NCJ Number
186181
Date Published
November 2001
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This 2-disk CD-ROM from the Federal Justice Statistics Program provides the Federal Justice database for 1999 so that users may conduct their own data analyses of Federal criminal justice system data.
Abstract
This 2-disk CD-ROM program from the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) contains the 1999 Federal Justice database in the form of 23 Standard Analysis Files and 2 supplemental data sets in ASCII format. Designed so that users may conduct their own analyses of the Federal criminal justice system’s data, this CD-ROM also includes a Guide to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Program, a 5.0 version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat files of the FJSP’s main publication, the “1999 Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics,” 1999 data codebooks, attachments, and variable lists, and documentation and SAS program code describing how the FJSP creates its data analysis files and tables from data provided by contributing Federal criminal justice agencies. Each component of this CD-ROM is found in its own directory and there is an electronic data dictionary for 1999 as well. Within the Guide directory are files to install to use a Microsoft Access runtime version of the Guide to the FJSP and instructions on how to install, use, and navigate the Guide and Adobe Acrobat. The Codebook directory contains a codebook of variables and values for data agencies including the United states Marshals Service (USMS), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), Pretrial Services Agency (PSA), Federal Offenders Under Supervision (FPSIS), U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), Federal Criminal Appeals Data APPEALS), and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The Standard Analysis Files (SAF) directory contains nine subdirectories, one for each of these data agencies. Each of these subdirectories contains the FJSP standard analysis data files used to create tables for the Compendium and used in other FJSP publications. Within the USSC subdirectory are two supplemental data files, SC99GUID and SC99STAT, that can be used in conjunction with the primary analysis file SC99OUT, containing information on defendants sentenced under the Guidelines. The PGM_DOC directory houses the SAS program code and documentation about the procedures used to process data provided by the contributing Federal justice agencies. The goals of the FJSP are to provide uniform case processing statistics across different stages of the Federal criminal justice system to individuals who use this CD-ROM.