Federal Justice Statistics Program: Criminal Appeals Cases in Courts of Appeals -- Terminated, 2008

The data contain records of criminal appeals cases terminated in United States Courts of Appeals during fiscal year 2008. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts' (AOUSC) Court of Appeals file. These contain variables on the nature of the criminal appeal, the underlying offense, and the disposition of the appeal. An appeal can be filed by the government or the offender, and the appellant can appeal the sentence, the verdict, or both sentence and verdict. Appeals may be terminated on the merits or on procedural grounds. Of those that are terminated on the merits, the district court ruling may be affirmed, reversed, remanded to criminal court, or dismissed. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC 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, Tables 6.1-6.5. Variables containing 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.

本数据集包含2008财政年度美国上诉法院审结的刑事上诉案件记录。该数据集基于美国法院行政办公室（AOUSC）的上诉法院文件构建而成，涵盖刑事上诉性质、原审罪名及上诉处理结果等变量。上诉可由政府或罪犯提起，上诉人可针对判决、裁决，或同时针对判决与裁决提出上诉。上诉案件可基于实体理由或程序理由审结；基于实体理由审结的案件中，地区法院裁决可能被维持、推翻、发回刑事法院重审或驳回。数据文件包含原始AOUSC文件中的变量，以及表示数据子集的附加分析变量（即“SAF变量”），这些SAF变量与《联邦司法统计纲要》第6.1至6.5表中报告的统计数据相关。为保护个人身份信息，包含姓名、社会保障号码等内容的变量已被替换为空白值，日期字段中的日部分也经过脱敏处理。该数据集是华盛顿特区城市研究所（Urban Institute）与司法统计局联合设计的系列数据集之一，其数据及文档由城市研究所编制。