Firearms violence and the Michigan felony firearm law
Subtitle: Detroit, 1976-1978
By: principal investigators, Colin Loftin and Milton Heumann
Series: ICPSR -- 8509; ICPSR (Series) -- 8509
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: 25242
Subjects: Firearms; Law and legislation; Violent crimes; Administration of Criminal justice; Detroit (Mich.). Recorder's Court
Description: The purpose of this study was to estimate the impact of the Michigan Firearm Law on the processing of defendants in Detroit's Recorder's Court. Most variables in the study focus on the defendant and court processing decisions made at different stages. Special attention was given to determining the presence and use of firearms and other weapons in each offense. Variables included are gender of the defendant, race of the defendant, original charges, type of counsel, amount of bail, felony firearm charged, number of convictions, race of victim, firearm used, judge, and sentence.
Notes: Event/transaction data.

Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class III.

Chronological coverage: 1976-1978; Data collected: June 1978-April 1980.

Documents and records of the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Wayne Count [Detroit], Michigan and the Office of Court Clerk, Recorder's Court of Detroit, Michigan.

Detroit Metropolitan Area.

United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. 78-NI-AX-0021, and 79-NI-AX-0094.

OSIRIS and Card Image formats.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 8,414 ; variable count: 73 ; LRECL: 175 ; records per case: 3.

Universe: All defendants listed in Recorder's Court Docket Control records that were arraigned for a violent felony.

Heumann, Milton, and Colin Loftin. "Mandatory Sentencing and the Abolition of Plea Bargaining." Law and society review, 13 (1979), 393-430.

Loftin, Colin, Milton Heumann, and David McDowall. "Mandatory Sentencing and Firearms Violence: Evaluating and Alternative to Gun Control." Law and society review, 17 (1983), 287-318.