Sentencing Outcomes in Felony Courts Survey

The agency arranged for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research to prepare the data and documentation for public use. This series contains data about criminal justice administration for cities and counties with an average population of 1.1 million.

The data concern sentences handed down in courts of general jurisdiction for the sel ected crimes of homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, and drug trafficking. The file has data about the criminal charges, type of sentence imposed and terms of the prison sentence, characteristics of the offense and the criminal, and how the case was processed. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).