Prosecution of felony arrests, 1982
Subtitle: Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C.
By: principal investigator, Abt Associates, Inc
Series: ICPSR -- 8717; ICPSR (Series) -- 8717
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Arrest; Statistics; Prosecution; Criminal statistics
Description: This study provides statistical information on how prosecutors and the courts disposed of criminal cases involving adults arrested for felony crimes in two individual urban jurisdictions, Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C. Cases in the data files were initiated or filed in 1982. Both the Washington, D.C. file and the Portland file contain information on all felony arrests (which include arrests declined as well as those filed), cases filed, and cases indicted. Sentencing information is provided in the Portland file but is not available for Washington D.C.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: January 1982-December 1982.

Public Domain PROMIS system records for the cities of Portland and Washington, D.C.

Event/transaction data.

Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C.

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

LRECL data format. For reasons of confidentiality, the police department identification number, the individual's true name, and the circuit attorney's manual case file number have been blanked. This is part of a larger three-part study.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Washington, D.C. ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 11,185 ; variable count: 18 ; LRECL: 108 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Portland ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 6,146 ; variable count: 30 ; LRECL: 180 ; records per case: 1.

All information stored on a jurisdiction's PROMIS system for felony cases initiated in 1982, cases initiated in 1981, and cases initiated in the two or more years after 1982.

Brosi, Kathleen. A cross-city comparison of felony case processing. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

Boland, Barbara, and Elizabeth Brady. The prosecution of felony arrests, 1980. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985.

Boland, Barbara, and Ronald Stones. The prosecution of felony arrests, 1981. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.