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Traditionally, criminal research on a national scale has relied primarily on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), a tool with several weaknesses: (1) it contains no unique personal identifiers, prec
Represents return status within three years of release among incarcerated individuals released to the community during a particular calendar year. Each data record represents a release to the communit
The article's primary objective is to shed light on data from the practical reality of custody hearings, within a certain geographic and social context, revealing complexities and deta
