DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09296.v3
title: Federal Justice Statistics Program Data, 1978-1994: [United States]
title: Version 3

description: Data in this collection examine the processing of federal offenders. The Cases Terminated files (Parts 1-3 and 25-28) contain information about defendants in criminal cases filed in the United States Federal District Court and terminated in the calendar years indicated. Defendants in criminal cases may either be individuals or corporations, and there is one record for each defendant in each case terminated. Information on court proceedings, date the case was filed, date the case was terminated, most serious charge, and reason for termination is included. The Docket and Reporting System files (Parts 4-7, 31-34, and 42) include information on suspects in investigative matters that took an hour or more of a United States Attorney's time with one of the following outcomes: (1) the United States Attorney declined to prosecute, (2) the case was filed in Federal District Court, or (3) the matter was disposed by a United States magistrate. Codes for each disposition and change of status are also provided. The Pretrial Services data (Parts 8, 22, 43, and 47) present variables on the circuit, district, and office where the defendant was charged, type of action, year of birth and sex of the defendant, major offense charge, and results of initial and detention hearings. The Parole Decisions data (Part 9) contain information from various parole hearings such as court date, appeal action, reopening decision, sentence, severity of sentence, offense, and race and ethnicity of the defendant. The Offenders Under Supervision files (Parts 15-16 and 37-40) focus on convicted offenders sentenced to probation supervision and federal prisoners released to parole supervision. The Federal Prisoner files (Parts 18 and 20) supply data on when an offender entered and was released from confinement, as well as the amount of time served for any given offense. The Administrative Office of the United States Courts data files (Parts 44, 52, and 53) contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in Federal District Court and terminated in the calendar years indicated. There is one record for each defendant in each case. Variables include the date the case was filed, offense level, AO (Administrative Office) codes, and disposition date. The Bureau of Prisons data (both the Master and Detail files, Parts 45, 46, and 54-57 -- formerly known as the Federal Prisoner files) contain records of sentenced prisoners admitted to or released from federal prison during 1992-1994. These files consist of separate records for each prisoner's commitment to federal prison, and for each sentence imposed on a prisoner for a given commitment to federal prison. The Central System (CS) and Central Charge (CC) files of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) include information about suspects in criminal matters and defendants in criminal cases in 1993-1994. Each defendant in a criminal matter has a master Central System record (Parts 50 and 51) and may have one or more Central Charge records (Parts 48 and 49). The Federal Probation/Supervision Data files (Parts 58 and 59) provide information on supervision procedures and the sequence of events and proceedings in 1992-1994 from the time a case was opened for supervision until the case was terminated. These include reports of parole violations, transfers of supervision to other districts, and case removals due to, for example, rearrest or hospitalization. The Sentencing Commission data (Parts 60 and 61) contain information on federal criminal cases sentenced in 1992-1994 under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Standardized missing values.; Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Federal Cases Terminated, 1984 
 DS2: Federal Cases Terminated, 1985 
 DS3: Federal Cases Terminated, 1986 
 DS4: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, 1983 
 DS5: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, 1984 
 DS6: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, 1985, Part 1 
 DS7: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, 1985, Part 2 
 DS8: Federal Pretrial Services Data, 1983-1986 
 DS9: Federal Parole Decisions Data, 1978-1986 
 DS10: Match Index File 
 DS12: SAS Data Definition Statements for Federal Docket and Reporting System Data 
 DS13: SAS Data Definition Statements for Federal Pretrial Services Data, 1983-1986 
 DS15: Offenders on Supervision for Calendar Years 1984 Through 1986 
 DS16: Offenders Who Terminated Supervision During Calendar Years 1984 Through 1986 
 DS17: SAS Data Definition Statements for Offenders on Supervision Data (Parts 15 and 16) 
 DS18: Federal Prisoner Data, 1984-1991, Part 1 
 DS19: SAS Data Definition Statements for Federal Prisoner Data, 1984-1991, Part 1 
 DS20: Federal Prisoner Data, 1984-1991, Part 2 
 DS21: SAS Data Definition Statements for Federal Prisoner Data, 1984-1991, Part 2 
 DS22: Federal Pretrial Services Data, 1987-1990 
 DS23: SAS Data Definition Statements for Federal Pretrial Services Data, 1987-1990, Part 1 
 DS24: SAS Data Definition Statements for Federal Pretrial Services Data, 1987-1990, Part 2 
 DS25: Federal Cases Terminated, Calendar Year 1987 
 DS26: Federal Cases Terminated, Calendar Year 1988 
 DS27: Federal Cases Terminated, Calendar Year 1989 
 DS28: Federal Cases Terminated, Calendar Year 1990 
 DS31: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, Fiscal Year 1986-1987 
 DS32: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, Fiscal Year 1988 
 DS33: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, Fiscal Year 1989 
 DS34: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, Fiscal Year 1990 
 DS35: SAS Data Definition Statements for Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, Fiscal Years 1986-1990 
 DS37: Offenders Under Supervision Data, Fiscal Year 1987 
 DS38: Offenders Under Supervision Data, Fiscal Year 1988 
 DS39: Offenders Under Supervision Data, Fiscal Year 1989 
 DS40: Offenders Under Supervision Data, Fiscal Year 1990 
 DS41: SAS Data Definition Statements for Offenders Under Supervision Data, Fiscal Years 1987-1990 
 DS42: Federal Docket and Reporting System Data, Fiscal Year 1992 
 DS43: Federal Pretrial Services Agency Data, 1992 
 DS44: Administrative Office of the United States Courts Data, Calendar Year 1992 
 DS45: Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Master File, 1992 
 DS46: Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Detail File, 1992 
 DS47: Federal Pretrial Services Agency Data, 1993 
 DS48: Central Charge Data, 1993 
 DS49: Central Charge Data, 1994 
 DS50: Central System Data, 1993 
 DS51: Central System Data, 1994 
 DS52: Administrative Office of the United States Courts Data, Calendar Year 1993 
 DS53: Administrative Office of the United States Courts Data, Calendar Year 1994 
 DS54: Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Detail File, 1993 
 DS55: Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Detail File, 1994 
 DS56: Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Master File, 1993 
 DS57: Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Master File, 1994 
 DS58: Federal Probation/Supervision Data, 1993 
 DS59: Federal Probation/Supervision Data, 1994 
 DS60: Sentencing Commission Data, 1993 
 DS61: Sentencing Commission Data, 1994
description: Federal Justice Statistics Program Data Series
description: (1) For users who wish to follow particular defendants as they progress through various federal agencies, a Match Index File (Part 10) is included. To track particular defendants, one must match records from two or more data files. The Match Index File contains the sequential record numbers and case identification numbers for all individual cases. The codebook provides further information on using the Match Index File with SAS and SPSS commercial software packages. (2) The part numbers are not in consecutive order. (3) There are undocumented codes in each data file. (4) The Bureau of Prison files (Parts 45, 46, and 54-57) comprise two types of records, Inmate Master records and Inmate Detail records. Each prisoner has one or more Inmate Master records, containing summary information about the individual's term of incarceration. A prisoner with more than one commitment to prison (e.g., a returned parole violator) will have more than one Inmate Master record. One or more Inmate Detail records, containing detailed information about individual sentence counts, is associated with each Inmate Master record. (5) Parts 45 and 46 (Inmate Master and Detail files) cover 1992 and a portion of 1993, thus overlapping with the data covered in Part 54, Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Detail File, 1993, and Part 56, Bureau of Prisons Data: Inmate Master File, 1993. (6) The data in Parts 60 and 61, Sentencing Commission Data for 1993 and 1994, can also be found in MONITORING OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL SENTENCES, 1987-1995 (ICPSR 9317). (7) The codebook for the 1993 and 1994 data is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Website. There is also a hardcopy codebook for the 1978-1992 data. For some of the data files, there is no documentation other than the data definition statements.
description: For the Docket and Reporting System data files, the universe is all suspects in federal offenses on whose case the United States Attorney spent one hour or more. For the Pretrial Services data, the universe is all federal arrestees interviewed for or granted pretrial release. For the Parole Decisions data, the universe is all offenders convicted, sentenced to prison, and eligible for parole. For the Offenders Under Supervision files, the universe is all offenders convicted and sentenced to probation and those released from prison to parole supervision. For the Bureau of Prisons data, the universe is all federal prisoners entering the federal prison system. For the Administrative Office data, the universe is all defendants in criminal cases filed in the United States Federal District Court and terminated in the calendar years indicated. For the Central System and Central Charge data files, the universe is suspects in criminal matters and defendants in criminal cases. Suspects in criminal matters are limited to those suspects whose matters were not declined immediately by United States attorneys. Defendants in criminal cases are limited to those handled by United States attorneys. For the Federal Probation/Supervision data, the universe consists of the offenders who are entering, leaving, or on federal supervision, including probation, parole, or supervised release. For the Sentencing Commission data, the universe is all federal criminal court cases entering the court system between 1987 and 1994.