Details

Related name

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

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 3923. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 3923

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 aimed to understand the extent to which punishment is influenced by the larger social context in which it occurs by examining both the main and conditioning influence of community context on individual sentences. The primary research questions for this study were (1) Does community context affect sentencing outcomes for criminal defendants net of the influence of defendant and case characteristics? and (2) Does community context condition the influences of defendant age, race, and sex on sentencing outcomes? Data from the 1998 State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) were merged with a unique county-level dataset that provided information on the characteristics of the counties in which defendants were adjudicated. County-level data included unemployment, crime rates, sex ratio, age structure, religious group affiliation, and political orientation.

Notes

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

Type of data

1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system

Geographic coverage

United States

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. NationalInstitute of Justice 2002-IJ-CX-0003

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

Universe: Thirty-nine counties in the United States for which 1998 State Court Processing Data were available.

Contents

Part 1: Data File

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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