as bond amount, legal representation, adjudication 
 events and outcomes, date of sentencing, and type and length of 
 incarceration), D. Defendant (information about the defendant himself, 
 including date of birth, race/descent, and employment status), and E. 
 Prior Record (information about the defendant's record, such as his age 
 at first arrest and first incarceration, the number of times he was 
incarcerated, and history of drug and/or alcohol abuse).
description: The jurisdictions to be surveyed were selected according to 
 three criteria: (1) the inclusion of at least one site in each of the 
 four major census regions, (2) the inclusion of approximately two sites 
 per state, and (3) the inclusion of at least one site in New York City. 
 Within each site, a random sample of armed robbery and residential 
burglary cases was selected.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Montgomery, MD (Washington, DC)
DS2: Baltimore City, MD
DS3: San Diego, CA
DS4: Sacramento, CA
DS5: Los Angeles, CA
DS6: Tarrant, TX (Fort Worth)
DS7: Dallas, TX
DS8: Manhattan, NY
DS9: Queens, NY
DS10: Wayne, MI (Detroit)
DS11: Cook, IL (Chicago)
DS12: Jackson, MO (Kansas City)
DS13: St. Louis City, MO
DS14: Fulton, GA (Atlanta)
DS15: Codebook for All Parts
DS16: SAS Data Definition Statements for All Parts
DS17: SPSS Data Definition Statements for All Parts
description: Criminal cases presented to a prosecutor and involving 
armed robbery or residential burglary.
description: In this hierarchical dataset, an offender may have up 
 to three record types. The first-level record type (present for every 
 offender) includes data taken from sections A through E of the main 
 survey form. A single case may have supplementary B and C records. For 
 first-level records, there are 661 variables and a maximum record 
 length of 1,596. For second-level B records, there are 88 variables and 
 a maximum record length of 147. For third-level C records, there are 
235 variables and a maximum record length of 556.