Effectiveness of client specific planning as an alternative sentence, 1981-1982
Subtitle: Washington, DC, and Fairfax, Montgomery, and Prince George Counties
By: principal investigator, William H. Clements
Series: ICPSR -- 8943; ICPSR (Series) -- 8943
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Community-based corrections; Criminals; Rehabilitation
Description: This data collection was designed to evaluate the Client Specific Planning (CSP) program of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA). The CSP program offers non-incarcerative sentencing options and alternatives prepared for judges and presented by an NCIA caseworker. The study measures the impact of the program on sentence length, sentence severity, the effectiveness of the program at diverting serious felony offenders from incarceration, and the rate, type, seriousness, and timing of recidivism in a 24-month post-sentence risk period. Variables are provided for each defendant on demographic characteristics, criminal history, prior counseling experiences, prior incarceration, charges and dispositions of the recidivist arrests, and types of sentencing alternatives recommended in CSP.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: October 1, 1981-September 30, 1982. Data collected: 1985-1986.

Official court and police records.

Event/transaction data.

Washington, D.C., Fairfax, Montgomery, and Prince George counties.

United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. 85-IJ-CX-0047.

Card Image data format.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 258 ; variable count: 436 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 15.

Clements, William H. The effectiveness of client specific planning as an alternative sentence. (Unpublished Ph.D dissertation, University of Delaware, 1987)