Details

Subject(s)

• Plea bargaining—Florida—Dade County [Browse]
• Pleas (Criminal procedure)—Florida—Dade County [Browse]

Related name

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 7710. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 7710

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This study reports on the implementation in Dade County, Florida, of a proposal to involve, on a voluntary basis, victims, defendants, and police in a judicial plea negotiation conference. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, United States Department of Justice. Parts 1-3, Defendants, Victims, and Police files, consist of responses to questionnaires given to defendants, victims, and police. The questionnaires were administered during 20-minute interviews, conducted after the case had been completed. The interview instruments were designed to collect data on three major issues: (1) the extent to which respondents reported participation in the processing of their cases, (2) respondents' knowledge of the way their cases were processed, and (3) respondents' attitudes toward the disposition of their cases and toward the criminal justice system. Part 4 is the Conference Data File. During the pretrial settlement conference, an observer wrote down in sequence as much as possible of the verbal behavior. After the session, the observer made some subjective ratings, provided descriptive data about the conclusion of the session, and classified comments into one of the following categories: (1) Facts of the Case, (2) Prior Record, (3) Law and Practices, (4) Maximum Sentence, (5) Prediction of Trial Outcome, (6) Conference Precedent, (7) Personal Background History, and (8) Recommendations. Information in Part 5, the Case Information Data File, was drawn from court records and includes type of case, number of charges, sentence type, sentence severity (stated and perceived), seriousness of offense, date of arrest, date of arraignment, date of conference, prior incarcerations, and defendant background.... Cf.: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/07710.xml

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Type of data

5 data files + machine-readable documentation (text) + OSIRIS dictionary + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system

Geographic coverage

Florida, United States

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. NationalInstitute of Justice. 76-NI-99-0088

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Contents

Part 1: Defendant Data File; Part 2: Victim Data File; Part 3: Police Data File; Part 4: Conference Data File; Part 5: Case Information Data File

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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