Federal Justice Statistics Program: Charges Filed Against Defendants in Criminal Cases in District Court -- Terminated, 1999 [United States]

The data contain records of charges filed against defendants whose cases were terminated by United States attorneys in United States district court during fiscal year 1999. The data are charge-level records, and more than one charge may be filed against a single defendant. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central Charge file. The charge-level data may be linked to defendant-level data (extracted from the EOUSA Central System file) through the CS_SEQ variable, and it should be noted that some defendants may not have any charges other than the lead charge appearing on the defendant-level record. The Central Charge and Central System data contain variables from the original EOUSA files as well as additional analysis variables, or "SAF" variables, that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security Number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.

本数据集收录了1999财年期间，在美国联邦地区法院由美国检察官办结案件的被告所涉指控的相关记录。本数据集为指控层面数据，单个被告可被提起多项指控。本数据集基于美国检察官执行办公室（Executive Office for United States Attorneys, EOUSA）中央指控文件构建。通过CS_SEQ变量，可将本指控层面数据与从EOUSA中央系统文件中提取的被告层面数据进行关联；需注意，部分被告除被告层面记录中列明的主指控外，无其他额外指控。中央指控文件与中央系统文件包含源自原始EOUSA文件的变量，以及用于标识数据子集的额外分析变量——即“SAF变量”。此类SAF变量与《联邦司法统计汇编》（Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics）中披露的统计指标相关。为保护个人身份信息，所有包含识别信息的字段（如姓名、社会保险号）均已替换为空值，同时日期字段中的日期部分也已做脱敏处理。本数据集为城市研究所（Urban Institute，华盛顿特区）与美国司法统计局联合设计的系列数据之一，数据集及配套文档均由城市研究所编制。