Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, [United States], 2013-2014

This collection contains information on federal criminal cases sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The data files include all cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2013, and were assessed as constitutional. Constitutionality compares each case's sentencing date, circuit, district, and judge to provide uniformity in reporting the cases. In 1999, the United States Sentencing Commission added more variables from its databases to this collection, so the data are now provided in two files. Several variables iterate to include multiple occurrences of the same event. Part 1, Main Data, includes all noniterating variables plus the highest occurrences of each iterating variable. Part 2, Supplementary Data, includes the remaining iterations.

本数据集收录依据1984年《量刑改革法案》所附《量刑指南与政策声明》作出判决的联邦刑事案件相关信息。本次数据文件涵盖美国量刑委员会（United States Sentencing Commission）接收的全部案件，这些案件的判决日期介于2012年10月1日至2013年9月30日之间，且经合宪性审查合格。合宪性审查环节会比对每起案件的判决日期、所属巡回法院、辖区及承办法官，以保障案件报送的统一性。1999年，美国量刑委员会从自有数据库中增补更多变量至本数据集，因此当前数据以两份文件形式提供。部分变量采用迭代形式，用于记录同一事件的多次发生情况。第一部分：主数据集，包含所有非迭代变量，以及各迭代变量的最高频次出现项。第二部分：补充数据集，包含其余迭代项。