Plea bargaining in the United States, 1978
By: principal investigators, Herbert S. Miller, William McDonald, and James A. Cramr
Series: ICPSR -- 7775; ICPSR (Series) -- 7775
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Plea bargaining
Description: This study was conducted at the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Georgetown University Law Center. The study consists of three files. The first contains information from case files in six United States cities. The variables include demographic information on the accused and the victim, past record of the accused, seriousness of the offense, pleas entered, speed of trial process, and sentencing. The second file contains information gathered from in-court observations focused on the formal supervision of plea bargaining by judges. The third file consists of the results of a plea bargaining simulation game.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1978.

United States.

File 1: 3,397 case files, 63 variables. File 2: 711 court observations, approximately 33 variables. File 3: 479 cases, 17 variables.