Comparing court case processing in nine courts, 1979-1980
By: principal investigators, Peter Nardulli, James Eisenstein and Roy B. Fleming
Series: ICPSR -- 8621; ICPSR (Series) -- 8621
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 825
Subjects: Courts; Officials and employees; Court administration
Description: This study looks at the characteristics of officials who are involved in court case processing. Data were collected on the cases and defendants, the officials involved in the cases, personality characteristics of the officials and the perceptions that these officials have of each other.
Notes: Survey data.

Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1979-1980.

Questionnaires and official records.

United States.

United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice, 81-IJ-CX-0027.

Card Image format.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangualar ; case count: 7,475 ; variable count: 264 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 27.

Three counties in three states with populations between 100,000 and 1,000,000 in Michigan, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Universe: Defendants in Michigan, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

Nardulli, Peter F., Eisenstein, James, and Roy B. Fleming. Sentencing as a sociopolitical process: environmental, contextual, and individual level dimensions. (Unpublished final report submitted to NIJ, June 30, 1983).

Eisenstein, James, Nardulli, Peter F., and Roy B. Flemming. Interim report: explaining and assessing criminal case disposition: a comparative study of nine counties. (Unpublished report submitted to NIJ, August 31, 1982).